For many years, Hollywood movie music has been looked down upon and ignored by critics as a valid and important form of...
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1995
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Featured Music
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1990
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Weighed down by her late husband's debts, widow Beth Macauley (Jessica Lange) is compelled to sell her home and move to a...
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Featured Music
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1990
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Forever interested in the kitsch built into past eras, director John Waters chooses the TV dance show craze of the early '60s...
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Featured Music
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1988
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Except for Me and Thee is the syndicated title of Friendly Persuasion, the pilot film for an unsold TV series based on the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1975
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Innokenty Smotkunovsky essays the title role in the Russian production Tchaikovsky (released in some areas as Tchaikowski)....
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Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer, Producer
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1970
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Mackenna's Gold is a colorful, action-packed western feature with an all-star cast. Mackenna (Gregory Peck) has committed to...
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Producer
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1969
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Mae West was never permitted to make a film version of her bawdy historical romp Catherine Was Great, yet this British...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1968
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John Wayne and Kirk Douglas spend half of The War Wagon trying to knock one another off and the other half working shoulder...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1967
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Filmed in Cinerama and Technicolor, Circus World may have drawn the crowds for various reasons -- not the least, perhaps, for...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1964
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In 1950, Maj. Jefferson Pike (James Garner), an Army intelligence agent who served with distinction in World War II, awakens...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1964
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Though Fall of the Roman Empire is now infamous as the epic which destroyed the cinematic "empire" of producer...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1964
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision, Songwriter
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1963
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In this drama, a young circus performer begins looking for his long-lost mother after his father dies. He finds the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1962
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Gene Pitney's hit title song for this courtroom drama became a bigger and more enduring success than the film in which it was...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1961
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The guns of Navarone are huge Nazi cannons, installed on an Aegean island behind enemy lines. Anthony Quayle is the officer...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1961
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John Wayne's directorial debut The Alamo is set in 1836: Wayne plays Col. Davy Crockett, who, together with Colonels Jim...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1960
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Director Fred Zinnemann was riding a crest in the '50s with movies like High Noon, From Here to Eternity, Oklahoma, and his...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1960
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One of Hollywood's most famous and acclaimed directors, John Huston guides this western with an unerring hand -- the cast of...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1960
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Just outside the small town of Pauley, a Native American woman is attacked by two riders on horseback, raped, and killed. Her...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1959
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Although it revolves around a crucial issue in the history of California, this subpar drama misses its targets somehow. The...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision, Songwriter
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1959
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Set in Texas during the late 1860s, Rio Bravo is a story of men (and women) and a town under siege. Presidio County Sheriff...
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Composer (Music Score), Conductor, Musical Direction/Supervision, Songwriter
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1959
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Ernest Hemingway's short novel The Old Man and the Sea was probably unfilmable to begin with, but this didn't stop...
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Composer (Music Score), Conductor, Musical Direction/Supervision
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1958
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Of the many filmed versions of the October 26, 1881, O.K. Corral shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1957
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Night Passage is so similar in spirit to the successful collaborations between star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1957
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Wild Is the Wind represents a (perhaps deliberate) reversal of the situation in The Rose Tattoo (1955). Whereas in Tattoo,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1957
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Cinerama, a three-camera widescreen process designed essentially to pry filmgoers away from their TV screens in the early...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1957
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George Stevens' sprawling adaptation of Edna Ferber's best-selling novel successfully walks a fine line between potboiler and...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1956
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Composer (Music Score)
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1956
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In this typical 1950s Western, cowboy Wes Tancred (Richard Egan) is publicly vilified after killing a famous gunslinger who...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision, Songwriter
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1956
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In this 1955 Otto Preminger film, Gary Cooper stars as World War I hero Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The film recounts...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1955
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Greer Garson's first non-MGM starring vehicle was the stylish western Strange Lady in Town. That lady is Julia (Garson), who...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1955
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"Nobody knew how a Pharaoh talked!" That's how producer/director Howard Hawks explained some of the sillier dialogue...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1955
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For The High and the Mighty, director William Wellman made a point of using Cinemascope to heighten the dramatic content of a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1954
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Based on the popular mystery play by Frederick Knott, Dial M For Murder is more talky and stagebound than most Hitchcock...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1954
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A young woman (Jean Simmons) manages a remote California sheep ranch with her father (Brian Aherne). A plane carrying a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1954
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The Command was Warner Bros.' first Technicolor release. Guy Madison, then extremely popular with western fans by virtue of...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1954
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In the 1950s, historical spectaculars set in the Far or Middle East became the repository for exploitive tales of eroticism,...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1954
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The answer is: A turgid melodrama. The question: What is Jeopardy? Barbara Stanwyck stars as a suburbanite on a Mexican...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1953
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Based on the turn-of-the-century play Our Two Consciences by Paul Anthelme, Hitchcock's I Confess is set in Quebec....
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1953
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1953
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Captain David O'Keefe is a character based on the real-life 18th-century American who introduced modern agricultural methods...
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1953
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Composer (Music Score)
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1953
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"You guys will never be soldiers!" With these words, Richard Widmark opens and closes Take the High Ground. Widmark plays...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1953
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Composer (Music Score)
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1953
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This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from office and go on his honeymoon...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1952
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Joseph Cotten plays a assistant bank manager who steals $500,000 from the safe late on a Friday. He plans to fly to Brazil...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision, Songwriter
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1952
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As indicated by the title, Lady in the Iron Mask is a distaff version of the famous Alexandre Dumas yarn. D'Artagnan...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1952
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Jan de Hartog's two-person stage play The Fourposter has always seemed to attract married acting couples, a tradition...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1952
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The Happy Time was adapted from the long-running Broadway play by Samuel Taylor, which in turn was based on the novel by...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1952
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Director Edward Dmytryk returned from a few unhappy years on the Blacklist in the early 1950s, to direct a handful of...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1952
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During the Civil War, Colonel Kern Shafter (played by Ray Milland) and Captain Edward Garnett (played by Hugh Marlowe) become...
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1952
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1952
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Stanley Kramer's production unit at Columbia Pictures was known for its willingness to tackle subject matter that was not...
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1952
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The scene is a distant Arctic research station, where a UFO has crashed. The investigating scientists discover that the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1951
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Composer (Music Score)
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1951
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Directed by former set designer William Cameron Menzies, this minor Civil War effort from low-budget producers King Brothers...
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1951
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Peking Express was the second remake of Josef vonSternberg's Shanghai Express. In the original film, a group of railroad...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1951
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The Well is a modest but generally effective plea for racial tolerance. Based loosely on a real incident, the film tells of...
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1951
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1951
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Zachary Scott plays Max Thursday, an alcoholic ex-police detective working as a bouncer at a sleazy rooming house owned by...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1950
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Recreating his stage role, Jose Ferrer stars as Edmond Rostand's Cyrano, a 17th-century French cavalier, poet and swordsman...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1950
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Fred Zinnemann's sensitive film on the plight of paraplegic WWII veterans features Marlon Brando in his superbly moving...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1950
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This comedy stars Ronald Colman as Beauregard Bottomley, a self-styled genius in need of a job. He applies for a position...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1950
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In this classic noir-influenced Western, Gregory Peck stars as an aging gunslinger, sick of killing but haunted by punks...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1950
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Although Marie Windsor plays the title role in Dakota Lil, she is shunted away to third billing, right after male leads...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1950
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Arthur Laurents' play Home of the Brave concerned a paralyzed Jewish war veteran who begins to walk again only when he...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1949
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While far from the only good film on boxing, Champion is perhaps the best drama ever based on the fight game. It is...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1949
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Infused with religious themes, this crime drama is considered a minor example of film noir. Set in Los Angeles, it tells the...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1949
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Filmed on location in the Canadian Rockies, this historical adventure spins a fanciful account of the building of the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1949
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"I want to report a murder...mine." So begins D.O.A. Told in flashback, the story tells of how vacationing CPA Frank Bigelow...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1949
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The "mermaids" are really tribal pearl divers in this diverting Tarzan adventure. Their livelihood is threatened by an evil...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1948
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Radio humorist Henry Morgan made his film debut in So This is New York. Based on The Big Town, a collection of stories by...
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1948
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In Portrait of Jennie, Joseph Cotten plays an artist, Eben Adams, who is unable to bring any true feeling to his work. While...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1948
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John Wayne -- showing off a darker side to his screen persona than we'd previously seen -- portrays Thomas Dunson, a...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1948
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In this western comedy, a milquetoast gunsmith from the East Coast goes to Arsenic City, Arizona because he has heard that...
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1948
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Based upon the French film Le Jour Se Lève, The Long Night opens in the in the midst of a dire situation: ex-serviceman Joe...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1947
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At the request of the Signal Corps, John Huston made a wartime documentary of the emotionally disturbed war veterans being...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1946
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In this comedy, Paul Muni plays a recently murdered gangster who finds himself roasting in Hell. Muni can't believe that he's...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1946
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In this drama, Mary (Ava Gardner) returns to her small town after she becomes a success in the city. Meeting up with her old...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1946
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This is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1946
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Composer (Music Score)
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1946
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Black Beauty, Anna Sewell's classic tale of a beautiful horse is adapted in a disappointingly flat fashion by independent...
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1946
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1946
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Dillinger, the was the ninth effort from the enterprising King Brothers, and their most financially successful film to date....
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1945
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1945
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In this propaganda film, a courageous group of Chinese children risk their lives to assist downed American pilots escape the...
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1945
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Betrayed is the reissue title for the classic melodrama When Strangers Marry. In her third film, Kim Hunter plays a waitress...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1944
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All but forgotten today, Ladies Courageous was one of the more successful wartime morale-boosters. Loretta Young heads the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1944
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Battle of China was number six in the Why We Fight series, a group of government-sponsored documentaries aimed at explaining...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1944
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The Battle of San Pietro was Hollywood filmmaker John Huston's first effort for the U.S. War Department. Scripted by British...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1944
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Originally titled They Shall Have Faith, Forever Yours was designed as Monogram's "prestige" release for 1945. Musical...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1944
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First filmed in 1928, Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey is given a ponderous treatment in...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1944
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Strange Confession was the fourth in Universal's "Inner Sanctum" B-picture series, all of which starred Lon Chaney Jr. Chaney...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1944
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The Battle of Britain was the fourth of the US government's Why We Fight documentaries. The film uses newsreel footage and a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1943
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The 60-minute documentary was the fifth of the Army Special Service's "Why We Fight" series. Assembled under the supervision...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1943
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The Nazi Strike was the second of Col. Frank Capra's government-ordained "Why We Fight" series. This hard-hitting documentary...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1943
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The King Brothers, entrepreneur siblings who parlayed an allegedly ill-gotten fortune into a long movie career, produced...
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1943
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Composer (Music Score)
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1943
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Teresa Wright plays Charlie, a small-town high-schooler who enjoys a symbiotic relationship with her favorite uncle, also...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1943
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The Soviet war documentary Moscow Strikes Back was released in the U.S. in a specially-prepared English language version....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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In this crime drama, a remake of Forgotten Faces (1936), a convict busts out of prison to protect his daughter from her...
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1942
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This third film version of the hectic Margaret Mayo-Salisbury Field stage farce Twin Beds officially stars George Brent and...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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Flying Blind was the third of William Pine and William Thomas' independent productions for Paramount release. The cast...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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Scattergood Meets Broadway was the third of RKO's film series based on the long-running radio favorite Scattergood Baines....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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1941
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1941
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In this war drama, a commercial pilot joins the air corps of a South Pacific island, and there he finds that he must contend...
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1941
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Lewis Milestone directs the lightweight romantic comedy Lucky Partners, based on a story by Sacha Guitry. David Grant (Ronald...
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1940
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The town of Vinegaroon, TX, is the home to Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan), who calls himself "The Only Law West of the...
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1940
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Virtually a textbook example of Howard Hawks' "macho" mode, Only Angels Have Wings takes place high in the Peruvian Andes....
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1939
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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The visual wizardry in this period action picture about Alaskan fishermen won a special honorary Oscar in the years before...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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The Great Waltz was the first of two films bearing the same title which told the life story of Austrian "Waltz King" Johann...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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A handful of German soldiers readjust to civilian life in the bitter wake of World War I in this follow-up to the classic All...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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It took British author James Hilton six weeks to write his visionary novel Lost Horizon. It took director Frank Capra two...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1936
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In his first American film, Peter Lorre portrays egg-bald Dr. Gogol. A brilliant and highly respected surgeon, Gogol would...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1935
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Feeling stifled by her wealthy existence, flighty heiress Kay (Joan Crawford) falls in love with poor archaeologist Terry...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1935
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1933
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Broadway to Hollywood is a through-the-years saga about a show business family. Frank Morgan and Alice Brady play vaudeville...
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1933
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1931
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Metropolitan opera star Lawrence Tibbett headed the cast of The Rogue Song, an opulent Technicolor adaptation of the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1930
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Few movie "heroes" are as despicable as Roy (Charles Kaley), the leading character in the MGM musical Lord Byron of Broadway....
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1930
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Composer (Music Score)
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1930
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This romantic adventure chronicles the escapades of one of Napoleon's followers. After his leader's exile, the follower is...
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1929
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