Original Casino Royale music question

[Laird_M]

Can anyone tell me what the pipe music is in the original David Niven/Peter Sellers version of the film is, where Peter Sellers is walking through a pipe band including Peter O'Toole and Vespa shoots him with a bagpipe-machinegun.

Tried numerous searches on the web including IMDB but can't find anything...

[TomFromBama]

Not sure if this helps, but there is just a hint of pipes on the sample of track 4 here: http://www.allmusic.com/album/casino...k-mw0000310090

[Calgacus]

Not sure if this helps, but there is just a hint of pipes on the sample of track 4 here: http://www.allmusic.com/album/casino...k-mw0000310090

Yup, that seems to be the piece being played during the sequence in question. So there's your answer Martin, it's "Le Chiffre's Torture of the Mind" by Burt Bacharach. I wouldn't exactly categorise it as 'pipe music' though.

[Laird_M]

Thanks guys.
I'm doing some stuff for scouts, and wanted a few examples of pipes used in films, however cheesey.

[imrichmond]

You probably already found this one, but I saw this movie a while ago and thought it was interesting that the pipes were used to play zydeco. I haven't been able to find any other examples of bagpipes in Cajun music.

A Perfect World - No one in this movie, featuring Kevin Costner and Clint Eastwood, plays the bagpipes on screen, but a record is played that has a bagpipe on it. This comes near the end of the movie when Kevin's character is dancing with the farmer's wife. The recording is of a Cajun band playing a waltz called, Big Fran's Baby, composed by Clint Eastwood (no kidding). There is no mention of who was the piper.

[EagleJCS]

Have you found the website Bagpipes go to the Movies? It's no longer being maintained (I've sent a couple of entries to be added, but they didn't get in), but it's still up.

[MacEanruig]

Have you found the website Bagpipes go to the Movies? It's no longer being maintained (I've sent a couple of entries to be added, but they didn't get in), but it's still up.

Fascinating website. Too bad it's fallen through the deep cracks of the world wide web.