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ALL THE BROTHERS WERE VALIANT – Miklós Rózsa
GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Original Review by Craig Lysy
In response to the commercial success of Captains Courageous in 1936, MGM purchased the film rights to the 1919 seafaring adventure novel All the Brothers Were Valiant by Ben Ames Williams. Remarkably it would take the studio fifteen years to finally get the project off the ground. In November 1951 Pandro S. Berman was assigned production and provided a $1.816 million budget, Harry Brown was hired to write the screenplay, and Richard Thorpe was tasked with directing. A stellar cast was assembled including; Robert Taylor as Joel Shore, Stewart Granger as Mark Shore, Ann Blyth as Priscilla Holt (a replacement for the Elizabeth Taylor who was recovering from childbirth), Betta St. John as Native girl, Keenan Wynn as Silva and James Whitmore as Fetcher. Read more…
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