Goodwin’s gripping score remained, but Walton’s cue for the battle sequence itself was re-instated. Apparently lead actor Laurence Olivier stepped in and demanded his name be removed from the credits if Walton’s music was removed. whether it is 'good' or 'bad', whether it. How in the name of the good Lord does one even go about starting to discuss Apocalypse NowIts among the small population of films about which I think its more or less impossible to speak about it qualitatively, i.e.
William Walton was originally commissioned to write the music, before producers decided to drop Walton’s score in favour of Ron Goodwin’s. A second review requested by Patton with thanks for contributing twice to the Second Quinquennial Antagony & Ecstasy ACS Fundraiser. 33 in The Classic FM Movie Music Hall of Fame in partnership with Radio Times this year). Three decades later Guy Hamilton’s dramatic film version of events further cemented the RAF’s airborne efforts in memory, and Ron Goodwin’s score for the film remains some of the best loved film music ever written (voted No. mp3 Kenji Kawai - Thme de fin (soundtrack Apocalypse: The Second World War) 13003433. The heroic sacrifices of those made in the Battle of Britain were immortalised in the great and sobering words of Sir Winston Churchill when he said “never was so much owed by so many to so few.” 2020 marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain – we commemorate the occasion with a selection of the greatest music accompanying depictions of the Second World War on film ever written.
