14 June 2008

She!

She, the 1935 film of H. Rider Haggard's novel of the same name starred Helen (later Congresswoman) Gahagan and Randolph Scott.

The soundtrack by Max Steiner is beautifully melodramatic - the title track with its female voices calls to mind the early Star Trek theme music (was it season 1 that featured the vocal aaah--aaaah?). Actually, I think the folks who did Star Trek's incidental music owe a lot to Steiner, who also composed the music for King Kong (1933), Gone With the Wind (1939) and A Summer Place (1959).

She: Part I Part II

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Helen Gahagan, of course, was the sworn enemy of Richard Nixon and grandmother to actress Ileana Douglas...