Hitchcock tapped Henry Mancini to score his Jack-the-Ripperesque thriller Frenzy (1972). Unfortunately, the collaboration didn't succeed. Mancini was replaced by Ron Goodwin, whose music made it into the final cut. Meanwhile, Mancini's full recording languished in storage until it was finally released on CD in late 2022. Hitchcock scholar Steven DeRosa (Writing with Hitchcock) painstakingly restored key scenes from the film with Mancini's music and he sat down with the HitchCon Monthly group for a watch party and discussion.

DeRosa adds: "It was a pleasure to present this "first look" at Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy with Henry Mancini's cues restored along with Joel Gunz. I am grateful to Patricia Wheeler-Condon, whose dissertation on the unused Mancini score contains the composer's detailed timing notes which allowed me to confirm the proper placement of the cues. It's fascinating to consider what might have been but in the end, it seems Ron Goodwin delivered what Hitchcock wanted for his film."

Read more at The Hitchcockian Quarterly.