He reached back to a march he'd written for a 1944 Oscar-winning documentary, The Fighting Lady, and made it the centerpiece of the new score, along with some very Eastern-flavored musical accompaniment that clearly telegraphed part of the action as involving Chinese characters.
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Newman could have fobbed the scoring off on another staff member, but because it was showcasing the still-new widescreen CinemaScope process, the credibility of which involved not only the studio and its production chief, but also chairman Spiros Skouras, Newman ended up scoring the movie himself. Movies like this would develop reputations as "trouble" productions on most studio lots, which would, in turn, affect the way that most of the creative work was handled, especially in post-production, and that includes music.
Its director, Sam Fuller, hated the script and the resulting film but did it as a favor to production chief Darryl F. Hell and High Water was a thriller, shot in CinemaScope, and dealing with espionage, an American submarine on a secret mission, and a Chinese plot to use a nuclear bomb in Korea. This limited-edition CD (1,200 copies pressed), part of Intrada Records' Special Collection series, captures one of Alfred Newman's stranger scores, for a very odd movie.
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