Tag Archives: Lesser-known film scores

May 2015
Red Light: Gideon Bibles and Vengeance, or Film noir meets Religion

(Sixth in an occasional series on Tiomkin’s lesser-known film scores) by Warren M. Sherk The entire plot of the 1949 film Red Light, featuring an evocative score by Dimitri Tiomkin, revolves around a Gideon Bible. Travelers are no strangers to … Read More…

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September 2013
Cease Fire: High Noon in Korea

by Warren M. Sherk (Fifth in an occasional series on Tiomkin’s lesser-known film scores) “The dramatic story you are about to see was actually filmed on the battlefields of Korea,” declares the opening title card for Cease Fire, a 1953 … Read More…

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August 2009
Rhythms and redemption in Tiomkin’s score for Jeopardy

(Fourth in an occasional series on Tiomkin’s lesser-known film scores) by Warren M. Sherk As the United States worked to regain its footing following World War II, Hollywood continued to crank out popular melodramas into the 1950s, many of which … Read More…

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April 2009
Dillinger: Bullets and Boogie-Woogie

(Third in an occasional series on Tiomkin’s lesser-known film scores) by Warren M. Sherk John Dillinger, the legendary 1930s-era bank robber, will leave his bullet-ridden mark on screens this summer in director Michael Mann’s Public Enemies, starring Johnny Depp. But … Read More…

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May 2008
Flying Blind and Forced Landing

(Second in an occasional series on Tiomkin’s lesser-known film scores) by Warren M. Sherk In the mid-1940s Dimitri Tiomkin decided it was time he started making real money as a film composer. He put his acute business sense and knowledge … Read More…

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August 2007
The Moon and Sixpence

(First in an occasional series on Tiomkin’s lesser-known film scores) by Warren M. Sherk With so many scores to his credit, there are bound to be some overlooked gems in Dimitri Tiomkin’s film oeuvre. His music for The Moon and … Read More…

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