Tony Duggan wrote:

>When Walton wrote a soundtrack score for the movie "The Battle of Britain"
>he asked for Malcolm Arnold to conduct it for the recording sessions as he
>felt he could trust him.  As it turned out, of course, the film company
>didn't like the music and commissioned another from Ron Goodwin.

Maybe that's why the film was a box office disaster and lost ten million
dollars, a hefty sum in the 60s.  But I've always been curious why most of
Walton's music was scrapped.  Is it documented that Harry Saltzman actually
disliked it? I've always been told it was not quite clear what happened.

John Dalmas
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