Elia Kazan, who directed the Broadway play on which the black and white film is based, invited Marlon Brando, the male lead, and Kim Hunter and Karl Malden, his supporting cast, to repeat their Broadway triumphs in the film remake.
Brando plays Stanley, a poor boy who grew up tainted by ethnic slurs, made financially stable by the fortunes of the second world war. He does well as a blue collar travelling salesman, moves to New Orleans and marries Stella (Hunter), daughter of an Aristocratic MIssissippi family anxious to escape the war;s invitable destruction of her family's land, wealth, property and social status.
Stanley has never met his sister-in-law Blanche, the female lead of the play, Vivien Leigh in the movie remake. Blanche arranges a visit to see her sister in New Orleans and shows up on Stanley's doorstop obviously annoyed that there is neither a guest bedroom for herself nor a master bedroom for her sister and brother-in-law, in their cramped, dingy apartment in a bustling quarter of the city.
The tensions of wartime emergency cohabitation of family members somehow forced to move in with each other in tight, cramped quarters because of the fortunes of war are noted when it is obvious that Blanche and Stanley immediately get on each others' nerves, especially when Blanche, who passes herself off as the only Aristocrat in her new neighborhood, is the only one in her new neighborhood who actually resorts to tough bar language and ethnic slurs in passing conversation.
This becomes no ordinary domestic quarrel when their tensions escalate beyond a war of words to hurtful, spiteful deeds and then to climatic physical violence. Hollywood icons Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh are given close, tight photography in their lengthy scenes of escalating conflict, played with such deep insight and such technical brilliance that the audience is given pause, from moment to moment, to decide whether one really has a point and the other should really be apprehended by the authorities.
Stanley first wants to know why Blanche seems to be planning to stay for life and what happened to his wife's claim on the family fortune, land, property and social status. Blanche wants Stanley to give up his weekly card game and his weekly bowling tournament with his friends including Mitch (Malden), to stay at home always sweating in his dirtied work clothes because he will have no place to wash and change with a lady in his house, sitting silent like a statue, until he decides it is time to just turn his paycheck over to Stella and move out so Blanche can rule the roost.
When Blanche attracts the attention of lonely Mitch who sees the remnants of her Aristocratic upbringing, Stanley investigates, through a friend travelling in Mississippi, why his emotionally disturbed, alcoholic, child molesting sister-in-law was fired from her job and kicked out of her boarding house.
A telling interlude has Stanley striking Stella for interfering with his treatment of Blanche. She escapes to the upstairs apartment of her landlady (Peg Hillias), but is so dependent upon Stanley that she returns to him when he goes into the yard and calls for her to come back.
Things do not go well for Blanche when Stella goes to the hospital to give birth to her child just after a teenage boy accuses her of making improper advances when he came to her door to collect money for Stanley's periodical subscription and Mitch dumps her.
There is surrealistic moment, to be individually sorted out by each viewer, when Blanche insists she is going to cut up Stanley's face with the jagged edges of a broken liquor bottle and then insists he is going to rape her.
The play and the movie cuts from the blackout to a scene some time later when Stella is putting her baby to sleep in the front yard, Stanley is having his card game over, and authorities arrive from the local mental institution to put Blanche away for life.
The landlady calls Stella to the bathroom, where Blanche is soaking up her cares in another hot water tub and wants the ladies to dress her in her faded, fake finery so a nonexistent gentleman friend can escort her on a nonexistent world cruise. Stella, Mitch and the landlady seem in agreement that Blanche is an innocent flower ravaged by wartime whom Stanley destroyed with his crude bullying.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Main Title (from "The Bad Seed")
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Alex North:
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Our Baby
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Alex North:
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Confession / Details
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Alex North:
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At It Again
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Alex North:
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Gay And Roselyn
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Alex North:
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Gathering Of Forces
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Alex North:
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Main Title (from "A Streetcar Named Desire") / New Orleans Street
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Alex North:
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Blanche
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Alex North:
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Four Deuces
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Alex North:
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Mania
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Alex North:
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Belle Reve
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Alex North:
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Main Title (from "Spartacus")
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Alex North:
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Forest Meeting
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Vesuvius Camp
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Alex North:
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Camp At Night
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Draba Fight
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Alex North:
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Final Farewell
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Alex North:
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Main Title
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Alex North:
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New Orleans Street
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Alex North:
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Belle Reve Reflections
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Alex North:
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Stan Meets Blanche
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Alex North:
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Blanche and Mitch
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Alex North:
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Stan and Stella
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Alex North:
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Birthday Party
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Alex North:
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Revelation
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Alex North:
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Soliloquy
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Alex North:
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Seduction
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Della Robia Blue
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Alex North:
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The Doctor / Affirmation
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Alex North:
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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Alex North, Ray Heindorf): Streetcar
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Belle Reeve
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Flores Para Los Muertos (Flowers For The Dead)
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Lust
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Redemption
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Elmer Bernstein:
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PRIVATE HELL 36 (Leith Stevens, Shorty Rogers): Private Hell
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Havana Interlude
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Easy Mood
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Daddy Long Legs
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Joshua
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Lilli
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Dance Of The Liliputian
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Private Blues
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Disc Time:
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Elmer Bernstein:
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THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM (Elmer Bernstein, Fred Steiner, Shorty Rogers): Clark Street
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Zosh
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Frankie Machine
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Elmer Bernstein:
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The Fix
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Molly
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Breakup
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Sunday Morning
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Desperation
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Audition
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Elmer Bernstein:
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The Cure
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Finale
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Elmer Bernstein): The Street (Main Title)
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Hot Dogs And Juice (Goodbye Baby) (Chico Hamilton, Fred Katz)
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Sidney And Susie
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Hunseker's Price
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Tropical Island Mood
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Elmer Bernstein:
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The Smear
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Toots Shor's Blues
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Nite Spot Rock
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Susie's Problem
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Hunsecker Operates (Goodbye Baby) (Chico Hamilton, Fred Katz)
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Goodbye Baby Blues (Chico Hamilton, Fred Katz)
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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The Trap Is Sprung
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Love Scene (Susan - The Sage) (Chico Hamilton, Fred Katz)
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Out Of Darkness (Chico Hamilton, Fred Katz)
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Goodbye Baby (Chico Hamilton, Fred Katz, Chico Hamilton Quintet)
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Cheek To Chico (Chico Hamilton, Fred Katz, Jazz on Film, Chico Hamilton Quintet)
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Susan The Sage (Chico Hamilton, Fred Katz, Chico Hamilton Quintet)
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Sidney's Theme (Chico Hamilton, Fred Katz, Chico Hamilton Quintet)
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Jonalah (Chico Hamilton, Fred Katz, Chico Hamilton Quintet)
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Jam (Chico Hamilton, Fred Katz, Chico Hamilton Quintet)
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Night Beat (Chico Hamilton, Fred Katz, Chico Hamilton Quintet)
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Concerto Of Themes From Soundtrack Of Sweet Smell Of Success (Chico Hamilton, Fred Katz, Chico Hamilton Quintet)
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Elmer Bernstein:
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TOUCH OF EVIL (Fred Steiner, Henry Mancini, Joseph Gershenson, Russ Garcia): Touch Of Evil
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Borderline Montuna
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Strollin' Blues
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Orson Around
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Reflection
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Tana's Theme
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Flashing Nuisance
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Something For Susan
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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The Boss
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Rock Me To Sleep
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Elmer Bernstein:
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The Big Drag
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Ku Ku
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Elmer Bernstein:
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Son Of Raunchy
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Lease Breaker
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Background For Murder
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Barroom Rock
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Pigeon Caged
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Blue Pianola
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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The Chase
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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ANATOMY OF A MURDER (Duke Ellington, Gerald Wilson): Main Title And Anatomy Of A Murder
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Flirtibird
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Way Early Subtone
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Hero To Zero
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Low Key Lightly
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Happy Anatomy (Band Movie)
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Midnight Indigo
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Almost Cried (Studio)
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Sunswept Sunday
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Grace Valse
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Happy Anatomy (P.I Five)
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Haupe
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Upper And Outest
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (John Lewis): Prelude To Odds Against Tomorrow
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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A Cold Wind Is Blowing
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Five Figure People Crossing Paths
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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How To Frame Pigeons
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Morning Trip To Melton (with Gerald Wilson)
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Looking At The Caper
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Johnny Ingram's Possessions
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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The Carousel Incident (with Gerald Wilson)
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Skating In Central Park
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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No Happiness For Slater (with Gerald Wilson)
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Main Theme: Odds Against Tomorrow
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Games
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Social Call (with Gerald Wilson)
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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The Impractical Man (with Gerald Wilson)
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Advance On Melton (with Gerald Wilson)
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Waiting Around The River
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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The Caper Failure
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Postlude
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Elmer Bernstein:
Icracı
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Stud Poker - A Streetcar Named Desire
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Four Deuces - A Streetcar Named Desire
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Trick Or Treat - Wall Street Ballet
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Alex North:
Icracı
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French Quarter - A Streetcar Named Desire
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Hot Spell
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Ode To A Western - American Road
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Unchained Jazz - Unchained
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Monte Carlo - The Racers
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Floozie - The Rose Tattoo
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Mardi Gras Bump -The Rose Tattoo
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Magnolia - Member of the Wedding
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Ticker Tape - Wall Street Ballet
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Jody's Lament - Member of the Wedding
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Blackjack - The Racers
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Streetcar
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Alex North:
Icracı
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The Four Deuces
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Flores Para Los Muertos
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Soliloquy And Redemption
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Since You Went Away
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Alex North:
Icracı
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Now Voyager
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Alex North:
Icracı
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The Informer
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Alex North:
Icracı
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