Argento's doomed collaboration with Ennio Morricone: Four Flies on Grey Velvet

Moon In The Gutter: Dust off Those Grooves (Chapter 21) Ennio Morricone's <em>Four Flies on Grey Velvet</em>: "Despite it being a work that ended one of the most important collaborations between a director and composer in the early seventies, the music Ennio Morricone wrote for Dario Argento's Four Flies On Grey Velvet remains more than worthy of a reappraisal.
After scoring both The Bird With The Crystal Plumage and Cat O Nine Tails for Argento, Morricone was the obvious choice for Four Flies On Grey Velvet. The fact that the film featured the character of a young rock musician as its lead and that Argento himself was was falling more and more under the spell of harder and more progressive modern rock sounds perhaps made the collaboration doomed from the beginning on their third film together though...."

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