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Roy Webb

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Roy Webb (né Royden Denslow Webb; October 3, 1888 – December 10, 1982) was an American film music composer. [1]

97 relations: Abe Lincoln in Illinois (film), Academy Award for Best Original Score, Alma mater, Arizona Legion, Back to Bataan, Becky Sharp, Bedlam (film), Bernard Herrmann, Blood Alley, Bride by Mistake, Bringing Up Baby, Broadway theatre, Cat People (1942 film), Cinerama, Citizen Kane, Columbia University, Constantin Bakaleinikoff, Curtain Call (1940 film), Dangerous Mission, Down to Their Last Yacht, Easy Living (1949 film), Enchanted April (1935 film), Experiment Perilous, Film noir, Film score, Fixed Bayonets!, Flying Leathernecks, Gangway for Tomorrow, Hitler's Children (1943 film), Hollywood Bowl, Horror film, Houdini (film), I Married a Witch, I Remember Mama (film), I Walked with a Zombie, In Name Only, Joan of Paris, Journey into Fear (1943 film), Los Angeles Philharmonic, Manhattan, Marty (film), Mighty Joe Young (1949 film), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941 film), Murder, My Sweet, My Favorite Wife, My Friend Irma (film), Myocardial infarction, Notorious (1946 film), Operation Secret, Our Betters, ..., Our Miss Brooks, Out of the Past, Quality Street (1937 film), RKO Pictures, Roar, Lion, Roar, Room Service (1938 film), Sealed Cargo, Second Chance (1953 film), Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend, Split Second (1953 film), Stage Door, Stranger on the Third Floor, Sylvia Scarlett, Tall in the Saddle, Teacher's Pet (1958 film), The Big Street, The Body Snatcher (film), The Curse of the Cat People, The Enchanted Cottage (1945 film), The Falcon in Danger, The Falcon Out West, The Fallen Sparrow, The Fighting Seabees, The Girl He Left Behind, The Great Man Votes, The Leopard Man, The Locket, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Magnificent Ambersons (film), The Raid (1954 film), The River Changes, The Sea Chase, The Secret Fury, The Seventh Cross, The Seventh Victim, The Spiral Staircase (1946 film), The White Tower (film), The Window (film), The Woman I Love, They Won't Believe Me, This Is Cinerama, Track of the Cat, Two O'Clock Courage, Val Lewton, Vendetta (1950 film), Wagon Train, Where Danger Lives. Expand index (47 more) »

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (film)

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.

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Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.

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Alma mater

Alma mater (Latin: "nourishing/kind", "mother"; pl.) is an allegorical Latin phrase for a university or college.

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Arizona Legion

Arizona Legion is a 1939 American western film directed by David Howard from a screenplay by Oliver Drake, based on Bernard McConville's story.

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Back to Bataan

Back to Bataan is a 1945 American black-and-white World War II war film drama from RKO Radio Pictures, produced by Robert Fellows, directed by Edward Dmytryk, that stars John Wayne and Anthony Quinn.

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Becky Sharp

Becky Sharp is a 1935 American historical drama film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Miriam Hopkins.

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Bedlam (film)

Bedlam (1946) is a film starring Boris Karloff and Anna Lee, and was the last in a series of stylish horror B films produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures.

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Bernard Herrmann

Bernard Herrmann (born Max Herman; June 29, 1911December 24, 1975) was an American composer best known for his work in composing for motion pictures.

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Blood Alley

Blood Alley is a 1955 American seafaring Cold War adventure film drama shot in CinemaScope and Warnercolor from Warner Bros., produced by and starring John Wayne, directed by William A. Wellman, that also stars Lauren Bacall.

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Bride by Mistake

Bride by Mistake (1944) is an American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Wallace, and starring Alan Marshal and Laraine Day.

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Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Cat People (1942 film)

Cat People is a 1942 horror film produced by Val Lewton and directed by Jacques Tourneur.

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Cinerama

Cinerama is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35 mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen, subtending 146° of arc.

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Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 American mystery drama film by Orson Welles, its producer, co-screenwriter, director and star.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Constantin Bakaleinikoff

Constantin Romanovich Bakaleinikov (also spelled Bakaleynikov and Bakaleinikoff; Константин Романович Бакалейников; 26 April 1896 – 3 September 1966) was a Russian-born composer.

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Curtain Call (1940 film)

Curtain Call is a 1940 comedy, directed by Frank Woodruff and starring Barbara Read, Helen Vinson, Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride.

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Dangerous Mission

Dangerous Mission is a 1954 Technicolor film noir thriller film starring Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, Vincent Price, and William Bendix.

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Down to Their Last Yacht

Down to Their Last Yacht is a 1934 comedy adventure produced and distributed by RKO Pictures.

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Easy Living (1949 film)

Easy Living is a 1949 American drama film directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Victor Mature, Lizabeth Scott and Lucille Ball.

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Enchanted April (1935 film)

Enchanted April is a 1935 American comedy drama film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Ann Harding, Frank Morgan and Katharine Alexander.

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Experiment Perilous

Experiment Perilous is a 1944 melodrama set at the turn of the 20th century.

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Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those which emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.

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Film score

A film score (also sometimes called background score, background music, film soundtrack, film music, or incidental music) is original music written specifically to accompany a film.

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Fixed Bayonets!

Fixed Bayonets! is a 1951 war film written and directed by Samuel Fuller and produced by Twentieth Century-Fox during the Korean War.

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Flying Leathernecks

Flying Leathernecks is a 1951 Technicolor action war film directed by Nicholas Ray, produced by Edmund Grainger, (who had produced Sands of Iwo Jima) and starring John Wayne and Robert Ryan.

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Gangway for Tomorrow

Gangway for Tomorrow is a 1943 American anthology film produced and directed by the Austrian-American John H. Auer, and originally known by its working title, An American Story.

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Hitler's Children (1943 film)

Hitler's Children is a 1943 American black-and-white propaganda film made by RKO Radio Pictures.

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Hollywood Bowl

The Hollywood Bowl is an amphitheater in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

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Horror film

A horror film is a film that seeks to elicit a physiological reaction, such as an elevated heartbeat, through the use of fear and shocking one’s audiences.

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Houdini (film)

Houdini is a 1953 American Technicolor film biography from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal and Berman Swarttz, directed by George Marshall, that stars Tony Curtis and his then-wife Janet Leigh.

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I Married a Witch

I Married a Witch is a 1942 American fantasy romantic comedy film, directed by René Clair, and starring Veronica Lake as a witch whose plan for revenge goes comically awry, with Fredric March as her foil.

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I Remember Mama (film)

I Remember Mama is a 1948 American drama film directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by DeWitt Bodeen, whose work was adapted from John Van Druten's eponymous stage play.

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I Walked with a Zombie

I Walked with a Zombie is a 1943 horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur.

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In Name Only

In Name Only is a 1939 romantic film starring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard and Kay Francis, directed by John Cromwell. It was based on the 1935 novel Memory of Love by Bessie Breuer.

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Joan of Paris

Joan of Paris is a 1942 war film about five Royal Air Force pilots shot down over Nazi-occupied France during World War II and their attempt to escape to England.

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Journey into Fear (1943 film)

Journey into Fear is a 1943 American spy film directed by Norman Foster, based on the Eric Ambler novel of the same name.

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Los Angeles Philharmonic

The Los Angeles Philharmonic (LA Phil or LAP) is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Marty (film)

Marty is a 1955 American romantic drama film directed by Delbert Mann.

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Mighty Joe Young (1949 film)

Mighty Joe Young (also known as Mr. Joseph Young of Africa and The Great Joe Young) is a 1949 American black-and-white fantasy film from RKO Radio Pictures made by the same creative team responsible for King Kong (1933).

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Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941 film)

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Murder, My Sweet

Murder, My Sweet (released as Farewell, My Lovely in the United Kingdom) is a 1944 American film noir, directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor and Anne Shirley.

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My Favorite Wife

My Favorite Wife (released in the U.K. as My Favourite Wife) is a 1940 screwball comedy produced and co-written by Leo McCarey and directed by Garson Kanin.

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My Friend Irma (film)

My Friend Irma is a 1949 American comedy film directed by George Marshall, and is most notable as the film debut of the comedy team Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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Notorious (1946 film)

Notorious is a 1946 American spy film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation.

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Operation Secret

Operation Secret is a 1952 American drama film directed by Lewis Seiler and written by Harold Medford and James R. Webb.

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Our Betters

Our Betters is a 1933 American pre-Code satirical comedy film directed by George Cukor.

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Our Miss Brooks

Our Miss Brooks is an American sitcom starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high-school English teacher.

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Out of the Past

Out of the Past (billed in the United Kingdom as Build My Gallows High) is a 1947 film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas.

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Quality Street (1937 film)

Quality Street is a 1937 period film made by RKO Radio Pictures.

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RKO Pictures

RKO Pictures was an American film production and distribution company.

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Roar, Lion, Roar

Roar, Lion, Roar is the fight song for the Columbia Lions.

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Room Service (1938 film)

Room Service is a 1938 RKO film comedy directed by William A. Seiter, based on the 1937 play of the same name by Allen Boretz and John Murray.

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Sealed Cargo

Sealed Cargo is a 1951 American war film about a fisherman, played by Dana Andrews, who gets tangled up with Nazis and their U-boats.

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Second Chance (1953 film)

Second Chance is a 1953 Technicolor film noir crime film directed by Rudolph Maté.

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Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend

Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend is a 1957 Western film directed by Richard L. Bare and starring Randolph Scott, James Craig and Angie Dickinson.

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Split Second (1953 film)

Split Second is a 1953 American film noir thriller directed by Dick Powell about escaped convicts and their hostages holed up in a ghost town, unaware of the grave danger they are in.

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Stage Door

Stage Door is a 1937 RKO film directed by Gregory La Cava.

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Stranger on the Third Floor

Stranger on the Third Floor is a 1940 RKO Radio Pictures film noir directed by Boris Ingster and starring Peter Lorre, John McGuire, and Margaret Tallichet, and featuring Elisha Cook Jr..

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Sylvia Scarlett

Sylvia Scarlett is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, based on The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett, a novel by Compton MacKenzie.

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Tall in the Saddle

Tall in the Saddle is a 1944 American Western film directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring John Wayne and Ella Raines.

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Teacher's Pet (1958 film)

Teacher's Pet is a 1958 American romantic comedy film directed by George Seaton, and stars Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young and Mamie Van Doren.

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The Big Street

The Big Street is a 1942 American drama film starring Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball, based on the short story "Little Pinks" by Damon Runyon, who also produced the movie.

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The Body Snatcher (film)

The Body Snatcher is a 1945 horror film directed by Robert Wise based on the short story "The Body Snatcher" by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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The Curse of the Cat People

The Curse of the Cat People is a 1944 film directed by Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, and produced by Val Lewton.

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The Enchanted Cottage (1945 film)

The Enchanted Cottage is a 1945 romantic fantasy starring Robert Young, Dorothy McGuire, and Mildred Natwick.

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The Falcon in Danger

The Falcon in Danger is a 1943 American mystery film directed by William Clemens and starring Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Amelita Ward and Elaine Shepard.

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The Falcon Out West

The Falcon Out West (aka The Falcon in Texas) is a 1944 American mystery film directed by William Clemens and starring Tom Conway, Joan Barclay and Barbara Hale.

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The Fallen Sparrow

The Fallen Sparrow is a 1943 spy film starring John Garfield, Maureen O'Hara, Patricia Morison and Walter Slezak.

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The Fighting Seabees

The Fighting Seabees is a 1944 war film starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward.

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The Girl He Left Behind

The Girl He Left Behind is a 1956 romantic comedy film starring Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood.

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The Great Man Votes

The Great Man Votes is a 1939 American drama film starring John Barrymore as a widowed professor turned drunkard who has the deciding vote in an election for mayor.

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The Leopard Man

The Leopard Man is a 1943 horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur based on the book Black Alibi by Cornell Woolrich.

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The Locket

The Locket is a 1946 film noir directed by John Brahm, starring Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, and Gene Raymond, and released by RKO Pictures.

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The Magnificent Ambersons

The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel written by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize for the novel.

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The Magnificent Ambersons (film)

The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 American period drama, the second feature film produced and directed by Orson Welles.

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The Raid (1954 film)

The Raid is a 1954 Technicolor American film set during the American Civil War.

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The River Changes

The River Changes is a 1956 American drama film, written and directed by Owen Crompton.

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The Sea Chase

The Sea Chase is a 1955 World War II drama film starring John Wayne and Lana Turner, and featuring David Farrar, Lyle Bettger, and Tab Hunter.

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The Secret Fury

The Secret Fury is a 1950 American black-and-white psychological thriller film noir directed by Mel Ferrer and starring Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan and Jane Cowl.

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The Seventh Cross

Anna Seghers' novel The Seventh Cross (Das siebte Kreuz) is one of the better-known examples of German literature circa World War II.

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The Seventh Victim

The Seventh Victim is a 1943 American horror film noir directed by Mark Robson and starring Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, Kim Hunter, and Hugh Beaumont.

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The Spiral Staircase (1946 film)

The Spiral Staircase is a 1946 American psychological horror film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, and Ethel Barrymore.

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The White Tower (film)

The White Tower is a 1950 mountain film starring Alida Valli as a woman determined to fulfil her father's dream by conquering the mountain that killed her father, and Glenn Ford as the mountaineer who loves her.

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The Window (film)

The Window is a 1949 American black-and-white suspense film noir, based on the short story "The Boy Cried Murder" (reprinted as "Fire Escape") by Cornell Woolrich about a lying boy who suspects that his neighbors are killers.

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The Woman I Love

The Woman I Love (aka Escadrille and The Woman Between) is a 1937 American film about a romantic triangle involving two World War I fighter pilots and the wife of one of them.

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They Won't Believe Me

They Won't Believe Me is a 1947 black-and-white film noir starring Robert Young, Susan Hayward and Jane Greer.

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This Is Cinerama

This is Cinerama is a 1952 full-length film designed to introduce the widescreen process Cinerama, which broadens the aspect ratio so the viewer's peripheral vision is involved.

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Track of the Cat

Track of the Cat is a 1954 Warnercolor Western film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Robert Mitchum and Teresa Wright.

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Two O'Clock Courage

Two O'Clock Courage is a 1945 American film noir directed by Anthony Mann and written by Robert E. Kent, based on novel written by Gelett Burgess.

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Val Lewton

Val Lewton (May 7, 1904 – March 14, 1951) was a Russian-American novelist, film producer and screenwriter best known for a string of low-budget horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s.

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Vendetta (1950 film)

Vendetta is a 1950 American crime film based on the 1840 novella Colomba by Prosper Mérimée, about a young Corsican girl who pushes her brother to kill to avenge their father's murder.

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Wagon Train

Wagon Train is an American Western series that aired on NBC 1957–62 and then on ABC 1962–65.

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Where Danger Lives

Where Danger Lives is a 1950 film noir thriller directed by John Farrow and starring Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue and Claude Rains.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Webb

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