John Dalmas wrote:

>In the 1930s Honegger composed music for both the French and American
>film versions of "Crime and Punishment." Each film had separate casts,
>directors, writers, photographers, etc.  Does anyone know if the scores
>are virtually identical, or if there is new music in the American version,
>which I believe was filmed a year after the first?

*Crime et Chatiment*, the French film starring Harry Baur (who was
murdered by the Gestapo in 1943) as Inspector Porphyr, appeared in 1935
w/ Honegger's music.

The American *Crime and Punishment*, w/ Edward Arnold as the inspector,
also appeared in 1935 but, according to www.imdb.com, with music by R.H.
Bassett and Louis Silvers.

Walter Meyer