Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann (1992)

Music For The Movies: Bernard Herrmann explores the work of a composer who created music for over 50 films, collaborating with such diverse directors as Orson Welles, Nicholas Ray, and Martin Scorsese. Best remembered for his twelve-year collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock in such classics as Vertigo, North By Northwest, and the unforgettable Psycho, Herrmann pioneered many fundamental techniques of film scoring in the course of his 35-year career.

Directed by: Joshua Waletzky

Cast: James G. Stewart, Virginia Majewski, Royal S. Brown, Philip Bosco, Paul Hirsch, Norman Corwin, Martin Scorsese, Lucille Fletcher, Louis Kaufman, Alan Robinson - Himself, Elmer Bernstein, Don Cristlieb

Genres: Documentary, Music, Musical

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