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Thread #119333   Message #2587465
Posted By: GUEST,.gargoyle
12-Mar-09 - 05:19 PM
Thread Name: Films with sea music
Subject: RE: Films with sea music
Unable to post with Mudcat Links so - here is a small list.

composer Herbert Stothart's use of a male chorus singing the traditional "Dead Man's Chest" song in the opening moments of the 1934 "Treasure Island."

"What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor?" was part of the score of Burt Lancaster's 1952 swashbuckler, "The Crimson Pirate."

Errol Flynn's privateers burst into song ("Strike for the Shores of Dover!") in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score for 1940's "The Sea Hawk,"

Tyrone Power was heralded at the start of 1942's "The Black Swan" by Alfred Newman by "Heave Ho! Lubbers Avast! Mates Ahoy!"

Cole Porter wrote an entire score for MGM's musical "The Pirate" (1948)

Disney's animated "Peter Pan" (1953) features Captain Hook's crew singing "A Pirate's Life"

Two Years Before the Mast

Sincerely
Gargoyle