REMAKE SCORES, PART FIVE:
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
By Scott Bettencourt
In this latest installment of the Remake Scores series, we cover groups
of films that are not technically remakes, but which instead feature the
same historical incident or person(s), including cameos and fictionalizations
(like Citizen Kane).
Parts One,
Two,
Three
and Four
of this series are accessible on the website. Titles in quotation marks
denote television programs. Corrections, suggestions and additions are
always welcome.
THE ALAMO
1939 - MAN OF CONQUEST - Victor Young
1953 - THE MAN FROM THE ALAMO - Frank Skinner
1955 - THE LAST COMAND - Max Steiner
1960 - THE ALAMO - Dmitri Tiomkin
1987 - "THE ALAMO: THIRTEEN DAYS TO GLORY" - Peter Bernstein
1988 - ALAMO: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM - Merrill Jensen
2004 - THE ALAMO - Carter Burwell
MUHAMMAD ALI
1977 - THE GREATEST - Michael Masser
2001 - ALI - Pieter Bourke, Lisa Gerrard
ANASTASIA
1956 - ANASTASIA - Alfred Newman
1971 - NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA - Richard Rodney Bennett
1986 - "ANASTASIA: THE MYSTERY OF ANNA" - Laurence Rosenthal
1997 - ANASTASIA - David Newman, Stephen Flaherty
2003 - "THE LOST PRINCE" - Adrian Johnston
THE BRONTE SISTERS
1946 - DEVOTION - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
1979 - THE BRONTE SISTERS - Philippe Sarde
1983 - BRONTE - Arthur Harris
1992 - EMILY BRONTE'S WUTHERING HEIGHTS - Ryuichi Sakamoto
AL CAPONE
1959 - AL CAPONE - David Raksin
1967 - THE ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE - Lionel Newman, Fred Steiner
1975 - CAPONE - David Grisman
1981 - "SIZZLE" - Artie Butler
1987 - THE UNTOUCHABLES - Ennio Morricone
1987 - THE VERNE MILLER STORY - Thomas Chase, Steve Rucker
1988 - "FRANK NITTI: THE ENFORCER" - Yanni
1990 - "THE LOST CAPONE" - Mark Snow
1991 - MOBSTERS - Michael Small
(rejected score by Stewart Copeland)
1995 - BABY FACE NELSON - Christopher Lennertz
1995 - DILLINGER AND CAPONE - David Wurst, Eric Wurst
JULIUS CAESAR & CLEOPATRA
1934 - CLEOPATRA - Rudolph Kopp
1945 - CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA - Georges Auric
1953 - JULIUS CAESAR - Miklos Rozsa
1953 - SERPENT OF THE NILE - Mischa Bakaleinikoff (uncredited)
1960 - SPARTACUS - Alex North
1963 - CLEOPATRA - Alex North
1964 - CARRY ON CLEO - Eric Rogers
1970 - JULIUS CAESAR - Michael J. Lewis
1973 - ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA - John Scott
1976 - "CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA" - Michael J. Lewis
1981 - "ANTONY & CLEOPATRA" - Stephen Oliver
1999 - "CLEOPATRA" - Trevor Jones
2002 - "JULIUS CAESAR" - Carlo Siliotto
CATHERINE THE GREAT
1934 - CATHERINE THE GREAT - Ernst Toch (uncredited)
1945 - A ROYAL SCANDAL - Alfred Newman
1950 - SHADOW OF THE EAGLE - Hans May
1959 - JOHN PAUL JONES - Max Steiner
1962 - CATHERINE OF RUSSIA - Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
1968 - GREAT CATHERINE - Dimitri Tiomkin
1978 - EMELYAN PUGACHYOV - Andrei Eshpaj
1991 - "YOUNG CATHERINE" - Isaak Shvarts
1995 - "CATHERINE THE GREAT" - Laurence Rosenthal
WINSTON CHURCHILL
1972 - YOUNG WINSTON - Alfred Ralston
1975 - "JENNIE: LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL" - Andre Previn, Tom McCall
1981 - "WINSTON CHURCHILL: THE WILDERNESS YEARS" - Carl Davis
1983 - "THE WINDS OF WAR" - Robert Cobert
1988 - "WAR AND REMEMBRANCE" - Robert Cobert
1988 - "THE GREAT ESCAPE II: THE UNTOLD STORY" - Johnny Mandel
1990 - "A DANGEROUS MAN: LAWRENCE AFTER ARABIA" - Michel Sanvoisin
1993 - "DIEPPE" - Neal Smolar
1994 - "WORLD WAR II: WHEN LIONS ROARED" - John Morris
2002 - "THE GATHERING STORM" - Howard Goodall
BUFFALO BILL CODY
1937 - THE PLAINSMAN - George Antheil
1944 - BUFFALO BILL - David Buttolph
1947 - BUFFALO BILL RIDES AGAIN - Modest Altschuler
1949 - LAW OF THE GOLDEN WEST - Stanley Wilson
1950 - ANNIE GET YOUR GUN - Irving Berlin, Roger Edens, Adolph Deutsch
1951 - KING OF THE BULLWHIP - Walter Greene
1953 - PONY EXPRESS - Paul Sawtell
1958 - BADMAN'S COUNTRY - Irving Gertz
1963 - THE RAIDERS - Morton Stevens
1964 - BUFFALO BILL - Carlo Rustichelli
1966 - THE PLAINSMAN - John Williams
1974 - "THIS IS THE WEST THAT WAS" - Dick DeBenedictis
1976 - BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS - Richard Baskin
1979 - "THE LAST RIDE OF THE DALTON GANG" - Robert Cobert
1979 - "THE LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN GUN" - Jerrold Immel
1981 - THE LEGEND OF THE LONE RANGER - John Barry
1984 - "CALAMITY JANE" - Fred Karlin
1987 - "KENNY ROGERS AS THE GAMBLER III: THE LEGEND CONTINUES" - Larry
Cansler
1995 - "BUFFALO GIRLS" - Lee Holdridge
1995 - WILD BILL - Van Dyke Parks
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
1945 - WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? - David Raksin
1949 - CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS - Arthur Bliss
1985 - "CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS" - Riz Ortolani
1992 - CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: THE DISCOVERY - Cliff Eidelman
1992 - 1492: CONQUEST OF PARADISE - Vangelis
1992 - CARRY ON COLUMBUS - John DuPrez
GENERAL GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER
1937 - THE PLAINSMAN - George Anteil
1940 - WYOMING - David Snell
1940 - SANTA FE TRAIL - Max Steiner
1941 - THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON - Max Steiner
1941 - BADLANDS OF DAKOTA - Hans J. Salter
1951 - WARPATH - Paul Sawtell
1952 - BUGLES IN THE AFTERNOON - Dimitri Tiomkin
1954 - SITTING BULL - Raoul Kraushaar
1958 - TONKA - George Bruns, Oliver Wallace
1965 - THE GREAT SIOUX MASSACRE - Emil Newman
1966 - THE PLAINSMAN - John Williams
1967 - CUSTER OF THE WEST - Bernardo Segall
1970 - LITTLE BIG MAN - John Hammond
1979 - "THE LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN GUN" - Jerrold Immel
1981 - THE LEGEND OF THE LONE RANGER - John Barry
1991 - "SON OF THE MORNING STAR" - Craig Safan
1993 - "CLASS OF ë61" - John Debney
1995 - "BUFFALO GIRLS" - Lee Holdridge
1996 - "CRAZY HORSE" - Lennie Niehaus
D-DAY
1956 - D-DAY THE SIXTH OF JUNE - Leith Stevens
1962 - THE LONGEST DAY - Maurice Jarre
1964 - THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY - Johnny Mandel
1964 - 36 HOURS - Dimitri Tiomkin
1965 - UP FROM THE BEACH - Edgar Cosma
1998 - SAVING PRIVATE RYAN - John Williams
JAMES DEAN
1976 - "JAMES DEAN" - Billy Goldenberg
1978 - SEPTEMBER 30, 1955 - Leonard Rosenman
2001 - "JAMES DEAN" - John Frizzell
JOHN DILLINGER
1945 - DILLINGER - Dimitri Tiomkin
1957 - BABY FACE NELSON - Van Alexander
1957 - GUNS DON'T ARGUE - Paul Dunlap
1959 - THE FBI STORY - Max Steiner
1960 - MA BARKER'S KILLER BROOD - Guenther Kauer
1965 - YOUNG DILLINGER - Shorty Rogers
1973 - DILLINGER - Barry DeVorzon
1975 - "THE KANSAS CITY MASSACRE" - Robert Cobert
1979 - THE LADY IN RED - James Horner
1991 - "DILLINGER" - David McHugh
1995 - BABY FACE NELSON - Christopher Lennertz
1995 - DILLINGER AND CAPONE - David Wurtz, Eric Wurtz
ELIZABETH I
1937 - FIRE OVER ENGLAND - Richard Addinsell
1939 - THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
1953 - YOUNG BESS - Miklos Rozsa
1955 - THE VIRGIN QUEEN - Franz Waxman
1971 - MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS - John Barry
1998 - ELIZABETH - David Hirschfelder
1998 - SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE - Stephen Warbeck
AMY FISHER
1992 - "AMY FISHER: MY STORY" - Fred Mollin
1993 - "THE AMY FISHER STORY" - Michael Hoenig
1993 - "CASUALTIES OF LOVE: THE LONG ISLAND LOLITA STORY" - David Michael
Frank
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
1959 - BELOVED INFIDEL - Franz Waxman
1974 - "F. SCOTT FITZGERALD AND 'THE LAST OF THE BELLES'" - Don Sebesky
1976 - "F. SCOTT FITZGERALD IN HOLLYWOOD" - Morton Gould
1993 - "ZELDA" - Patrick Williams
1994 - MRS. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE - Mark Isham
2002 - "LAST CALL" - Brian Tyler
SIGMUND FREUD
1962 - FREUD - Jerry Goldsmith
1976 - THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION - John Addison
1983 - LOVESICK - Philippe Sarde
1985 - 1919 - Brian Gascoigne
GANDHI
1963 - NINE HOURS TO RAMA - Malcolm Arnold
1982 - GANDHI - Ravi Shankar, George Fenton
1986 - "LORD MOUNTBATTEN: THE LAST VICEROY" - John Scott
JUDY GARLAND
1978 - "RAINBOW" - Charles Fox
2001 - "LIFE WITH JUDY GARLAND: ME AND MY SHADOWS" - William Ross
GERONIMO
1939 - GERONIMO - Gerard Carbonara, John Leipold
1942 - VALLEY OF THE SUN - Paul Sawtell
1950 - I KILLED GERONIMO - Darrell Calker
1950 - BROKEN ARROW - Hugo Friedhofer
1951 - THE LAST OUTPOST - Lucien Cailliet
1952 - THE BATTLE AT APACHE PASS - Hans J. Salter
1954 - APACHE - David Raksin
1962 - GERONIMO - Hugo Friedhofer
1979 - "MR. HORN" - Jerry Fielding
1993 - "GERONIMO" - Patrick Williams
1993 - GERONIMO: AN AMERICAN LEGEND - Ry Cooder
VERONICA GUERIN
2000 - WHEN THE SKY FALLS - Pol Brennan
2003 - VERONICA GUERIN - Harry Gregson-Williams
DASHIELL HAMMETT
1977 - JULIA - Georges Delerue
1982 - HAMMETT - John Barry
1992 - "CITIZEN COHN" - Thomas Newman
1999 - "DASH AND LILLY" - Laura Karpman
JEAN HARLOW
1965 - HARLOW - Nelson Riddle
1965 - HARLOW - Neal Hefti
1977 - "THE AMAZING HOWARD HUGHES" - Laurence Rosenthal
1977 - HUGHES AND HARLOW: ANGELS IN HELL - Jimmie Haskell
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
1941 - CITIZEN KANE - Bernard Herrmann
1981 - "WINSTON CHURCHILL: THE WILDERNESS YEARS" - Carl Davis
1985 - "THE HEARST AND DAVIES AFFAIR" - Laurence Rosenthal
1992 - CHAPLIN - John Barry
1994 - "MILLION DOLLAR BABIES" - Christopher Dedrick
1997 - "ROUGH RIDERS" - Peter Bernstein
1998 - "WINCHELL" - Bill Conti
1999 - "RKO 281" - John Altman
1999 - CRADLE WILL ROCK - David Robbins
2002 - THE CAT'S MEOW - Ian Whitcomb
HENRY II
1964 - BECKET - Laurence Rosenthal
1968 - THE LION IN WINTER - John Barry
1994 - NOSTRADAMUS - Barrington Pheloung
HENRY VIII
1933 - THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII - Kurt Schroder
1937 - THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
1953 - YOUNG BESS - Miklos Rozsa
1953 - THE SWORD AND THE ROSE - Clifton Parker
1966 - A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS - Georges Delerue
1969 - ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS - Georges Delerue
1971 - CARRY ON HENRY - Eric Rogers
1978 - CROSSED SWORDS - Maurice Jarre
1988 - "A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS" - Julia Downes
2000 - "THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER" - Stanislas Syrewicz
WILD BILL HICKOK
1937 - THE PLAINSMAN - George Antheil
1942 - WILD BILL HICKOK RIDES - Howard Jackson
1950 - DALLAS - Max Steiner
1953 - PONY EXPRESS - Paul Sawtell
1953 - THE LAWLESS BREED - Joseph Gershenson
1963 - THE RAIDERS - Morton Stevens
1965 - THE OUTLAWS IS COMING - Paul Dunlap
1966 - THE PLAINSMAN - John Williams
1970 - LITTLE BIG MAN - John Hammond
1974 - "THIS IS THE WEST THAT WAS" - Dick DeBenedictis
1977 - THE WHITE BUFFALO - John Barry
1980 - "WILD TIMES" - Jerrold Immel
1981 - THE LEGEND OF THE LONE RANGER - John Barry
1984 - "CALAMITY JANE" - Fred Karlin
1995 - WILD BILL - Van Dyke Parks
1995 - "BUFFALO GIRLS" - Lee Holdridge
1999 - "PURGATORY" - Brad Fiedel
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