One of the most versatile composers of the 1930’s and 1940’s was Roy Webb, whose twenty-five year tenure with RKO Pictures resulted in a plethora of effective and memorable film scores in a wide variety of musical styles and film genres. Born in New York City on Oct. 3, 1888, Roy Webb had initially been…
Rudolph Maté’s memorable film noir thriller, D.O.A. (1949), concerned an innocent man who suddenly realizes he’s been murdered with a slow-acting and irreversible poison, and who becomes desperate to learn who committed the crime, and why, before the foul chemical reaches its course. Well-acted by Edmund O’Brien and Pamela Britton, the film was aided immeasurably…
One of the best horror movie scores of the 1970s was for Hammer Film’s 1971 thriller, HANDS OF THE RIPPER. The film was a poignant story of a young woman possessed by the unwholesome spirit of her father – Jack the Ripper. The picture benefitted from a literate script, excellent direction, convincing performances, and fine…
Hollywood has not exactly achieved world fame for the historical accuracy of its film biographies, as the carefree manner in which it often juggles historical facts with sheer fantasy to suit its own dramatic purposes is its Achilles heel, where it can be - and usually is - attacked. LUST FOR LIFE, however, is a…
I have been composing music for the greater part of a lifetime, and although I must confess to having entertained secret hopes that someone would some day ask me to do the score for a film, I had never really expected that it would happen. The music chosen to accompany the vast majority of film…
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