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With such lofty intentions, it was a shame Steven Spielberg's anthology series could rarely see a good idea through to a fully-rounded episode. This two-episodes-for-one deal demonstrates a couple that did work, although since the music was often better than the visuals that hardly matters! John Williams bookends each episode with his catchy title theme (included for completists), and as an often better half of any Spielberg project his vibrant score to "The Mission" deserves to be here. There are plenty of bold statements for brass as a seemingly doomed WWII fighter plane makes its forced landing. The surreal ending stays serious in the music thankfully. In contrast is Delerue's warm string-led score to "Dorothy & Ben". A story of swapping deaths to save a small girl is potent material, and despite some creeping harpsichord almost tipping into
Tales From the Crypt territory, this is actually the easier on the ear of the two.
--Paul Tonks
