Credit sequence

TORN CURTAIN

Here is the scored credit sequence from Torn Curtain, by John Addison. It features a menacing electric guitar motif, which is then developed, leading to the main theme, later associated with the escape on the special bus.
    The music in this credit sequence serves the movie well. Even if one had no idea what the film was about (perhaps thinking it was a situation comedy about a housekeeper's torn house curtains), the movie would inform us immediately, just through the opening bars of the score, with their obvious menace. This passage, by the way, was also used for Gromek's murder, but Hitchcock rejected the cue and preferred the scene without an underscore.