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Status
Released
Release
2019
Runtime
2h
Available options inUS
A look at the life and work of the Austrian composer who pioneered the musical scoring of films - hundreds of them - from King Kong, to Gone with the Wind, to Casablanca and beyond.
19 Cast Members
Max Steiner
Self (archive footage)
Lionel Friedberg
Narrator
Leonard Maltin
Self
Ray Faiola
Max Steiner (voice)
Jon Burlingame
Self
Robert Townson
Self
Joe Rinaudo
Self
Scott Lasky
Self
Stan Taffel
Self
Ken Rosen
Self
Steven C. Smith
Self
James D'Arc
Self
Peter Wegele
Self
John W. Morgan
Self
William T. Stromberg
Self
Daniel Selznick
Self
Eleanor Slatkin
Self (archive footage)
Hugo Friedhofer
Self (archive footage)
Michael Feinstein
Self