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Star Wars tops movie music poll
No honour for Showgirls, sadly
It's all go in the wonderful world of movie polls, and hot on the butt-naked heels of last week's revelation that the pool romp scene between Elizabeth Berkley and Kyle MacLachlan was the worst screen rumpy-pumpy ever, we have the news that Star Wars has claimed the best film music crown.
That's according to the American Film Institute, which gives John Williams no less than three spots in the top twenty, with Jaws and E.T. also getting a round of applause.
The 500 film artists, composers, musicians, critics, pundits and historians polled placed Gone With The Wind in second, closely followed by the rather marvellous Lawrence Of Arabia. The full listing is:
- Star Wars - John Williams
- Gone With The Wind - Max Steiner
- Lawrence Of Arabia - Maurice Jarre
- Psycho - Bernard Herrmann
- The Godfather - Nino Rota
- Jaws - John Williams
- Laura - David Raksin
- The Magnificent Seven - Elmer Bernstein
- Chinatown - Jerry Goldsmith
- High Noon - Dimitri Tiomkin
- The Adventures Of Robin Hood - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- Vertigo - Bernard Herrmann
- King Kong - Max Steiner
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - John Williams
- Out Of Africa - John Barry
- Sunset Blvd. - Franz Waxman
- To Kill A Mockingbird - Elmer Bernstein
- Planet Of The Apes - Jerry Goldsmith
- A Streetcar Named Desire - Alex North
- The Pink Panther - Henry Mancini.
Sadly, no gong for Showgirls on this occasion, despite its heady mix of full-frontal nudity and cracking dialogue set to a throbbing backbeat of Las Vegas production numbers. For shame. ®