Intrada Soundtrack Forum

"The Bravados" was a score by Hugo Friedhofer, with an assist from Alfred Newman (including, IIRC, the main title). I have no idea what, if anything, Lionel Newman would have had to do with this score. There is a wonderful stereo (albeit archival) recording of this score issued by BYU/SAE. Intrada has this title in stock and this is what Doug has to say about it: Original soundtrack from brooding Gregory Peck revenge western. Alfred Newman provides driving main theme ("The Hunter"), Hugo Friedhofer provides bulk of edgy incidental material. Album features score in stereo (34:45), guitar source music, church source music, mono suite from score (19:48). Produced by Lukas Kendall using original elements from 20th Century Fox vaults. Bernhard Kaun conducts.

Lionel succeeded Alfred as music director at Fox after the Fox Music Department was, for the most part, stripped down to an administrative office.

Lionel scored many of Fox's early 1960s TV shows, including "Hong Kong" and "Adventures in Paradise", both of which were rather well-scored, IMO. The latter has one of my favorite themes (and it was used during a sequence in "Move Over, Darling").

Even under brother Alfred, Lionel had been composing and conducting. As a conductor at the studio, he was probably only a step or so behind brother Alfred who, to this day, is considered the finest conductor to work in Hollywood.

Lionel was extremely expressive in his conducting and brought out the subtlest of nuances in the scores. He conducted most, if not all, of Friedhofer's scores at Fox, including "The Rains of Ranchipur," "Soldier of Fortune," and "Boy on a Dolphin". I believe the war trilogy was among them, as well, which included "Between Heaven and Hell," "In Love and War" and "The Young Lions."

Lionel conducted scores for many other composers, as well. In the 1960s and 1970s, he conducted many of Jerry Goldsmith's scores for Fox.

Lionel's proudest public moment was being co-recipient of the Oscar for scoring of a musical with Lennie Hayton for "Hello, Dolly!"