Edward Johnson writes…
In Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) James Stewart tries to get a woman he saw in the street resemble a woman whom he’d fallen in love with but who had died. In what was an elaborate murder set-up, she was played in both parts by Kim Novak and in the clip where she finally resembles the dead woman, Bernard Herrmann’s superb score takes over in what has been described as the “Scene d’Amour” …
In the first of Hammer’s Dracula films (1958) Christopher Lee comes to a sticky end at the hands of Peter Cushing while James Bernard’s manic score couldn’t be bettered in accompanying the disintegrating vampire Count …
All great fun!