The Register
By Lester Haines
Published Monday 3rd October 2005 13:58 GMT
It's all go in the wonderful world of movie polls, and hot on the butt-naked heels of last week's revelation that the pool romp scene between Elizabeth Berkley and Kyle MacLachlan was the worst screen rumpy-pumpy ever, we have the news that Star Wars has claimed the best film music crown.
That's according to the American Film Institute, which gives John Williams no less than three spots in the top twenty, with Jaws and E.T. also getting a round of applause.
The 500 film artists, composers, musicians, critics, pundits and historians polled placed Gone With The Wind in second, closely followed by the rather marvellous Lawrence Of Arabia. The full listing is:
Star Wars - John Williams
Gone With The Wind - Max Steiner
Lawrence Of Arabia - Maurice Jarre
Psycho - Bernard Herrmann
The Godfather - Nino Rota
Jaws - John Williams
Laura - David Raksin
The Magnificent Seven - Elmer Bernstein
Chinatown - Jerry Goldsmith
High Noon - Dimitri Tiomkin
The Adventures Of Robin Hood - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Vertigo - Bernard Herrmann
King Kong - Max Steiner
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - John Williams
Out Of Africa - John Barry
Sunset Blvd. - Franz Waxman
To Kill A Mockingbird - Elmer Bernstein
Planet Of The Apes - Jerry Goldsmith
A Streetcar Named Desire - Alex North
The Pink Panther - Henry Mancini.
Sadly, no gong for Showgirls on this occasion, despite its heady mix of full-frontal nudity and cracking dialogue set to a throbbing backbeat of Las Vegas production numbers. For shame. ®
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