Leith Stevens's music

Just a post saluting the great Leith Stevens for his effective score for World Without End. Next time you watch, give it a serious listen. Appropriately eerie, exciting, or dramatic, as each scene requires. A surprisingly effective and varied score for a medium budget sci-fi picture out of Allied Artists.

Stevens also did the music for George Pal's science fiction classics Destination Moon, When Worlds Collide, and The War of the Worlds, each very different and each equally effective. (In fact, as all composers have signature themes and instrumentals, there are a few similarities between parts of Steven's scores for Moon and WWE.)

Leith Stevens did a lot of scores for a great many films of many genres, a tribute to his abilities, and received several Oscar nominations. Born in 1909, he died tragically in 1970 of a heart attack only minutes after having learned that his wife of many years had been killed in a car accident. But while less well-known than some of Hollywood's great composers, Stevens was a versatile and talented composer, and his music for World Without End is a perhaps unexpected tribute to the breadth of his talent and understanding of film music.