Oh my gosh, I love Arnold's film music, but every one of his war films have basically the same main theme, and by that I don't I don't mean the same "style," I mean it's just slight variations on the same theme.
Break to Freedom (1953) The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954) Hell in Korea (1956) Tiger in the Smoke (1956) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Dunkirk (1958) The Thin Red Line (1964) The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
Plus three episodes of the "War in the Air" documentary television series (1954). Here's some of his music from THE THIN RED LINE:
DUNKIRK has not been released on a Region 1 DVD, although it is available for streaming or download. The original British version of the film ran 135 minutes, but when it was released in the U.S., it was cut to 115 minutes. The download version is listed as running 130 minutes.
Well done, Bob, and thank you for the info. Bumping this to see if there are any others who would prefer to recall an era of REAL film music (even if it has a "generic" tune that a most worthy British composer turned to when he was called upon to do a war film...)
