301 BLIND

Time flies and it’s time to listen again to a programme focusing on such an important issue. Some great films here and great scores.

Another revisi,super film music, the subject of this programme makes me count my blessings …… i can see these (some great ) films

Some linked programmes ...... edvard Grieg (some music from peer gynt used in son of lassie) / 154 ...... Elmer Bernstein / 77, 78, 253, 358 ....... Victor mature / 36 ......the year 1939 / 341 ...... the year 1949 / 348 ...... Henry Mancini / 113, 114 ....... Dimitri Tiomkin / 282 ....... Jay & Jerry Livingston / 61 ...... disabilitys / 111 ...... Jerry Goldsmith / 27, 38, 444 ...... Audrey Hepburn / 349 ...... Marvin Hamlisch / 15, 183 ...... Victor Young ( Around the world in 80 days / 297, Omar khayan / 237, Rio grande / 148, Shane / 339, the searching Wind / 311, written on the Wind / 311 ) ....... Jane Eyre, John Williams / Bernard Herrmann, Dario marianelli/waiting for mr Rochester/205 ) ....... Patrick Doyle, all is true / 374 ....... Carl Davis / 374 ....... ray Charles sings “The Cincinnati Kid” / 182, 316 ........

I was struggling to find a appropriate opening for a programme highlighting an important subject, our host Tony found it for me with his closing comment ... “We have so much to be greatfull for” ... beginning with “hit the road Jack” from the film 🎥 RAY (2004), written by Percy Mayfield, who also recorded it (first) in 1960, Ray Charles had the hit in 1961 (Craig Armstrong scored the film) ... Blind (the final leap, “bird in a cage” by Amy Lee, Dave eggar, Chuck Palmer, sung by (I did not guess who) Robert Redford ... the 1990 TV. Movie, Treasure Island (blind pew) Paddy Maloney (the chieftans) the film starred charlton Heston and was written, produced & directed by his son, Frazer Clarke Heston ... Scent of a Woman (tract house ginch) Thomas Newman ... 1963 The Great Escape (Blythe) Elmer Bernstein ... WB 1955 Land of the Pharaohs (vashtar) Dimitri Tiomkin ... Paramount 1949 Samson and Delilah /Victor Young ... WB 1939 Dark Victory (scenes with George Brent & Bette Davis) Max Steiner (AAN ... best picture, Bette Davis & maxie) ... 1967 Wait Untill Dark by Henry Mancini, Livingston/Evans ... UA 1931 Charles Chaplin’s City Lights (the flower girl / la violettera) b,y Jose Padilla (played by Carl Davis) (a Masterpiece for all concerned) ... MGM 1945 Son Of Lassie (leading the blind) Herbert Stothart & Mario Castel Nuovo-Tedesco (uncredited) after the mention of two such illustrious composers I pulled the film from my library (wonderfull watch) ... 1962 The Miricle Worker (epilogue Helen with her teacher) Lawrence Rosenthal ... La Ligne Droite (yannig and Leila) Patrick Doyle ... MGM 1966 A Patch Of Blue (finale-love the equaliser) Jerry Goldsmith AAN ... 2011 Jane Eyre (my Edward and I) Dario Marianelli ... closing with Ice Castles “looking through the eyes of love” by Marvin Hamlisch & Carol Bayer Sager, Sung by Melissa Manchester .......... another great programme, thanks tony ... ....... a little bit of trivia found on Wikipedia, the ship used in charlton Huston’s Treasure Island was the one built for MGMs 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty, sadly she sank during Hurricane Sandy 2012 .............