Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music

7.6 2019 120 min

Documentary

A look at the life and work of the Austrian composer who pioneered the musical scoring of films - hundreds of them - from King Kong, to Gone with the Wind, to Casablanca and beyond.

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Director: Diana Friedberg
Writers: Lionel Friedberg, Diana Friedberg

Cast

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Max Steiner Self (archive footage)

Lionel Friedberg Narrator

Leonard Maltin Self

Ray Faiola Max Steiner (voice)

Jon Burlingame Self

Robert Townson Self

Joe Rinaudo Self

Scott Lasky Self

Stan Taffel Self

Ken Rosen Self

Steven C. Smith Self

James D'Arc Self

Peter Wegele Self

John W. Morgan Self

William T. Stromberg Self

Daniel Selznick Self

Eleanor Slatkin Self (archive footage)

Hugo Friedhofer Self (archive footage)

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