Budd Schulberg testifying for the HUAC in 1951
Budd Schulberg wrote the screenplay for On the Waterfront. Everyone knows lines from the movie, such as the speech Marlon Brando makes sitting beside his soon-to-be-killed older brother Rod Steiger in the back of a cab. But not everyone knows who wrote the movie's haunting music. Do you?
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Leonard Bernstein wrote the music. Indeed, I think it was his only film score, but I could be wrong about that. He didn't win an Oscar for it, but he was nominated.
Posted by: Larry Epstein | August 07, 2009 at 02:22 PM
You're right, of course, Larry. I think Lenny's music for that movie is sublime. Unusual. I wonder who won the Oscar for score that year? I know Brando beat out James Mason in "A Star is Born" for best actor. BTW did you ever consider the possibility of the very first notes you hear in "West Side Story" is the sound of a shofar (tekiyah) transposed to horns? (Which ones? I'll have to play it again.)
Posted by: DL | August 08, 2009 at 04:52 PM