Rocketeer tried the Jaguar manual gearbox, too — as found in base - model S - types, which are cheap and plentiful, making them an ideal donor for the conversion — but the Mazda gearbox is actually more than up to the task of handling the power (Bruce notes that the firing pulses of the V6 are easier on gearbox internals than those of a four - pot).
While Horner took a fresh, retro approach to «The
Rocketeer» in tone as opposed to outrightly
trying to sound like a score from the 40's, his brief, swashbuckling salute to the music of Hollywood's golden age shows just how wonderfully Horner followed in that symphonically exuberant tradition.