Dag Wiren’s Serenade in Strings (here, specifically the fourth movement, start listening at 10:33 if you’re interested) or something very much like it (and I mean plagiaristically like it) I’m sure was used in some movie from the 40s or 50s, and I’d like to find out what movie it was. My mind is associating it with a British mystery or detective story, for what that’s worth.
I’ve checked IMDB but it doesn’t seem possible to search by music there.
Any other options? Or, miraculously, does anyone recognize the music and know the movie? By the way, programnotes.wikia.com says that it was used as the theme music for a British radio program called Monitor, but I’m sure I’ve never heard that show (or heard of it either) so that’s not the memory that’s being triggered.
OK, SDMB, wow me with your knowledge and expertise.
OK, I tried that and only one movie comes up, a Swedish movie which, when I pull up the list of all the movie’s music, does not mention Dag Wiren.
It looks like this one is going to go unsolved. My guess is that the music was either used uncredited or some hack film composer copied it and never got caught.
It says “A Matter Of Morals” was an English-language film with Patrick O’Neal as the banker who gets enmeshed in a story of embezzlement and murrrderrr.
OK, I concede the English language part, but how do you know what it’s about? IMDB has neither plot nor synopsis listed (that I can find, although apparently I’m not too good at IMDB). No plot keywords, no FAQs, no user reviews, no message board threads, and the Genre just says “Drama.” Is there more about this movie on IMDB Pro?
Naw, for that I had to go to wiki, which has an image of the movie poster, which reads as follows: “GUILTY of making love to another man’s woman…GUILTY of taking another man’s millions…GUILTY of firing the shot that took another man’s life…Yet…who is to say he is guilty of MURDER?!?!”
Never mind. You’ve already mentioned Monitor as a radio program. Poor reading skills on my part. Sigh.
ETA: The TV program was entirely separate, and while only a special on Elgar appears to be currently available on the BBC site, here’s a program listing.