thegoldenage3060 wrote:
if the labels continue on this path, maybe one day I can hear also KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS smile.gif


That would be marvellous, if it was ever possible, because the music for KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS - another elusive Rozsa '40s title - is brilliant. It includes some of the most ferociously dramatic music I've ever heard from Rozsa when Burt Lancaster, perfectly cast as the aggressive central charcter, receives corporal punishment by means of the cat o' nine tails (I had no idea that in the late '40s British prisons still inflicted such punishment). I also noticed a snatch of the "Boat House Waltz" from A WOMAN'S VENGEANCE (composed the previous year) being played by a street pianola. The film itself is excellent; compelling and richly atmospheric with a sense of a rush toward inevitable tragedy. Unfortunately the final minutes change direction for a wholly unconvincing Hollywood-style ending.