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Roy Webb (né Royden Denslow Webb; October 3, 1888 – December 10, 1982) was an American film music composer. Webb has hundreds of film music credits to his name, mainly with RKO Pictures. He is best known for film noir and horror film scores, in particular for the films of Val Lewton. Born in Manhattan, New York, Webb orchestrated and conducted for the Broadway stage, before moving to Hollywood in the late 1920s to work as music director for Radio Pictures, later RKO Pictures. He remained at RKO until 1955, then worked freelance for several years, including scoring several episodes of Wagon Train. Webb is credited as composer or arranger on more than 200 films, and received Academy Award nominations for Quality Street (1937), My Favorite Wife (1940), I Married a Witch (1942), Joan of Paris (1942), The Fallen Sparrow (1943), The Fighting Seabees (1944), and The Enchanted Cottage (1945). His piano concerto from The Enchanted Cottage was performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Constantin Bakaleinikoff, in concert at the Hollywood Bowl in 1945. In 1961, a house fire destroyed Webb's manuscripts including film scores and unpublished concert music, after which Webb ceased composing. Webb died in 1982 from a heart attack at the age of 94. An alumnus of Columbia University, Webb wrote the fight song “Roar, Lion, Roar” for his alma mater in 1925. Several cues composed by Webb were used in the newsreel montage of Kane's life in Citizen Kane. Several cues composed by Webb replaced those by Bernard Herrmann in The Magnificent Ambersons after the film was re-edited. Webb also composed several cues (uncredited) for This is Cinerama, the first Cinerama production in 1952. The Christopher Palmer Collection of Roy Webb Scores is held at Syracuse University, New York.
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26 July 1940
To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.
21 August 1946
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy.
20 July 1930
A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
11 November 1948
Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute.
07 March 1947
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
12 April 1940
Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has warned Holden of the rustlers' approach.
24 June 1933
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
30 May 1952
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
27 October 1939
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
26 July 1944
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men.
12 July 1940
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
15 September 1929
Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita, though he suspects that her brother is the bandit.
09 October 1942
It's Fibber and Molly's 20th anniversary and they want to throw a big party. But when everyone declines their invitation, they decide to go on a second honeymoon instead.
18 February 1938
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
12 December 1949
Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store.
26 June 1936
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
31 August 1934
Señor Martinez, a famous theater owner, visits a local café in Mexico because of its reputation for good food and to audition the famous dancer who performs there.
25 December 1935
When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with the questionable help of plenty others.
12 June 1942
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
05 December 1942
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
19 August 1943
Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings.
22 July 1955
A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.
28 August 1939
A sheriff and his posse set out to catch a murderer, but their mission proves more dangerous than anyone suspected after they become stranded in the desert and attacked by Apaches.
25 November 1947
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
18 April 1940
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.
29 June 1934
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
18 August 1933
Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe.
17 July 1943
Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,000.
23 February 1939
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
30 October 1942
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when she discovers that her mischief might have found her true love.
13 April 1934
The seemingly happy relationship between Tony and Jim is threatened when his manipulative, seductive former fiancee visits.
01 April 1943
The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic lodge.
01 April 1942
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
14 October 1938
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
12 May 1939
A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed.
27 June 1935
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens.
01 October 1956
After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early life, that of Bridey Murphy.
28 September 1942
Rancher Clay Travers finds and brings in the body of ranger Frank Mattison, murdered on the road to Trail City, where he had been sent to deal with an outbreak of cattle rustling.
29 June 1939
Cattlemen fight corrupt railroad men out to destroy the forest.
18 November 1938
A blustering gunfighter talks himself into the position of mayor in a small western town.
11 April 1955
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother, is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward, he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood.
01 July 1943
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
18 November 1942
After Pearl Harbor, convicts at Alcatraz prison live in fear of bomb attacks, driving Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo to a desperate escape attempt which lands them on a tiny lighthouse island, where they take over.
01 October 1955
An American Merchant Marine captain, rescued from a Chinese Communist jail by local villagers, is "shanghaied" into transporting the entire village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.
11 May 1934
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
30 October 1942
A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.
14 December 1944
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
22 July 1959
Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own.
26 September 1933
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
21 April 1943
A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.
01 April 1958
The rugged editor of a city newspaper poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.
13 May 1938
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
24 July 1944
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross.
09 November 1934
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
27 December 1940
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
02 May 1953
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.
29 September 1944
When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been murdered.
28 April 1939
A rookie cop tries to prove his friend is innocent of a robbery, despite the police commissioner's objection to his use of a trained German Shepherd dog named Ace.
17 May 1940
Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.
24 October 1952
Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport.
