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Encyclopedia > Cyril Mockridge

Cyril J. Mockridge (August 6, 1896 - January 18, 1979) was a film music composer who worked on such films as Nightmare Alley and Road House. Cyril Mockridge was nominated for an Academy Award for the 1955 film Guys and Dolls and also composed the music for television's Lost in Space. August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (219th in leap years), with 147 days remaining. ... 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... A film score is the background music in a film, generally specially written for the film and often used to heighten emotions provoked by the imagery on the screen or by the dialogue. ... Nightmare Alley is a 20th Century Fox film noir released in 1947. ... Road House is a 1948 film noir directed by Jean Negulesco for Twentieth Century-Fox. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Guys And Dolls is a successful 1950 musical. ... Lost in Space is a science fiction TV series produced between 1965 and 1968 by television producer Irwin Allen. ...


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For the principal theme of his score, Al reached back to a movie he had done for Samuel Goldwyn in 1935, BELOVED ENEMY, a story about Irish revolutionaries.
At that time he had enlisted as researcher our colleague Cyril Mockridge, who found a beautiful folk song, "The Sixpence." There was a small problem: this melody was not Irish, but Welsh; yet it was so lovely that Newman decided to take his chances with the Irish Provisional Army.
And, probably because the recordings took place in Hollywood rather than Belfast, there were no untoward incidents except that during one take the low-C string on a cello snapped; but the microphones failed to pick that up, so panic was averted.
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