Tag Archives: Warner Bros.

July 2022
Statues in a Garden: Isabel Colegate and Dimitri Tiomkin

Posted on September 5, 2022 by wsherk

The first notice of Dimitri Tiomkin’s interest in making a film version of the Isabel Colegate novel, Statues in a Garden, dates from the fall of 1965. The novel, published in Great Britain the previous year, had made its way … Read More…

Tagged A. D. Peters & Co., adapted screenplays, Anthony Jones, Dimitri Tiomkin, Elizabeth Taylor, Gerry Blattner, Harold Matson, Isabel Colegate, John Heyman, literary agencies, Max Bercutt, Midford Castle, Seven Arts Productions, Statues in a Garden, Warner Bros., World Film Services

January 2022
Wise Music rents Tiomkin concert suites for Warner Bros. films through Zinfonia

Posted on February 20, 2022 by wsherk

Wise Music now rents Dimitri Tiomkin concert suites for Warner Bros. films administered by Warner/Chappell. The Wise Music Classical Rental Libraries is a leading commercial music library and performance materials are shipped all over the world. Wise recommends you use … Read More…

Tagged concert suites, Dimitri Tiomkin, film music in concert, Newzik, Warner Bros., Wise Music, Zinfonia

October 2021
Dimitri Tiomkin options Jorge Amado’s novel Home is the Sailor

Posted on November 3, 2021 by wsherk

by Warren M. Sherk During the summer of 1965 Dimitri Tiomkin plops down a $2,000 advance, based on a $10,000 option, for the right to film Jorge Amado’s novel Home is the Sailor. At the time, Jorge Amado (1921–2001), a … Read More…

Tagged adapted screenplays, Alfred A. Knopf, Anthony Quinn, Brazilian writers, David Gorton, Dimitri Tiomkin, Elliott Silverstein, Frank Pierson, Harriet de Onis, Home Is the Sailor, Inc., Irwin Margulies, Jorge Amado, Max Bercutt, Tiomkin Musical Enterprises, Warner Bros.

Sundowners, The

Posted on February 18, 2011 by wsherk

Historical comedy-drama directed by Fred Zinnemann. Read More…

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Rio Bravo

Posted on February 18, 2011 by wsherk

Western directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne. Read More…

Tagged Armada Productions, Warner Bros.

Old Man and the Sea, The

Posted on February 18, 2011 by wsherk

Adventure drama directed by John Sturges. Read More…

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Giant

Posted on February 18, 2011 by wsherk

Western directed by George Stevens, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean. Read More…

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Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, The

Posted on February 18, 2011 by wsherk

Biographical drama directed by Otto Preminger, starring Gary Cooper. Read More…

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Strange Lady in Town

Posted on February 18, 2011 by wsherk

Historical Western directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Read More…

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Land of the Pharaohs

Posted on February 18, 2011 by wsherk

Epic drama directed by Howard Hawks. This was Tiomkin’s fourth score for a Hawks directed film, having previously scored Only Angels Have Wings, Red River, and The Big Sky. Read More…

Tagged Continental Company Ltd., Warner Bros.

High and the Mighty, The

Posted on February 18, 2011 by wsherk

Aviation drama directed by William Wellman, starring John Wayne. Read More…

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Dial M for Murder

Posted on February 18, 2011 by wsherk

Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Grace Kelly. Read More…

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Command, The

Posted on February 18, 2011 by wsherk

Western directed by David Butler. Read More…

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I Confess

Posted on February 18, 2011 by wsherk

Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Read More…

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His Majesty O’Keefe

Posted on February 18, 2011 by wsherk

Historical adventure directed by Byron Haskin, starring Burt Lancaster. Read More…

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Blowing Wild

Posted on February 18, 2011 by wsherk

Action drama directed by Hugo Fregonese, starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Ruth Roman, Anthony Quinn. Read More…

Tagged United States Pictures, Warner Bros.

Bugles in the Afternoon

Posted on February 18, 2011 by wsherk

Western directed by Roy Rowland and starring Ray Milland, based on the novel by Ernest Haycox. Read More…

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Strangers on a Train

Posted on February 18, 2011 by wsherk

Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, and Robert Walker.

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Divide and Conquer

Posted on February 18, 2011 by wsherk

World War II documentary, part of the Why We Fight series. Tiomkin served as music director. Variant title: The Nazi’s Turn West. Read More…

Tagged U.S. War Department, Warner Bros.

Meet John Doe

Posted on February 18, 2011 by wsherk

Newspaper political drama directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. Read More…

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