Soundtrack: Walter Scharf

The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Walter Scharf. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.


Pocketful of Miracles

1961 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Glenn Ford · Bette Davis · Peter Falk · Hope Lange

Synopsis Apple Annie is a beggar and an apple seller who is part of downtown New York life. Her daughter, Louise, is to marry a Count who thinks that Annie is a part of New York society...

7.6

5K votes

7.6

5K votes

Direction Jacques-Yves Cousteau · Philippe Cousteau · Patrick Watson · Joe Thompson

Cast Jacques-Yves Cousteau · Rod Serling

Synopsis TV Series (1966–1976). 37 Episodes. In the series, we see the scientific expeditions of the renowned sea explorer, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the crew of his ship, the Calypso. They go around the globe exploring various regions of the underwater world...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

I've Always Loved You

1946 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Philip Dorn · Catherine McLeod · Bill Carter · Maria Ouspenskaya

Synopsis A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.

7.4

142 votes

7.4

142 votes

7.3

76 votes

World of Comedy

1962 · Documentary · 94 min. · United States

7.0

26 votes

7.0

26 votes

Time Table

1956 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Mark Stevens

Cast Mark Stevens · King Calder · Felicia Farr · Marianne Stewart

Synopsis As a train speeds through the Arizona night, a man posing as a physician holds up the baggage-car crew and escapes with a $500,000 payroll. The fake doctor, Paul Bruckner, leaves the train with his "patient" and the "patient's wife",...

6.6

24 votes

6.6

24 votes

The Cheyenne Social Club

1970 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast James Stewart · Henry Fonda · Shirley Jones · Sue Ane Langdon

Synopsis John is working as a cow poke for very little money with his friend Harley when he gets word his brother, DJ, has left him The Cheyenne Social Club. He and Harley ride for nearly a thousand miles to his...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

The Geisha Boy

1958 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Jerry Lewis · Marie McDonald · Sessue Hayakawa · Barton MacLane

Synopsis Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.

6.5

158 votes

6.5

158 votes

Direction Robert Parrish

Cast Ed Wynn · Murray Hamilton · Dana Dillaway · Jay Overholts

Synopsis Lou Bookman is a street vendor; a pitchman, making a living selling what he can from his valise - radios, toys, ties and the like. After a long day, he returns to his shabby apartment to find someone waiting for...

6.4

274 votes

6.4

274 votes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

1939 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Ida Lupino · George Zucco

Synopsis Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) goes head to head against his archenemy, Professor Moriarty (George Zucco), who's planning to steal the Star of Delhi gem from the Crown Jewels. To keep the intrepid detective from figuring out his main caper, Moriarty...

6.3

621 votes

6.3

621 votes

The Nutty Professor

1963 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Stella Stevens · Del Moore · Kathleen Freeman

Synopsis Professor Julius Kelp is a nerdy, scruffy, buck-toothed, accident-prone, socially awkward university professor whose experiments in the classroom laboratory are unsuccessful and highly destructive. When a football-playing bully embarrasses and attacks him, Kelp decides to "beef up" by joining a...

6.3

6K votes

6.3

6K votes

The Ladies Man (The Ladies' Man)

1961 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Helen Traubel · Kathleen Freeman · Hope Holiday

Synopsis The rubber-legged, rubber-faced Lewis plays Herbert H. Herbert, a man who is despondent over the break-up of his romance. While looking for a job, he comes across an impressive mansion (built as a set at the cost of 350,000 US...

6.2

987 votes

6.2

987 votes

Direction Buzz Kulik

Cast Natalie Wood · William Devane · Steve Railsback · Roy Thinnes

Synopsis TV Miniseries. 3 Episodes. Story takes place at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii just before the attack by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. The main plot deals with the adulterous love affair between Sgt. Warden and Karen Holmes, who's married to...

6.2

44 votes

6.2

44 votes

Hollywood or Bust

1956 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Dean Martin · Jerry Lewis · Pat Crowley · Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom

Synopsis A singer who can't pay his bookie joins a nerdy, star-struck movie fan and his Great Dane in a cross-country convertible ride to Hollywood.

6.2

176 votes

6.2

176 votes

The Errand Boy

1961 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Brian Donlevy · Sig Ruman · Dick Wesson

Synopsis When Mr. T.P., president of Paramutual Studios, hires clumsy Morty Tashman (Jerry Lewis) to be "The Errand Boy" and to spy on his fellow employees in an efficiency "sting" operation, he never realized that he was developing the recipe for...

6.2

341 votes

6.2

341 votes

Three Violent People

1956 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Charlton Heston · Anne Baxter · Gilbert Roland · Tom Tryon

Synopsis Former dance hall girl Lorna, masquerading as a lady, meets and marries Confederate ex-officer Colt Saunders, returning to his rich Texas ranch. Everyone there is enchanted with Lorna. But the carpetbag government is set to grab all the big ranches,...

6.2

658 votes

6.2

658 votes

Rock-a-bye Baby

1958 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Jerry Lewis · Marilyn Maxwell · Salvatore Baccaloni · Connie Stevens

Synopsis Clayton Poole (Jerry Lewis) is a big fan of glamorous movie star Carla Naples (Marilyn Maxwell), a recent widow who gives birth to triplets--a fact she wants kept hush-hush since she's starring as a virgin in a religious epic. So...

6.1

189 votes

6.1

189 votes

Red Canyon

1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction George Sherman

Cast Ann Blyth · Howard Duff · George Brent · Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis Red Canyon was one of several medium-budget, Technicolor westerns turned out by Universal-International between 1949 and 1959. Howard Duff plays wandering cowpoke Lin Sloane, who spends most of the film trying to capture a fabled wild stallion. While thus occupied,...

6.0

106 votes

6.0

106 votes

Hans Christian Andersen

1952 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Danny Kaye · Farley Granger · Zizi Jeanmaire · Joseph Walsh

Synopsis A completely fabricated biography of the famous Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen featuring several of his stories and a ballet performance of "The Little Mermaid".

6.0

397 votes

6.0

397 votes

Journey Back to Oz

1974 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Hal Sutherland

Synopsis During a twister, Dorothy is hit on the head by a fence and she is once again whisked to the land of Oz. But this time, on her way to the Emerald City she discovers a terrible plot by the...

6.0

53 votes

6.0

53 votes