[+] Larson, Randall D. "Reused Music." In Music from the House of Hammer: Music in the Hammer Horror Films 1950-1980, 15-16. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 1996.
Musical self-borrowing was a popular method of scoring in America's Universal Pictures, which during the 1940s and 1950s often scored entire films (Erle C. Kenton: House of Dracula, Jack Arnold: Revenge of the Creature) with little more than tracked cues from their music library. Nevertheless, Hammer only sporadically reused their music tracks; fewer than a dozen Hammer films contain credited reused cues. Choosing to reuse music often arose from deadline pressures and budgetary pressures.
Works: Humphrey Searle: score to The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas (15); Benjamin Frankel: score to The Curse of the Werewolf (15).
Index Classifications: 1900s, Film
Contributed by: Kathleen Widden
