Shaw Brothers Studio

Now, when it comes to composers of horror films, James Bernard, or I should say James Bernard, he was English, that's the way we pronounce it over there, but his name looms incredibly large.

He was on the ground floor creating the musical language of Hammer Studios horror films in the mid-50s, and the studio was still churning out their brand of gothic Eastman color blood and cleavage epics well into the 70s and beyond, and at that period, Hammer joined forces with Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers Studios for The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires.

This one has always struck me as kind of one for the kiddos.

It's a little bit more silly and cute than your average Hammer fare.

The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires.

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That was the prologue from The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires, a Hammer Studios X Shaw Brothers Incorporated production from 1974 with music by James Bernard and Bernard, I have to keep reminding myself to say, and narration.

by Sir Peter Cushing and this is Play Maracone for me on the Cinematic Sound Radio Network on today's show we are playing Demonic Deep Cuts for the spooky season with a variety of either lesser known films by horror film soundtrack maestros like Mr. Bernard and in other cases composers who I think are not really so much known for their horror work but I would argue maybe should be John Williams comes to mind um He's done a number of wonderful horror film scores, including Dracula with Frank Langella, The Fury by De Palma, and, oh yeah, a little obscure movie known as Jaws.

Painters Yu Ri and Lao San stumble upon He Hua, a woman sold into the sex industry at a local brothel.

Made at the great Shaw Brothers Studios, Sons of Good Earth was... was King Hu's first major directorial effort and won the 1966 Golden Horse Awards for both Best Screenplay and Best Editing.

Film stars Peter Chen Ho, Betty Loti, Lee Kun, and King Hu himself.

New audio commentary by writer and film critic Camille Zarin.

And this one is, Where is Officer Tuba? What a bizarre title here, starring the legendary Sammo Hong.

one of my favorites, I think everybody, this also has David Chang in it, and it's weird, because I don't know if I've ever seen off the top of my head, I've seen a couple, but they're still Shaw Brothers flicks, maybe, actually, World War II style, I'm getting out of time right here, but I don't know if I've seen too many David Chang movies where he's in a contemporary modern role, I've seen World War II kind of set piece ones, or after that, but, and also, like, I've seen, of course, all the period piece Shaw Brothers movies, but David Chang is a Shaw staple so him being in this is really weird he's kind of a super cop but the plot is uh a super bizarre one here uh sammo hung is a lonely guy who works at the police and he basically just plays the tuba in the bands and stuff like that most of the time he just kind of meanders and wanders around this store that's by his house and he kind of like sheepishly like kind of looks at you know pretty girls and talks to the people that work there and he ends up kind of falling for this girl that started being like a manager there and there seems to be an attraction from her part as well And basically what happens is he lives with kind of a guy who wants to be a really badass cop, but he's put behind an office job.

And essentially David Chang is a super cop.

So one day David Chang's like, we got to kind of get into this drug deal and figure out what's going on, but we need somebody to go undercover.

But during the day, we always have some sort of like non-Godzilla matinee something, right? We had an Ultraman North American release one year and then two years ago.

We had a Shaw Brothers, the famous the famous company that basically built the kung fu genre films in Hong Kong.

They did a in 1970s.

They wanted to capitalize on the Ultraman tokusatsu craze.

Like, so like, hey, if we can't get the rights, to air, to screen Super Info Man, we're not going to do it.

But luckily we were.

And we were able to track down who owned the Shaw Brothers Library now in Hong Kong, and we got that.

Fast forward, we're like, hey, who else should we do? And we're like...