Composer and conductor Dimitri Tiomkin, born in Russia in 1894, but who emigrated to the USA after the First World War, is one of the most successful and celebrated composers of film music in the history of cinema. Nominated for 22 Academy Awards, he won four of them, for Best Original Score for "High Noon", "The High And The Mighty" and "The Old Man And The Sea" and for Best Original Song for "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me." In the process of writing songs and themes for dozens of movies, he had more than 25 chart entries with his compositions when recorded as singles by other artists.

This great value 55-track 2-CD set comprises themes and music from original soundtrack compositions, along with recordings of his movie songs and music by other artists from the first and highly significant first quarter-century of his career. It includes music from all the films for which he won Academy Awards, and a significant proportion of those for which he was nominated. It also features 27 records which made either US or UK charts, including Top 5 hits with Frankie Laine's "High Noon" and "Blowing Wild", Les Baxter's "The High And The Mighty", and Pat Boone's "Friendly Persuasion", as well recordings by many major artists like Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Dean Martin and Gene Pitney. It offers a substantial and varied insight into the work of one of the legendary, but sometime unheralded, figures in the world of movie music via some compositions which are veritable masterpieces of their kind.

Disc 1:

Lost Horizon Theme (Conway And Sondra)
Shadow Of A Doubt (Main Title Theme)
Strangers On A Train (Main Title Theme)
Duel In The Sun (Ecstasy Theme)
Main Title Theme from "Red River"
The March Of The Champions
Love On The Sly
Cyrano De Bergerac
Thing From Another World (Main Title Theme)
The Big Sky (Main Title Theme )
High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)
High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)
I Confess
Return To Paradise
Return To Paradise
Julie
Blowing Wild (The Ballad Of Black Gold)
Hajji Baba (Persian Lament)
Hajji Baba
Dial M For Murder Main Theme
A Bullet Is Waiting (Jamie)
The High And The Mighty
The High And The Mighty
The High And The Mighty
The High And The Mighty
The High And The Mighty
Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (Main Title Theme)

Disc 2:

Land Of The Pharaohs
Land Of The Pharaohs
This Too Shall Pass
Strange Lady In Town
Friendly Persuasion Thee I Love)
Friendly Persuasion Thee I Love)
Giant
Giant
Giant, There's Never Been Anyone Else but You
Gunfight At The OK Corral
Strange Are The Ways Of Love
Wild Is The Wind
The Old Man And The Sea
Last Train From Gun Hill
Rio Bravo
My Rifle, My Pony, And Me
Rawhide
Theme from 'The Sundowners'
Theme from 'The Sundowners'
Theme from 'The Unforgiven' (The Need For Love)
Pretty Little Girl In The Yellow Dress
Ballad Of The Alamo
Ballad Of The Alamo
The Green Leaves Of Summer,BR> Tennessee Babe
Town Without Pity
The Guns Of Navarone