Filmography

The following list includes films and television productions containing music by Tiomkin (credited and uncredited).

1929

Devil May Care

Historical musical with an Albertina Rasch ballet sequence, Love Ballet, filmed in Technicolor, with music by Tiomkin. READ RELATED: Albertina Rasch

1930

Crazy House

Comedy short with an Albertina Rasch ballet sequence with music by Dimitri Tiomkin. READ: Crazy House released on DVD.
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Lord Byron of Broadway

Musical with Albertina Rasch ballet sequences, “Blue Daughter of Heaven” and “Ballet Music,” both with music by Dimitri Tiomkin. Read More...
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Our Blushing Brides

Drama with two Albertina Rasch ballet sequences, "Fashion Ballet" and "Mars Ballet," both with music by Tiomkin. Read More...
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Rogue Song, The

Musical with an Albertina Rasch ballet sequence, “Ballet Music,” with music by Tiomkin. The music for the film is by Herbert Stothart. Read More...
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1931

Devil's Cabaret, The

Historical musical with an Albertina Rasch ballet sequences, Love Ballet and Hades Ballet, filmed in Technicolor, with music by Tiomkin. Read More...
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Resurrection

English-language adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel, directed by Edwin Carewe. Read More...
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1933

Alice in Wonderland

Fantasy directed by Norman Z. McLeod based on the original novel by Lewis Carroll. Tiomkin co-wrote a dozen songs with Paramount music director Nathaniel Finston. Songs include Beautiful Soup; Drinking Song; Duchess Lullaby; Morris Dance; Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee; … Read More...
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Broadway to Hollywood

Musical with sections of two Albertina Rasch ballets, “Snow” and “Violin,” accompanied with music by Tiomkin. The Rasch ballet sequences were originally filmed in Technicolor for the March of Time, which was abandoned in 1930. Variant titles: Show World; March … Read More...
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Roast Beef and Movies

Comedy short with two Albertina Rasch ballet sequences “Chinese Scherzo,” and “Blue Daughter of Heaven,” with music by Tiomkin. Read More...
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1935

Casino Murder Case, The

Mystery directed by Edwin L. Marin. Read More...
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I Live My Life

Society comedy-drama directed by W. S. Van Dyke. Read More...
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Mad Love

Horror film directed by Karl Freund and starring Peter Lorre. Variant titles: The Hands of Orlac (UK); Les Mains D'Orlac; The Oar of Orlac; Chamber of Horrors. Read More...
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1936

More Than a Secretary

Romantic comedy. Morris Stoloff is credited as the music director. The “Main Title,” also known as “Morris Dance,” was written by Dimitri Tiomkin for Alice in Wonderland (1933) and tracked into this film. The remainder of the film is tracked … Read More...
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1937

Lost Horizon

Adventure-fantasy film directed by Frank Capra. In the 1930s Tiomkin met Frank Capra at a party and a personal friendship blossomed. The two first worked together on Lost Horizon. The score helped make Tiomkin’s reputation as a creator of music on a grand … Read More...
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Road Back, The

Post-World War I drama directed by James Whale. Variant title: Time Out of Mind Read More...
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1938

Great Waltz, The

Biographical musical depicting the life of Johann Strauss, with Albertina Rasch ballet sequences. Variant title: The Life of Johann Strauss Read More...
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Spawn of the North

Drama directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, John Barrymore, and Akim Tamiroff. Read More...
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You Can't Take It With You

Screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra. Read More...
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1939

Daredevils of the Red Circle

Serial in twelve chapters.
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Mister Smith Goes to Washington

Political comedy drama directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart. Read More...
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Only Angels Have Wings

Drama directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, and Richard Barthelmess. Read More...
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1940

Lucky Partners

Comedy drama directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Ronald Colman and Ginger Rogers. Read More...
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Westerner, The

Western directed by William Wyler, starring Gary Cooper. The film includes music by Tiomkin and Alfred Newman. Read More...
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1941

Flying Blind

Aviation drama produced by Pine-Thomas Productions (William Pine and William Thomas), starring Richard Arlen and Jean Parker. Read More...
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Forced Landing

Aviation drama produced by Pine-Thomas Productions (William Pine and William Thomas), starring Richard Arlen and Eva Gabor. Read More...
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Meet John Doe

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

Comedy drama directed by Christy Cabanne. Guy Kibbee plays Scattergood Baines, a character based on a popular radio program. The film was edited by John Sturges, who later chose Tiomkin to score his directorial efforts for Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Old Man and the Sea, and Last Train from Gun Hill. Variant titles: Scattergood on Broadway; Blonde Menace (TV title) Read More...
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1942

Corsican Brothers, The

Adventure directed by Gregory Ratoff, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Ruth Warrick, and Akim Tamiroff. Variant title: Vendetta
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Gentleman after Dark, A

Crime drama directed by Edwin L. Marin, starring Brian Donlevy and Miriam Hopkins. Variant title: Heliotrope Harry Read More...
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Moon and Sixpence, The

The Moon and Sixpence served as the first of many collaborations between Tiomkin and the film’s associate producer, Stanley Kramer. It also marked the directorial debut of the producer Albert Lewin, who would go on to helm The Picture of Dorian Gray. Tiomkin previously had worked with Lewin on Spawn of the North. For The Moon and Sixpence, Lewin himself adapted the screenplay from W. Somerset Maugham’s novel of the same name. The film chronicles the excesses of Charles Strickland, an abusive artist who abandons his wife and family, cavorts with a friend’s wife (who in turn commits suicide), and then sets off for Tahiti, where he marries a native teenage girl. Read More...
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Our Russian Front

World War II documentary produced by Russian War Relief, Inc. Tiomkin served as music director. Variant title: Report from Russia Read More...
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Twin Beds

Domestic comedy directed by Tim Whelan. Read More...
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1943

Battle of Britain, The

World War II documentary, part of the Why We Fight series. Tiomkin served as music director. Variant titles: Battle for New Britian; Attack! - The Battle for New Britian; War in the East. Read More...
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Battle of Russia, The

World War II documentary, part of the Why We Fight series. Tiomkin served as music director. Variant title: Know Your Ally: Russia Read More...
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Divide and Conquer

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...
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Know Your Ally: Britain

World War II documentary and orientation film. Tiomkin served as music director. Read More...
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Nazi's Strike, The

World War II documentary, part of the Why We Fight series. Tiomkin served as music director. Read More...
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Shadow of a Doubt

Suspense drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Read More...
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Substitution and Conversion

World War II documentary and orientation film. Tiomkin served as music director. Read More...
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Unknown Guest

A mystery directed by Kurt Neumann. Variant titles: I Was a Criminal; The Uninvited Guest. Read More...
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1944

Battle of China, The

World War II documentary, part of the Why We Fight series. Tiomkin served as music director. Variant title: War in the East. Read More...
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Bridge of San Luis Rey, The

Drama directed by Rowland V. Lee, starring Lynn Bari, Akim Tamiroff, Francis Lederer, Alla Nazimova. Read More...
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Imposter, The

War drama. Variant titles: Passport to Dakar; Bayonet Charge; Strange Confession (reissue title) Read More...
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Ladies Courageous

World War II aviation drama. Read More...
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Negro Soldier, The

World War II documentary and orientation film. Tiomkin served as music director. Read More...
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Tunisian Victory

World War II documentary produced by the U.S. War Department and Great Britain British and Indian Army Film Units. Dimitri Tiomkin served as music director. Variant Titles: Africa Freed. Read More...
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When Strangers Marry

Suspense drama directed by William Castle. Variant titles: Betrayed (reissue title); They Shall Have Faith; I Married a Stranger Read More...
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1945

China's Little Devils

War drama directed by Monta Bell, starring Harry Carey. Variant title: Little Daredevils (working title) Read More...
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Dillinger

Dillinger is a fictionalized melodrama focusing on the crime spree of John Dillinger, the legendary 1930s-era bank robber. It was produced by King Bros. Productions, a company formed in 1942 by Frank, Herman, and Maurice King, who had previously hired Tiomkin to score their 1943 feature Unknown Guest. Tiomkin provides a lengthy, robust score that fills three quarters of the production’s running time, with the galloping rhythms for the crime montage and pursuit sequences balanced by a tender romantic theme. The critic for the Hollywood Reporter observed that “Dimitri Tiomkin’s score, with its piano dissonants [sic] contributes enormously to the suspense and dramatic evolution.” Read More...
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Forever Yours

A drama, with songs, from Monogram Pictures, directed by William Nigh, starring Gale Storm, with C. Aubrey Smith and Johnny Mack Brown. Variant titles: They Shall Have Faith; They Shall Walk; The Right to Live. Read More...
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Here Is Germany

World War II documentary and orientation film. Tiomkin served as music director. Variant title: Know Your Enemy: Germany Read More...
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Let There Be Light

World War II documentary film directed by John Huston, first released in 1980. Tiomkin served as music director. Variant title: Returning Soldier - The Psychoneurotic (working title) Read More...
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Operation Titanic

World War II documentary. The world premiere was held at the Titania Palast Theater in Berlin, Germany, on July 28, 1945.
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Pardon My Past

Screwball comedy
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San Pietro

World War II documentary and historical film. Tiomkin served as music director. Variant title: The Battle of San Pietro Read More...
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Two Down - One to Go

Tiomkin served as music director for this World War II U.S. War Department documentary supervised by Frank Capra. Variant title: Two Down and One to Go! Read More...
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War Comes to America

World War II documentary, part of the Why We Fight series. Tiomkin served as music director.
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1946

Angel on My Shoulder

Romantic comedy directed by Archie Mayo, starring Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, and Claude Rains. Read More...
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Black Beauty

Family drama directed by Max Nosseck, with Mona Freeman, Richard Denning, and Evelyn Ankers. Read More...
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Dark Mirror, The

Psychological mystery directed by Robert Siodmak and produced by Nunnally Johnson. Read More...
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Whistle Stop

Film noir melodrama with George Raft and Ava Gardner. Read More...
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1947

Duel in the Sun

Western directed by King Vidor for David O. Selznick. Read More...
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It's a Wonderful Life

Comedy-drama directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart and Donna Reed.
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Long Night, The

Crime drama directed by Anatole Litvak, starring Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, and Ann Dvorak. Variant title: A Time to Kill. Read More...
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1948

Dude Goes West, The

Comedy Western. Variant title: The Tenderfoot. Read More...
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Red River

Western directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. Read More...
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So This Is New York

Comedy directed by Richard Fleischer. Variant title: A Great Place to Visit. Read More...
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Tarzan and the Mermaids

Jungle adventure directed by Robert Florey, starring Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, and introducing Linda Christian.
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1949

Canadian Pacific

Western, directed by Edwin L. Marin. Produced by Nat Holt. Read More...
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Champion

Drama directed by Mark Robson from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, starring Kirk Douglas. Read More...
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Home of the Brave

World War II drama directed by Mark Robson and produced by Stanley Kramer.
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Portrait of Jennie

Fantasy directed by William Dieterle and produced by David O. Selznick. Variant titles: Tidal Wave; Jenne (UK). Read More...
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Red Light

Crime drama directed by Roy Del Ruth. Variant title: Mr. Gideon READ: Red Light: Gideon Bibles and Vengeance, or Film noir meets Religion
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1950

Champagne for Caesar

Comedy directed by Richard Whorf and starring Ronald Colman and Celeste Holm. Read More...
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D.O.A.

Rudolph Maté directed this film noir suspense thriller, released by United Artists in 1950. The cast includes Edmond O’Brien as an accountant desperately in search of the killer who lethally poisoned him. D.O.A. was the first in a trio of films produced by brothers Harry and Leo Popkin, with music by Tiomkin. Tiomkin was an early practitioner of placing theme music in the source score, as he does in “Juke Box Theme,” a light dance arrangement of the film’s love theme. Variant title: Dead on Arrival. Read More...
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Dakota Lil

Western, with songs.
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Guilty Bystander

Film noir.
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Men, The

Post-World War II drama directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Marlon Brando. Based on the story and screenplay by Carl Foreman. Variant title: Battle Stripe (reissue title). Read More...
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1951

Cyrano de Bergerac

Historical romance directed by Michael Gordon from an adapted screenplay by Carl Foreman. José Ferrer received an Academy Award for his portrayal of Cyrano, the title character. READ: Cyrano de Bergerac soundtrack released
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Drums in the Deep South

Historical war drama directed by William Cameron Menzies. Read More...
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Mister Universe

Comedy.
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Peking Express

Political war drama directed by William Dieterle and produced by Hal Wallis. Read More...
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Strangers on a Train

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

Science fiction from Howard Hawks, directed by Christian Nyby, starring Kenneth Tobey, and Margaret Sheridan. Variant title: The Thing From Another World (UK). Read More...
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Well, The

Social drama co-directed by Leo Popkin. Variant title: Deep Is the Well. Read More...
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1952

Big Sky, The

Historical adventure directed by Howard Hawks, starring Kirk Douglas. Read More...
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Bugles in the Afternoon

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

Comedy-drama directed by Irving Reis. READ: The Four Poster soundtrack released
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Happy Time, The

Historical comedy directed by Richard Fleischer. Read More...
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High Noon

Western directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Gary Cooper. Carl Foreman was associate producer. Read More...
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Lady in the Iron Mask, The

Serial in twelve chapters. Read More...
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Mutiny

War drama directed by Edward Dmytryk. Read More...
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My Six Convicts

Prison drama. Read More...
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Steel Trap, The

Suspense drama directed by Andrew Stone. Variant title: Panic Stricken. Read More...
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1953

Angel Face

Film noir directed by Otto Preminger, presented by Howard Hughes. Variant titles: "The Murder" and "The Bystander" Read More...
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Blowing Wild

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

Korean War reenactment directed by Owen Crump. Produced by Hal Wallis and in 3-D. Read More...
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His Majesty O'Keefe

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

Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Read More...
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Jeopardy

The plot of Jeopardy revolves around an American family on vacation in Mexico and their encounter with an escaped convict and psychopath, played with relish by Ralph Meeker. The film’s direction (by John Sturges), screenplay (by Mel Dinelli), and cast­—with Barbara Stanwyck … Read More...
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Return to Paradise

South Seas drama directed by Mark Robson, starring Gary Cooper. Read More...
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Take the High Ground

Military drama directed by Richard Brooks. Dore Schary, producer; Millard Kaufman, writer; John Alton, cinematographer. With Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, and Elaine Stewart. The IMDb synopsis: In 1953, at Fort Bliss, Texas, two former Korean War combat veterans work as drill … Read More...
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1954

Adventures of Hajji Baba, The

Adventure film. Read More...
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Bullet Is Waiting, A

Drama directed by John Farrow, starring Rory Calhoun, Jean Simmons. Read More...
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Command, The

Western directed by David Butler. Read More...
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Dial M for Murder

Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Grace Kelly. Read More...
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High and the Mighty, The

Aviation drama directed by William Wellman, starring John Wayne. Read More...
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1955

Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, The

Biographical drama directed by Otto Preminger, starring Gary Cooper. Read More...
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Land of the Pharaohs

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...
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Strange Lady in Town

Historical Western directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Read More...
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1956

Friendly Persuasion

Civil War comedy-drama directed by William Wyler, starring Gary Cooper.
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Giant

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

Western. Directed by Charles Marquis Warren, starring Richard Egan, Dorothy Malone. Read More...
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1957

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Western directed by John Sturges, starring Kirk Douglas. READ: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral soundtrack released
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Night Passage

Western, with songs. Directed by James Neilson, starring James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea. READ: National Train Day
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Search for Paradise

Cinerama travelogue documentary directed by Otto Lang and produced by Lowell Thomas. Read More...
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1958

Old Man and the Sea, The

Adventure drama directed by John Sturges. Read More...
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Wild is the Wind

Domestic drama directed by George Cukor. READ: Wild Is the Wind soundtrack released Read More...
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1959

Hotel de Paree

When Robert Aldrich directed the pilot of Hotel de Paree for CBS in 1959 he called on Tiomkin for the music. For Hotel de Paree Tiomkin provided the series theme and underscore for the pilot episode, “Sundance Returns,” also known as “Sundance Comes Home,” that aired on October 2, 1959. FURTHER READING: Why did Dimitri Tiomkin bow out of scoring two Robert Aldrich films? Read More...
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Last Train from Gun Hill

Western directed by John Sturges and produced by Hal Wallis. Variant titles: Last Train from Harper's Junction; Last Train from Laredo; One Angry Day; Showdown at Gunhill READ: Last Train from Gun Hill soundtrack released Read More...
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Rawhide

TV series with title theme by Tiomkin. Read More...
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Rhapsody of Steel

Animated documentary. Read More...
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Rio Bravo

Western directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne. Read More...
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Young Land, The

Western directed by Ted Tetzlaff, starring Patrick Wayne, Yvonne Craig, Dennis Hopper, Dan O’Herlihy. Read More...
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1960

Alamo, The

Western directed by, and starring, John Wayne. Read More...
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Spirit of the Alamo, The

Pontiac Spectacular television special on the making of The Alamo featuring tracked music by Tiomkin. Read More...
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Sundowners, The

Historical comedy-drama directed by Fred Zinnemann. Read More...
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Unforgiven, The

Western directed by John Huston. READ: Unforgiven soundtrack released Read More...
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1961

Guns of Navarone, The

World War II action drama directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by Carl Foreman. The film stars Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn.

READ: Guns of Navarone now in Blu-ray

READ: Guns of Navarone suite in concert performances

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Gunslinger

Made-for-television film. Read More...
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Last Sunset, The

Theme song, “Pretty Little Girl in the Yellow Dress,” by Tiomkin. The film was scored by Ernest Gold. READ: Why did Dimitri Tiomkin bow out of scoring two Robert Aldrich films? Read More...
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Town Without Pity

Drama directed by Gottfried Reinhart, starring Kirk Douglas. Variant title: Shocker Read More...
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1962

Without Each Other

Drama directed by Saul Swimmer, starring Tony Anthony. Read More...
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1963

55 Days at Peking

A dramatization of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion by director Nicholas Ray and producer Samuel Bronston. Read More...
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1964

Circus World

Drama directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne. Read More...
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Fall of the Roman Empire, The

Epic historical drama directed by Anthony Mann, starring Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason. Read More...
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1965

36 Hours

World War II drama directed by George Seaton starring James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, and Rod Taylor. Read More...
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President's Country, A

Lyndon B. Johnson documentary. Read More...
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1967

The War Wagon

Western directed by Burt Kennedy, starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas. READ: War Wagon soundtrack released Read More...
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1968

Great Catherine

Comedy drama. Directed by Gordon Flemyng, starring Peter O’Toole, Zero Mostel, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Hawkins. Read More...
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1969

Mackenna's Gold

Western co-produced by Tiomkin, starring Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif. The film was scored by Quincy Jones.
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1971

Tchaikovsky

Tiomkin returned to his native Russia to film this historical biography for which he arranged the music and served as executive producer. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in the foreign language film category.

VIEW: Tchaikovsky photo gallery

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