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His Greatest Gamble (1934)

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Instance
Theme name: The Chase 2
Borrowed from: The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
Start time: 0:29:44
End time: 0:30:05
Total duration: 0:00:21
Page #: no score available
Measure #: no score available
Scene: no score available
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 152
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Montage of Philip's escape
Description: A different chase theme (also from Most Dangerous Game) is used in the second half of the montage; this one is dark, ponderous and slow (without the exciting gallop rhythms); onscreen we see London, a boat in the ocean, New York, and more wanted posters; the ending of this cue overlaps with source piano music in the film
Analysis: There are two recurring motives in this cue: a strong, syncopated descending gesture in the lower instruments and an upward-reaching gesture in the strings; the descending gesture is harmonized with parallel seventh chords
Tags

boat | dark | frantic | leading man | montage | montage | parallelism | prisoner | transcribed by ear | traveling

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