Word: stacatto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best praise for its cast is that no single actor stands out. Nicholas van Slyck's music, which the Ivy people dubbed in to carry along their picture, may be a little harder to chew. It raps out its accompaniment to "A Touch's" nervous action at a stacatto 32-frames to the second; it is a raucous, brash, nervous score, which occasionally edges onto the screen and points to itself and says "listen to me." This again makes the person with the Hollywood conditioned eye-car very uncomfortable. But Van Slyck's music is as superior to the sheep...