This was composer Elmer Bernstein's first major project. Bernstein had just had some success with his Oscar-nominated jazz score for L'uomo dal braccio d'oro (1955). However, he was not Cecil B. DeMille's first choice to score this movie. DeMille had a long professional association with Paramount Pictures contract composer Victor Young, who had been working with DeMille since Giubbe rosse (1940). Young had become very ill and could not accept the assignment.

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