John Dalmas wrote:

>>But I've always been curious why most of Walton's music (for "The Battle
>>of Britain") was scrapped.

Tim Horwood replied:

>According to The Times yesterday (13 April 2002) it was United Artists who
>rejected Walton's score for the Battle of Britain as not being a standard
>American movie score.  Apparently a DVD of the film will be issued later
>in the year that includes Walton's score.


Includes all of the Walton? Along with, or without, the Goodwin?

The film was a joint production by United Artists and Spitfire but made
in the UK. Did Spitfire have no say in the matter? And what in the
Sixties was a "standard American movie score"? The Maurice Jarre score for
"Lawrence of Arabia"? (Jarre won an academy award for that.) The John Barry
score for "The Lion in Winter"? (Barry won an AA for that.) The Tom Addison
score for "Tom Jones"? (Addison was nominated for an AA.) The Georges
Delerue score for "A Man for All Seasons"? Lionel Bart's for "Oliver"? (The
last two films, "Tom Jones"and "Lawrence of Arabia" all won Academy Awards
for Best Picture).I mean, what are we talking here? London during the Blitz
gets chopped liver??

John Dalmas
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