Murray Cutter
Nascimento : 1902-03-15, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Morte : 1983-04-19
História
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Murray Cutter (15 March 1902, Nice, France – 19 April 1983, Burbank, California) was a versatile Hollywood orchestrator, working mainly for film composer Max Steiner, with over 150 credits spanning the mid-thirties to early 1960s. Nevertheless, he remains relatively unknown except for the much-loved original arrangement of Judy Garland's Over the Rainbow, which continues to be sampled by modern filmmakers. Similar to fellow arranger Alexander Courage, Cutter's name has tended to be overshadowed by the popularity of the composers with whom he was most associated.
Cutter was unusual among orchestrators who tended to specialize, in that he was adept in all genres: musicals (New Moon, Kismet, The Desert Song); romantic drama (Waterloo Bridge, A Summer Place); adventure (Northwest Passage, The Caine Mutiny); family/comedy (National Velvet, Sugarfoot); suspense (The Picture of Dorian Gray, Key Largo); epics ("Helen of Troy"); and westerns (The Treasure of Sierra Madre, Johnny Belinda and The Searchers).
An early assignment were the vocal arrangements for the 1937 film version of Rosalie, which ten years before had been orchestrated for Broadway by Steiner. At MGM Cutter worked for Arthur Freed and Mervyn LeRoy on The Wizard of Oz. Under the loose musical direction of Herbert Stothart he contributed the "metallic sound" for the Tin Woodman's If I Only Had a Heart. Cutter told Oz historian Aljean Harmetz for "Over the Rainbow" he made it sound as pretty as he could with lots of strings and a touch of woodwind.
After the war he collaborated most closely with Steiner during his golden period with Warner Brothers. Their work on A Summer Place netted them a US #1 hit for the insistent theme song. Joining ASCAP in 1946, Cutter occasionally wrote original music for the screen but rarely received a credit.
His last credit, along with Steiner, was for Disney's forgettable Those Calloways in 1965. No known Broadway credits are recorded for him.
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The daughter of a dead magician who accidentally killed his wife, her mother, while performing a guillotine trick must spend the night in his house in order to collect her inheritance. Is the house haunted or is it all magic?
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Prudence, uma jovem professora americana, pede demissão da escola depois de ser criticada por dar para uma aluna a sua cópia de um livro sobre romance. Ela viaja para a Itália de navio, aceita um emprego em uma pequena livraria em Roma, e encontra Don, que acaba de romper com sua namorada. Prudence e Don viajam juntos pela Itália e, naturalmente, surge o romance.
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A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass the baby off as her own.
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Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.
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O veterano agente do FBI, John Michael "Chip" Hardesty, narra a história da organização, iniciando com o caso de Jack Graham, psicopata que explodiu o avião que viajava a mãe dele, em um voo de Denver para Portland para ficar com o prêmio do seguro de vida dela. A solução do caso após minuciosa investigação é mostrada como um exemplo da evolução técnica daquele órgão policial norte-americano.
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Em 1873, no Caminho do Ouro, Montana, o misterioso e discreto Dr. Joseph Frail chega na pequena cidade de Skull Creek, onde os mineiros estão em uma corrida do ouro. O Dr. Frail compra uma cabana no topo de uma colina e vê o ladrãozinho Rune ferido e perseguido por uma multidão que quer pendurar ele. Dr. Frail ajuda e cura Rune; mas, em troca exige que o jovem se torna seu servo. O curador de alcoólatras e pregador George Grubb diz para os moradores que o Dr. Frail, que é um grande jogador e pistoleiro, é o verdadeiro diabo, mas ninguém dá atenção às suas palavras.
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Um avião a caminho do Japão é forçado a pousar no mar perto da costa japonesa. Um pequeno menino americano sobrevive à escavação, mas é separado do resto dos passageiros e da tripulação e é levado por um pescador japonês, que leva o menino de volta à sua aldeia. O menino é ajudado pelo filho do pescador, mas quando vê a polícia japonesa invadindo a vila, eles temem que tenham feito algo errado e fugido, embora a polícia esteja apenas procurando pelo menino desaparecido. Juntos, os dois rapazes viajam pelo interior do Japão, tentando evitar que a polícia os procure e se encontre com muitos tipos diferentes de pessoas ao longo do caminho.
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A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who also has a Mexican woman in town.
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Durante a 2ª Guerra Mundial Willie Keith (Robert Francis), um jovem oficial, se incorpora à tripulação do Caine, um navio de menor porte que funciona como caça-minas. O imediato Steve Maryk (Van Johnson) e o tenente Tom Keefer (Fred MacMurray) também fazem parte do staff. Logo depois da chegada de Willie, o capitão DeVriess (Tom Tully) é substituído pelo capitão Philip Francis Queeg (Humphrey Bogart), que logo impõe sua autoridade e sua neurose acerca de limpeza, pois é de seu intento comandar um navio imaculado, onde até uma camisa fora de calça é motivo de séria advertência. Esta neurose faz com que ele se distraia e navegue em círculos, além de cortar seu próprio cabo de reboque. Incidentes adicionais indicam que Queeg está sofrendo de stress. Maryk acha estranho o comportamento do capitão e Keefer insidiosamente planta a semente, dizendo que Queeg está próximo de um colapso nervoso. e 10.
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Neste filme biográfico, Jim Bowie vai para Nova Orleans, onde se apaixona por Judalon e torna-se amigo de seu irmão, Narcisse. Logo, Jim é forçado a vingar o assassinato de Narcisse, mas Judalon pega outro homem. Jim acaba tendo outro interlúdio romântico com Judalon e é forçado a matar um de seus pretendentes em legítima defesa. Jim deixa a cidade e se apaixona pela filha de um político do Texas, mas seu envolvimento com Judalon continua a atormentá-lo.
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Gregory Mason é um marinheiro de salvados marítimos que actua nas Filipinas e que mantém um romance com a esposa do seu sócio, Andy. Após o assassinato de Andy, ele é abordado por um homem misterioso e obrigado a embarcar em busca de um tesouro de que Andy já estaria à procura. Porém, ninguém confia realmente em ninguém nesta viagem.
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Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.
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The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.
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Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
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Raton Pass is a curious western based on the rules of Community Property. Dennis Morgan and Patricia Neal portray a recently married husband and wife, each of whom owns half of a huge cattle ranch. Neal is a tad more ambitious than her husband, and with the help of a little legal chicanery she tries to obtain Morgan's half of the spread. He balks, so she hires a few gunslingers to press the issue. In a 1951 western, the greedy party usually came to a sorry end; Raton Pass adheres strictly to tradition.
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Guerra Civil, grupo de soldados sulistas, inadvertidamente iniciam um conflito indigena, quando sua missão era tentar aliá-los a causa sulista.
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Dardo, uma espécie de Robin Hood, e seus seguidores leais usar uma ruína romana na Lombardia Medieval como sua sede de onde eles conduzem uma revolta contra seus conquistadores de Hesse. No Século XII a Lombardia encontra-se sob o tacão de ferro de um senhor alemão, o conde Ulrich "O Falcão", mas nas montanhas os guerrilheiros ainda resistem. Cinco anos antes de nossa história, Ulrich roubou a linda mulher do jovem arqueiro Dardo que, cínico, em vez de amargurado, ainda tem pouco interesse em juntar-se aos rebeldes. Mas isso muda quando seu filho, também, lhe é tirado. O resto é alegre fanfarronice interlúdios românticos com bela refém Anne.
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A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
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Um criminoso psicopata com um complexo-mãe (Complexo de Édipo) faz uma fuga ousada da prisão e depois lidera a sua antiga quadrilha num assalto à folha de pagamento de uma fábrica de produtos químicos. Após o assalto, os eventos tomam um rumo louco.
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Após manchar a honra de Espanha com os seus escândalos amorosos, o aventureiro e sedutor Don Juan de Maraña terá de salvar os reis espanhóis de uma conspiração política perigosa, orquestrada por um dos seus ministros.
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Frank McCloud viaja para um hotel decadente em Key Largo para honrar a memória de um amigo que morreu bravamente em sua unidade durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. A viúva de seu amigo, Nora Temple, e seu pai James Temple que está preso numa cadeira de rodas, administram o hotel e o recebem calorosamente. Mas os três logo se veem virtualmente presos quando o hotel é tomado por um grupo de bandidos liderados por Johnny Rocco que se refugiam lá para aguardar a passagem de um furacão. Mr. Temple insulta fortemente Rocco que, porque está sozinho, só pode confrontá-lo verbalmente. Como ficou desiludido pela violência da guerra, Frank está relutante em agir, mas, o tratamento degradante que Rocco dá a sua alcoólatra amante Gaye Dawn, o envolvimento do grupo de Rocco na morte de alguns inocentes índios Seminole e um vice-xerife, Frank McCloud começa a superar sua inação Hamletiana. e10.
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Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.
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A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems.
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Dois vagabundos e um garimpeiro grisalho descobrem um verdadeiro tesouro em ouro, mas a ganância e a paranoia vai rapidamente se apoderar de todos neste clássico sobre o poder da riqueza escondida nas montanhas e a avareza que se esconde no coração dos homens. e 12.
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A shy California farm girl falls head-over-heels in love with Barry Burnett, a fugitive from a chain gang building a road through the wilderness.
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Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
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A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.
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Brooke's marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that her husband is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in order to claim his inheritance.
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On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.
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After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.
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American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
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Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
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An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
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Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl.
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The mangiest pup at Pete's Pooch Palace catches the Captain's eye. He takes it home, but Mama is less than thrilled; she forbids it to stay in the house. The Captain pretends to put it out, but hides it under his coat. At the dinner table, though, it is soon exposed. Confined to the back yard, the dog howls the night away. The Captain is sent outside to quiet it, but is too tired to make it out the door. He finally gets there and sneaks the dog back inside to his own bed.
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The scene is set at Billy Rose's Casa Manana Revue, filmed at the Fort Worth Frontier Fiesta (1937), an enormous production created as part of the Texas Centennial civic celebrations. The opening song, "The Night Is Young And You're So Beautiful" emanated from the first edition of the Revue and became a hit song on two continents in 1936.
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Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
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A polish countess dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to make Poland independent.
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A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
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Steve Raleight quer produzir um show na Broadway. Ele já conta, inclusive, com sua atriz principal, a bela Sally Lee. Mas, infelizmente, a peça está passando por muitos problemas financeiros, o que está impedindo sua estreia.
Além disso, Caroline Whipple está forçando Steve a usar uma atriz já veterana em vez de Sally, para que então possa lhe conseguir o dinheiro para o lançamento do show.
Então, para ajudar Steve, Sally compra um cavalo que ela costumava treinar quando era mais nova, quando seus pais possuíam uma fazenda. Com muita garra, Sally o treina para competir, para que assim possa ajudar Steve.
