Tag Archives: Columbia Pictures
September 2021
Dimitri Tiomkin options Will Henry’s novel and co-produces Mackenna’s Gold, part two
READ Part one: August 2021 Dimitri Tiomkin options Will Henry’s novel and co-produces Mackenna’s Gold A new approach to scoring A composer “who scores a film should be involved in everything about it from the very beginning,” maintains Dimitri Tiomkin to a …
August 2021
Dimitri Tiomkin options Will Henry’s novel and co-produces Mackenna’s Gold
by Warren M. Sherk As 1964 draws to a close, Dimitri Tiomkin secures an option from American novelist Will Henry for the motion picture rights to his Western novel, Mackenna’s Gold, published by Random House the year before. With a penchant …
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 …
Mackenna’s Gold
Western co-produced by Tiomkin, starring Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif. The film was scored by Quincy Jones.
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
READ: Tadlow Music to release The Guns of Navorone recording
Young Land, The
Four Poster, The
Comedy-drama directed by Irving Reis. READ: The Four Poster soundtrack released