Bernard Herrmann won his only Oscar for the score of this film

Considering the popularity of his music, it's surprising no mention is made on these pages of Bernard Herrmann's Oscar-winning score for this film. Most curious is that he received the award in the same year as his much more memorable score for Citizen Kane, which was essentially blackballed by much of the media to deflate wunderkind Orson Welles, and may be the reason Herrmann won it for this film, rather than being tarred altogether along with Welles.

His instrumentation in "All That Money Can Buy" is noted, when it's mentioned at all, for its musical use of the sounds telegraph wires make, as if that alone accounts for it being singled out.

Herrmann's genius in scoring Vertigo and Psycho, among several of his great scores, never even received nominations. Was the Academy braindead, tonedeaf, or motivated for personal reasons, such as office politics?? Not even The Shadow knows.

~ Native Angeleno