Twisted Nerve OST Bernard Herrmann 1969 Polydor 583 728 Kill Bill Tarantino

Description: Les Reed And Barry Mason / Bernard Herrmann – Les Bicyclettes De Belsize / Twisted Nerve Label:Polydor – 583 728Format:Vinyl, LP, StereoCountry:UKReleased:1969Genre:Stage & ScreenStyle:ScoreLes Bicyclettes De BelsizeA1Les Bicyclettes De Belsize (Instrumental)A2Les Bicyclettes De Belsize (Vocal)Vocals – Johnny WorthA3Free As AirVocals – Johnny WorthA4JulieVocals – Johnny WorthA5Kate's ThemeA6All I Need Is LoveVocals – Jane MarloweA7JulieA8Gentleman Of The ParkVocals – Episode SixA9JulieVocals – Johnny WorthA10Les Bicyclettes De Belsize (Vocal)Vocals – Johnny WorthTwisted NerveB1IntroductionB2The DetectiveB3The Twisted Nerve (Jazz Version)B4Second MeetingB5Martin's AngerB6The Twisted Nerve (Vocal Version)Composed By, Conductor – Bernard Herrmann (tracks: B1 to B6)Music By, Lyrics By – Barry Mason (tracks: A1 to A10), Les Reed (tracks: A1 to A10)Music Director – Les Reed (tracks: A1 to A10)Sleeve opening is on the left side Twisted Nerve is a 1968 British psychological thriller film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills, Billie Whitelaw and Frank Finlay.[2] The film follows a disturbed young man, Martin, who pretends, under the name of Georgie, to be intellectually impaired in order to be near Susan—a girl with whom he has become infatuated. Martin kills those who get in his way.[3][4] PlotMartin plays catch with his older brother Pete, who has learning difficulties and has been sent to live in a special boarding school in London, by their mother. Martin is the only remaining figure in Pete's family life; their father died years before and their mother has a new life with her new husband, a wealthy banker. The school's physician believes that Pete cannot be expected to live much longer. At a store, Martin sees Susan purchase a toy. As she leaves, Martin follows after having pocketed a toy duck. Two store detectives ask them to return to the manager's office. The detectives assert that Martin and Susan were working together to steal the toy. Susan says she has never met Martin. When questioned by the manager, Martin presents himself as mentally challenged, and calls himself "Georgie". Now disbelieving in a link between them, the manager asks Susan for her address, and Martin makes a mental note when she offers it. Sympathetic to him, Susan pays for Martin's toy. Martin returns home and finds his parents arguing in the parlor, over his lack of interest in life, his unusual behavior and the duck incident. In his room, now behaving as "Georgie", he rocks in a rocking chair while smiling in the mirror and caressing a stuffed animal. The rocking motion of the chair is smashing a photo of his stepfather. The next day, Susan goes to the library, where she keeps an after-school job. Martin approaches Susan, who recognises him as Georgie. Martin says that he followed her, and pays her back for the toy. Before leaving, Martin gets Susan to lend him The Jungle Book. Martin has a dispute with his stepfather, who insists he travel to Australia. Martin refuses and returns to his room. Martin stares in the mirror, bare-chested, and caresses himself. He then removes the rest of his clothes. There are male bodybuilding magazines on his dresser. A frustrated Martin eventually smashes the mirror. Martin sets in motion a plan to leave home, pretending to go to France. He then shows up at Susan's mother's house, where she rents rooms. Presenting himself as Georgie, he gains sympathy both from Susan and her mother, who let him stay. Martin wants Susan to accept him as a lover, but cannot reveal that he is in fact Martin, as he is worried she will shun him. One night, Martin steals scissors, leaves, and stabs his stepfather to death after the latter leaves a dinner party. The police investigate the murder and seek Martin for questioning. Days later, Martin invites himself to tag along with Susan who is going for a swim at a country lake. There, Martin attempts to kiss Susan, who refuses his advances. Later at home, Susan searches Martin's room while cleaning and discovers books hidden in a drawer that a person with learning difficulties would not read or understand, as well as a book titled Know Yourself from Your Handwriting, in which signatures in the blank pages read 'Martin Durnley'. Susan begins investigating Martin, talks with his mother, and realizes that the two brothers are one and the same after seeing a photograph of Martin at the house. Susan visits her friend Shashee at a hospital where he works to question him about split personalities. At Susan's house, Martin begins losing control over himself while suspecting that Susan may know who he really is. When Susan's neglected and unsuspecting mother attempts to sexually arouse Martin, he kills her with a hatchet. When Susan arrives home, Martin holds her captive in his room after revealing his true persona. He forces Susan to undress so he can sexually fondle her, while her mother's body is found in the woodshed by Gerry Henderson, one of the "paying guests", who calls the police while Shashee learns the truth about Martin and races to the house to rescue Susan. The police arrive and burst into Susan's room as Martin fires three times at his reflection in the mirror. While being taken away, he claims that he is Georgie and has killed Martin. Martin is confined in a cell at a mental hospital, ranting over his lost love Susan. CastHywel Bennett as Martin Durnley / GeorgieHayley Mills as Susan HarperBillie Whitelaw as Joan HarperPhyllis Calvert as Enid DurnleyFrank Finlay as Henry DurnleyBarry Foster as Gerry HendersonSalmaan Peer as Shashee KadirChristian Roberts as Philip HarveyGretchen Franklin as ClarkieThorley Walters as Sir John ForresterTimothy West as Superintendent DakinRussell Napier as Professor FullerTimothy Bateson as Mr. GroomRichard Davies as Taffy EvansBasil Dignam as DoctorRobin Parkinson as Shop managerMarianne Stone as Store detective 1John Harvey as Store Detective 2Mollie Maureen as Lady patientBrian Peck as Det. Sgt. RogersProduction notesIn October 1967 John Boulting announced he would be making a film with Hayley Mills and Hywell Bennett who had just done The Family Way with the Boultings. They said a title had not been given to the film.[5]The film was produced by George W. George and Frank Granat, who had just made Pretty Polly with Hayley Mills. Filming began on 2 January 1968.[6]The film was a co-production between British Lion Films and a new American company, National General Pictures.[7]TitleThe title comes from the poem Slaves by George Sylvester Viereck (1884–1962) which is quoted twice in the movie, once during Professor Fuller's lecture on chromosome damage, and then as an audio flashback when Martin/Georgie is in a cell: No puppet master pulls the strings on highProportioning our parts, the tinsel and the paintA twisted nerve, a ganglion gone awry,Predestinates the sinner and the saint.[8]Viereck's motives for his writing have been the subject of some discussion, and have further implications given the debate on eugenics during the middle of the 20th century, a subject somewhat alluded to in Professor Fuller's lecture in the film.[9] SoundtrackThe film score was composed by Bernard Herrmann and features an eerie whistling tune.[10][11] The theme can also be heard in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill when a menacing Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) impersonates a nurse in the hospital scene and in Death Proof as Rosario Dawson's character's ringtone, in several episodes of American Horror Story (2011–2021), in the Malayalam language Indian movie Chappa Kurishu as a ringtone of Fahad Fazil's character's iPhone, and in the Bengali movie Chotushkone where it is also used as a ringtone for Parambrata Chatterjee's character's phone. More recently, it has also been used in Honda's 2015 car advertisement.[12] Stylotone Records reissued the score as part of a deluxe LP set, with a release date of 5 May 2016.[13] The theme was also sampled in the Rob $tone songs, "Chill Bill", the Grooveman Jones song "The Hidden Interest" and the Ava Max song “Get Outta My Heart”. ReleaseControversyThe film is notorious for its use of Down syndrome, then referred to as mongolism, as a catalyst for Martin's actions. Letters of complaint were sent to the British censor before the film's release, including one from the National Association for Mental Health. The film's medical adviser, Professor Lionel Penrose, asked for his name to be removed from the film. Roy Boulting said these complaints caused him "shock and surprise and a deep sense of regret and depression".[14] This led to the filmmakers adding a voiceover just prior to the credits which said: In view of the controversy already aroused, the producers of this film wish to re-emphasise what is already stated in the film, that there is no established scientific connection between mongolism and psychotic or criminal behaviour.[15] Even after that had been added, David Ennals, then a Minister of State, Health and Social Security, said: "I do not wish to criticise the film as a film. But I feel it is extremely unfortunate that despite the spoken disclaimer which precedes it, this film can give the impression that there is such a link."[16] As The New York Times put it, "this is a delicate area indeed", going on to describe the film as "more unsettling than rewarding, and certainly more contrived than compassionate".[17] Critical receptionThe Guardian called the film "gross, clumsy and ridiculously predictable."[18] The Observer called it "a glossy commercial psycho thriller which if it weren't for its pernicious implications would be perfectly horrifying" arguing the film would have been better had the character of the elder brother never existed. "Twisted Nerve is a fairly good blood chiller in its genre so long as it is clearly understood that it is a pack of lies."[19] The Los Angeles Times called it "thoroughly engrossing, spine tingling."[20] Filmink called it "not a very good movie in which Mills doesn’t have much to do except react – I think Boulting was trying to fashion her as a Hitchcock blonde but she’s very passive and the movie lacks the directorial flair of a Hitchcock, Seth Holt or Freddie Francis. Les Bicyclettes de Belsize is a 1968 British musical short film (30 mins) directed by Douglas Hickox and starring Judy Huxtable and Anthony May.[1] It was a supporting feature to Roy Boulting's horror film Twisted Nerve (1968). The two films also shared a soundtrack release, with each score occupying one side each of a 1969 Polydor Records album (Polydor 583 728).[2] It tells the story of a young man cycling around the Hampstead (NW3) area of London on a Raleigh RSW16. After crashing into a billboard, he falls in love with a fashion model depicted on it. Despite the title, the Belsize Park area does not actually feature. There is almost no spoken dialogue, and the soundtrack to the film is heard virtually throughout. The title song of the film, written by Les Reed and Barry Mason, has been a hit for Mireille Mathieu and Engelbert Humperdinck (a top ten hit in the UK and a top 40 hit in the USA) amongst others, though the version in the film is sung by Johnny Worth (aka songwriter Les Vandyke). The score also includes "Gentlemen Of The Park", performed by Episode Six and featuring future Deep Purple members Ian Gillan and Roger Glover. The title is derivative of the French film Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964); apart from a musical theme, there is no other obvious link. PlotThe film opens from a vantage point over the rooftops, showing some of the morning occurrences through the windows of the houses. An unnamed young man dressed in a fashionable mod style prepares for the day from his rooftop flat and cycles around to the theme song. He then takes his bicycle and descends to the streets of the leafy suburbs. Cycling down some steps he crashes into the bike of a little girl and is knocked unconscious. She stands over him showing her pigtails, glasses and braces and gazes at him, clearly besotted. The man awakes and asks the girl's name. She tells him she is called Kate. He bids her farewell and cycles off, she follows behind. As he cycles the man sings a song about how he does not envy the responsible, monotonous lives of older people. The girl blows a raspberry as she passes a queue of people at the bus stop; this starts a disagreement between the people at the stop which ends with a food fight. Cycling into a park, the man looks back to see if Kate is still following him, and loses control of the bike, running away down a hill and crashing through a large advertising hoarding. Climbing out, he is struck by the face of a model, "Julie" on the poster advertising Raleigh bicycles. He sings a song professing his love for her and picks flowers to give to her image. Kate tries to attract his attention but he is transfixed by the beautiful model. He eventually rouses himself from his stupor and cycles away. Kate blows a raspberry at the poster then follows him. The man arrives at his workplace, a printer's, opens the post which has arrived, and finds one parcel is a photographic portrait of Julie. He sits gazing at it, while the camera pans across the street. By coincidence, Julie is at a fashionable party in the building there. She sings a song about how pampered and cloistered her world is, and how she wants to find a true love. She walks out of the building, crosses the street and looks at the photo of her which has now been hung in the printer's window. The man is gazing at it still, and recognises her. She smiles at him uncertainly at first, but then with more self-assurance, and they kiss through the glass. Before the man can go outside and meet Julie, she is whisked away in a limousine to a fashion shoot where she poses in various 'groovy' outfits on Parliament Hill and Hampstead Heath,[3] looking unhappy and distracted and wondering where the man she just met is. He cycles through the park looking for her and when he finds her sings his love song again. They walk off hand in hand. The little girl watches them from the hill and looks sad. Then a little boy cycles up, sees her, smiles and expresses his attraction for her and makes her smile. They cycle off together. Critical receptionThe Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The bicycles of Belsize Park prove a poor substitute for the umbrellas of Cherbourg in this mawkish attempt to create a musical mood piece that emerges as an over-sell commercial for N.W.3. Soft focus, psychedelic filters and a tirelessly swinging camera can of course contrive to make any neighbourhood look like a poet's dream of Montmartre, but one soon wearies of the sight of the hero mouthing the lyrics of some unmemorable and over-orchestrated songs as he busily pedals along, while the attempt to create a slapstick sequence with a member of the tricycle set and a few custard pies is possibly even more embarrassing than the scene in which Steve gathers plastic daffodils amid the autumn leaves of Primrose Hill.

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