By that I mean they have to be “stand-alone” pieces that are not performed as “numbers” in the movies themselves. They can be repeated as background music, but not showcased separately. This eliminates, for example, the themes to The Producers (“Springtime for Hitler”), The Great Race (“The Sweetheart Tree”), and My Fair Lady (“I Could Have Danced All Night”).
They don’t have to be instrumental. They can have lyrics too, so long as they’re not performed separately in the movie.
It is an excellent movie that I had forgotten the name of. TCM usually shows it at least once a year.
Gleason was great. McQueen was in a very non-standard McQueen role. He said he took it so he could work with Jackie. Tuesday of course was beautiful. I don’t remember Adam West in at all, so that probably speaks volumes.
That is a great opening. I wouldn’t have thought of “Three Blind Mice” calypso style as a Bond theme.
My Russian ex-wife thought for many years that Doktor No was a mistranslation. She was shocked when I told her “That was his name.”
(She also had no idea what “L.A.” was, even though she heard it every day on CNN—“She’s in New York, he’s in L.A.” She stopped me one day when I happened to mention it and asked me what the hell it meant.)
