David Raksin, the noted film composer for “Forever Amber” and “The Bad and the Beautiful” whose hauntingly memorable theme song for the 1944 film noir classic “Laura” became one of the most recorded ...

When most of us think of film noir, the soundtrack we hear in our heads is sultry torch singers and forlorn saxophones. Yet noir rarely sounded like that. Most of these classic crime stories of the ...

James Ellroy, the two-fisted author behind such crime novels as L.A. Confidential and Black Dahlia, is making a rare foray into film. Fox 2000 has signed the author to write a remake of Laura, the ...

It is amazing the effect that director Otto Preminger had on the composers who worked under Darryl Zanuck's rule at 20th Century Fox in the 1940s. Despite the Austrian-born filmmaker's storming out of ...