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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

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Instance
Theme name: Happy Land
Composer: Leonard P. Breedlove
Start time: 1:19:56
End time: 1:21:17
Total duration: 0:01:21
Page #: NIS
Measure #: NIS
Scene: not in score
Key: Eb
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 63
Solo Instrument: female voice, organ
Description
On-screen: Mortimer with the taxi driver
Description: The aunts sing all three verses of "There is a Happy Land" off-screen, accompanied by an organ
Analysis: At 1:17:21 in the film, we see that Aunt Martha is holding a hymnbook named "Hymns for Creative Living" - Happy Land is actually not in this hymnbook
Tags

aunt | brother | calm | conversing | crazy person | doctor | driver | funeral | groom | hymn | leading lady | leading man | murderer | on-screen music | score to source | singing | source music | street