Dive 013 – Other Sea Genre Films

In putting together this retrospective, we identified numerous films for which their background scores have not been commercially released on LP or CD. The following provides a listing of these films grouped by the 10 Sea Genres. Interested readers can search on each film’s title at the Internet Movie Data Base (http://www.imdb.com.) to see if the film is available on VHS or DVD.

Sea Monsters

1954 – Monster from the Ocean Floor (André Brummer) 1957 – Attack of the Crab Monsters () 1957 – The Monster That Challenged the World (Heinz Roemheld) 1959 – Behemoth, the Sea Monster (Edwin T. Astley) 1962 – Varan - The Unbelievable (uncredited non-original music by Albert Glasser & Akira Ifukube) 1977 – The Crater Lake Monster (Will Zens – uncredited) 1985 – The Sea Serpent (Robin Davis) 1998 – Kraa! The Sea Monster (Carl Dante) 2000 – Octopus (Marco Marinangeli) 2003 – Avalon: Beyond the Abyss (TV) (Scott Roewe) 2005 – Mee-Shee: The Water Giant (Pól Brennan) 2007 – Beyond Lock Ness (TV) (Pinar Toprak) 2009 – Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (Chris Ridenhour) 2009 – Malibu Shark Attack (Michael Neilson) 2010 – (TV) (Cynthia Brown) 2010 – vs. (TV) (Chuck Cirino, Al Kaplan & Jon Kaplan) 2010 – Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (Video) (Chris Ridenhour)

Sea Mutants

1956 – The She-Creature (Ronald Stein) [remade as Creature of Destruction (1967)] 1956 – Bride of the Monster (Frank Worth) 1956 – The Phantom from Ten Thousand Leagues (Ronald Stein) 1957 – (Ronald Stein) 1960 – Creature from the Haunted Sea (Fred Katz) 1961 – Diver Dan (TV) (Jack Sky, Trevor Duncan, & Van Philips) 1962 – Mermaids of Tiburon (The Aqua Sex) (Richard La Salle) 1962 – The Amphibian Man (Andrei Petrov) 1963 – Tourist Attraction (Robert Van Eps) (aired 12/23/63 on TV’s “The Outer Limits” - DVD MGM 1003793) 1964 – The Flesh Eaters (Arnold Drake and Noel Regneya –songs) 1964 – The Horror of Party Beach (unidentified) 1966 – Terror Beneath the Sea (Water Cyborgs) (Shunsuke Kikuchi) 1973 – The Little Mermaid (Ron Goodwin & Takekuni Hirayoshi) (some music possibly on Capitol SQ 6417) 1973 – Beyond Atlantis (Ed Norton) 1977 – The Man from Atlantis (TV Film & TV series) (Fred Karlin) 1978 – Warlords of Atlantis (Michael Vickers) (1 cue on LP: SF Fact Vol. 2 (Japan Moland LZ 7017M) 1979 – Up from the Depths (James Horner / Russell O’Malley) 1987 – Demon of Paradise (Lizardman) (Edward Achocoso) 1988 – Splash, Too (Joel McNeely) 1989 – Alien from the Deep (Robert O. Ragland & Andrea Ridolfi) 1990 – Endless Descent (Joel Goldsmith) 1995 – They Bite (Stephen Melillo) 1996 – Humanoids from the Deep (Christopher Lennertz & Ben L. McCain) 2004 – Frankenfish (Ryan Beveridge) 2005 – Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy (John Dickson) 2006 – Mermaida (Eric Colvin) 2008 – Anaconda 3: Offspring (Peter Meisner) 2009 – Anacondas: Trail of Blood (Peter Meisner)

Sea Battles

1930 – The Sea Bat (Reggie Montgomery & Al Ward) 1934 – The Secret of the Loch (Peter Mendoza) 1946 – Devil Monster (unidentified) 1948 – Wake of the Red Witch (Nathan Scott) 1954 – Monster from the Ocean Floor (It Stalked the Ocean Floor) (André Brummer) 1956 – She-Gods of Shark Reef (Ronald Stein) 1957 – The Monster That Challenged the World (Heinz Roemheld) 1963 – Tiburoneros (The Shark Hunters) (Sergio Guerrero) 1958 – The Saga of the Viking Women & Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (A. Glasser) 1977 – Tintorera...Bloody Waters (Tintorera...The Silent Death / Tintorera...Tiger Shark) (Basil Poledouris) 1978 – Barracuda (The Lucifer Project) (Klause Schulze) 1978 – The Shark’s Cave (Cave of the Sharks) (Stelvio Cipriani) 1980 – Alligator (Craig Hundley) 1980 – Island Claws (Night of the Claw) (Bill Justis) 1981 – The Great Alligator (Stelvio Cipriani) 1981 – The Loch Ness Horror (Richard H. Theiss) 1982 – Blood Tide (The Red Tide) (Jerry Mosely) 1984 – Monster Shark (Devilfish / various other titles) (Guido & Maurizio DeAngelis aka Antony Barrymore) 1987 – Night of the Shark (Stelvio Cipriani) 1991 – Alligator 2: The Mutation (Jack Tillar) 1991 – Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (TV) (Craig Safan) 1995 – Jaws 5: Cruel Jaws (Michael Morahan) 1998 – Gargantua (TV) (J. Peter Robinson) 1999 – Shark Attack (Serge Colbert) 2000 – Shark Attack 2 (Mark Morgan) 2000 – Crocodile (Serge Colbert) 2001 – Shark Hunter (Anthony Riparetti) 2001 – Beneath Loch Ness (Richard John Baker) 2002 – Crocodile 2: Death Swamp (Bill Wandel) 2002 – Shark Attack 3: Megadolon (Bill Wandel) 2003 – Shark Zone (Serge Colbert) 2003 – Red Water (TV) (Louis Febre & Dominic Messinger) 2004 – Dark Waters (Christopher Holden) 2005 – Spring Break Shark Attack (TV) (Danny Lux) 2005 – Razorteeth (Jon McBride) 2006 – Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep (Richard A. Walters) 2007 – Black Water (Rafael May) 2007 – Croc (Charles Olins & Mark Ryder) 2007 – Lake Placid 2 (Nathan Furst) 2007 – Razortooth (Jeffery Allan Jones & Aldo Shlaaku) 2008 – The (Troglodyte) (Chuck Cirino) 2008 – (Nathan Furst) 2010 – Dinocroc vs. Supergator (Chuck Cirino, Al Kaplan, and Jon Kaplan) 2010 – Dinoshark (Cynthia Brown) 2010 – Lake Placid 3 (Nathan Furst) 2012 – 2-Headed Shark Attack (Chris Ridenhour) 2012 – Jersey Shore Shark Attack (Andres Boulton and Marc Jovani) 2012 – Sand Sharks (Mario Salvucci) 2012 – Lake Placid: The Final Chapter (Frederik Wiedmann) 2012 – (Al Kaplan and Jon Kaplan) 2012 – Shark Week (Shark Assault) (Chris Ridenhour) 2014 – vs. Pteracuda (Cynthia Brown) 2015 – Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf (Charles Bernstein & Ryan D. Beveridge) 2015 – Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (Claude Foisy)

Sea Buddies

1963 – Flipper (Henry Vars) 1964 – Flipper’s New Adventure (Henry Vars) 1964 – Island of the Blue Dolphins (Paul Sawtell) 1966 – Namu, The Killer Whale (Samuel Matlovsky / “Ballad of...” - Tom Glazer) 1976 – A Whale of a Tale (Jonathan Cain) 1976 – Mako: The Jaws of Death (???) 1977 – A Whale of a Tale (Jonathan Cain) 1978 – The Bermuda Depths (TV) (“Jennie”-Jules Bass & Maury Lewis) 1981 – Shark Boy of Bora Bora (Sea Killer / Beyond the Reef) (Francis Lai & Jean Musy) 1987 – Tadpole and the Whale (Normand Dubé & Guy Trépanier) 2002 – The Land Before Time IX: Journey to the Big Water (James Horner & Michael Tavera)

Sea Subs – Fantasy Subs

1916 – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Silent) 1929 – The Mysterious Island (Martin Broones, Arthur Lange, & Paul Lampkoff-uncredited) 1936 – The Undersea Kingdom (Harry Grey, musical supervisor; stock music by various composers) 1951 – Mysterious Island (15 episode Columbia serial) (uncredited: George Duning & Paul Sawtell) 1958 – The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (Zdenek Liska) - Kirk Henderson reviews “Zdenek Liska’s The Fabulous World of Jules Verne,” Music from the Movies, Issue 21, Autumn 1998, pp. 22-24) 1959 – The Atomic Submarine (Alexander Laszlo) 1968 – Yellow Submarine (George Martin & The Beatles) 1970 – The Aquarians (aka Deep Lab) (Lalo Schifrin) 1978 – The Amazing Captain Nemo (Richard LaSalle) 1996 – Beneath the Bermuda Triangle (aka Time Under Fire) (Eric Wurst and David Wurst) 1998 – Nautilus (David Wurst & Eric Wurst) 2007 – 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (David Raiklen)

Sea Subs – War Subs

1931 – Seas Beneath (Peter Brunelli – uncredited) 1943 – Action in the North Atlantic (Adolph Deutsch) 1943 – Crash Dive (David Buttolph) 1943 – We Dive At Dawn (Louis Levy, musical director) 1951 – Operation Pacific (Max Steiner) 1953 – Torpedo Alley (Edward J. Kay, musical director) 1956 – Above Us the Waves (Arthur Benjamin) 1958 – Run Silent, Run Deep (Franz Waxman) 1958 – Torpedo Run (not identified) 1958 – Underwater Warrior (Harry Sukman) 1959 – Up Periscope (Ray Heindorf) 1959 – Operation Petticoat (Henry Mancini & David Rose) 1959 – Submarine Seahawk (Alexander Laszlo, musical director) 1964 – The Inside Man (Stefan Nilsson) (title theme by Anthony More& Matthew Irving) 1966 – Assault on a Queen (Duke Ellington) 1972 – Torpedo Attack (Kostas Kapnisis) 1990 – Full Fathom Five (Allan Zovad) 1990 – Going Under (Dive) (David Michael Frank) 1991 – Mission of the Shark (TV) (Craig Safan) 1995 – Down Periscope (Randy Edelman, additional music by Mark McKenzie) 1996 – Crash Dive: The Chase Is On (Claude Gaudette, David Wurst, & Eric Wurst) 1998 – Crash Dive 2: Counter Measures (David Wurst & Eric Wurst) 2001 – Danger Beneath the Sea (TV) (Norem Orenstein)

Sea Spies

1942 – Reap the Wild Wind (Victor Young) 1951 – The Frogmen (Cyril J. Mockridge) 1955 – Underwater (Roy Webb) 1956 – Manfish (Albert Elms) 1958 – The Silent Enemy (William Alwyn) 1958 – Underwater Warrior (Harry Sukman) 1967 – Easy Come, Easy Go (Joseph J. Lilley & Elvis Presley songs?) 1968 – Daring Game (George Bruns) 1970 – Shark () (Rafael Moroyoqui) 1986 – Oceans of Fire (Patrick Williams) 1989 – The Evil Below (Julian Laxton) 1990 – Navy SEALS (Sylvester Levay) 1993 – Deep Trouble (Les Audacieux) (not identified) 2000 – Manfish (Benjamin Art and Narek Hovsepian)

Sea Treasures

1931 – Tabu (aka Tabu, a Story of the South Seas) (Hugo Riesenfeld, W. Franke Harling, & Milan Roder) 1934 – Sixteen Fathoms Deep (Oliver Wallace) 1937 – Wallaby Jim of the Islands (Felix Bernard & Irving Bibo – songs) 1943 – Isle of Forgotten Sins (aka Monsoon) (Leo Erdochy) 1953 – King of the Coral Sea (Wilbur Sampson) 1953 – City Beneath the Sea (Henry Mancini, Milton Rosen, Hans J. Salter, Frank Skinner, Herman Stein; Le Roi Amtoine-song: Tamballa; Arnold Hughes-song: Handle with Care) 1955 – Pearls of the South Pacific (Louis Forbes) 1955 – Rommel’s Treasure (Carlo Rustichelli) 1956 – Manfish (Albert Elms) 1957 – Undersea Girl (Alexander Courage) 1957 – Zombies of Mora Tau (Mischa Bakaleinikoff) 1958 – (Ronald Stein) 1958 – The Snorkel (Francis Chagrin) 1962 – City Beneath the Sea (TV-series – 7 episodes) 1963 – Secret Beneath the Sea (TV-series – 6 episodes) 1964 – Raiders from Beneath the Sea (Hank Levine) 1969 – Shark! (Maneater) (Rafael Moroyoqui) 1971 – City Beneath the Sea (TV movie – 98 minutes) (Richard LaSalle) 1975 – Shark’s Treasure (Robert O. Ragland) 1976 – Evil in the Deep (aka The Treasure of Jamaica Reef) (Christopher L. Stone) 1979 – The Treasure Seekers (Byron Lee) 1998 – The Evil Below (Julian Laxton) 2008 – Sharks in Venice (Stephen Edwards)

Sea Escapes

“beats from every lousy ‘we’re trapped in an underwater station’ potboiler” (Jeff Bond, FSM, Vol. 4, No. 9, 11/99)

1962 – City Beneath the Sea (UK TV series – 7 episodes) (???) 1963 – Secret Beneath the Sea (UK TV series – 6 episodes) (???) 1966 – Destination Inner Space (Terror of the Deep) (Paul Dunlap) 1971 – City Beneath the Sea (TV Pilot) (Richard LaSalle) 1973 – The Neptune Disaster (William McCauley / Lalo Schifrin) 1974 – Fer-De-Lance (TV) (Dominic Frontiere) 1977 – Airport ’77 (John Cacavas) 1979 – S.O.S. Titanic (TV) (Howard Blake) 1983 – The Raiders of Atlantis (aka Atlantis Inferno) (Guido & Maurizio de Angelis) 1989 – Lords of the Deep (Jim Kerenholtz) 1995 – The Alien Within (aka Unknown Origin) (TV) (Christopher Lennertz) 1995 – Proteus (David A. Hughes & John Murphy) 1997 – Sub Down (Stefano Mainetti) 2000–2005 – Sealab 2021 (Chris Ward) 2000 – Submerged (David Wurst & Eric Wurst) 2000 – Deep Water (aka Intrepid) (Alexander Baker & Clair Marlo) 2001 – Submerged (TV) (Phil Marshall) 2002 – Dark Descent (Descent into Darkness) (Richard McHugh) 2004 – Megalodon (Tony Fennell, Billy James, & Brian Randazzo) 2005 – Submerged (Guy Farley) 2006 – The Poseidon Adventure (Joe Kraemer)

Sea Docs

1930 – Sea Spiders (William Axt) 1934 – Man of Aran (John Greenwood) 1952 – The Sea Around Us (Paul Sawtell) 1954 – Sesto Continente (Sixth Continent) (Roberto Nicolosi) 1956 – The Silent World (Yves Baudrier) 1964 – Le Monde Sans Soleil (World Without Sun) (Henri Crolla & André Hodeir) 1964 – L’Enciclopedia del Mare (?) 1974 – Trapped Beneath the Sea (TV) (Joel Hirschhorn & Al Kasha) 1976 – The Legend of Loch Ness (?) 1976 – Voyage to the Edge of the World (Cyril Ray) 1977 – Cari Mostri Del Mare (Carlo Savina) 1977 – Calpyso’s Search for the Brittanic (Elmer Bernstein) 1978 – Diving for Roman Plunder (TV – The Cousteau Odyssey) (Elmer Bernstein) 1978 – The Lost City of Atlantis (Aminadav Aloni) 1980 – Killers of the Great Barrier Reef (?) 1980 – King of the Underwater World (?) 1990 – Island of Whales (Bruce Ruddell) 1995 – Great White Shark (TV) (???) 1997 – Dolphins: The Ride (Steve Wood & Sting) 1998 – Secrets of the Deep: Great White – The Unchallenged King of the Sea (???) 1998 – The World’s Deadliest Sea Creatures (TV) (Scooter Pietsch) 2001 – Ancient Mysteries - Atlantis: The Lost Civilization (?) 2002 – Forbidden Depths (Ron Riddle) 2003 – Volcanoes of the Deep (Michel Cusson)