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Bernard Herrmann must have heard Les Baxter's score


Parts of it are very similar to Herrmann's score for Vertigo.

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Yes indeed. I think Hitchcock and/or Taylor probably saw it also.

And something kept reminding me of LeGrand's music for the chess game in The Thomas Crown Affair.


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