Polish-born composer and violinist, under contract at RKO from 1938. Sawtell was initially hired as a writer of music for serialised B-pictures, which included the 'Mexican Spitfire' and 'Falcon' series. In the 1940s, he free-lanced for two of the so-called Poverty Row studios (Eagle-Lion and Republic) before joining Universal in 1944. There, Sawtell scored two noteworthy entries in the Basil Rathbone/ Nigel Bruce 'Sherlock Holmes' cycle of films: La perla maldita (1944) and La garra escarlata (...
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