Fine Movie Classics - 21 Mar 25

There are TV themes from “Only Murders In The Building” and “Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey”, along with music from “A Minecraft Movie”, a medley of hit tunes from “Mary Poppins”, and there’s music from “The Big Blue”, “The Danish Girl”, “Paddington” and “The Producers”.

This week gold glistens in a Spaghetti Western, and in the form of a medal in the London Marathon, for which TV coverage is introduced by the theme from an unlikely film. There are also songs from two stage musicals which successfully transitioned to the Big Screen. Plus, there’s music…

There’s the theme from a stage thriller which became a successful movie thanks to the pairing of Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier. Thomas Newman offers music from “1917”, and there’s music from a 1953 film starring Jean Simmonds as “Young Bess” about Elizabeth the First. And our video game theme…

Robin Williams sings for us, Patrick Doyle offers Sweets To The Sweet in “Much Ado About Nothing”, there’s a great medley from “Lord Of The Rings” from the recently-released album “Hoard Shore – Anthology: The Paris Concerts” and Thomas Newman has a delightful tune from “Wall-E”.

There are end credits to 2 very different films by 2 fine Italian film composers, We have music to the video game “Elden Ring” and the story of how a song by Dmitri Tiomkin hit the charts before the film was released and led to it finally being released by…