Soundtrack: Lionel Newman

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


The Boston Strangler

1968 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Tony Curtis · Henry Fonda · George Kennedy · Mike Kellin

Synopsis Boston, 1962. Several elderly women are strangled, apparently by the same unknown assailant. An investigation ensues, but clues lead nowhere. Then the strangler starts to attack younger women. John Bottomly (Henry Fonda) is assigned to direct a more intense investigation,...

7.2

5K votes

7.2

5K votes

Compulsion

1959 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Orson Welles · Diane Varsi · Dean Stockwell · Bradford Dillman

Synopsis It's Chicago and the year is 1924. Two young men are driving recklessly at night, and almost hit a drunken pedestrian. They are wealthy law students, the flamboyant Artie Straus (Bradford Dillman) constantly goading the intensely introverted Judd Steiner (Dean...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

The Last Wagon

1956 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast Richard Widmark · Felicia Farr · Susan Kohner · Tommy Rettig

Synopsis When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Tod, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

7.0

21 votes

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1953 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Jane Russell · Charles Coburn · Tommy Noonan

Synopsis Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) follows the glamorous adventures of Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw, two best friends and showgirls traveling to Paris. Lorelei, a charming blonde with a penchant for diamonds, is engaged to a wealthy man, while Dorothy prefers...

6.8

7K votes

6.8

7K votes

6.7

524 votes

North to Alaska

1960 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast John Wayne · Stewart Granger · Capucine · Ernie Kovacs

Synopsis Year 1900. After partners George Pratt and Sam McCord strike it rich with their Nome, Alaska gold mine, George's only wish is to marry his French fiancée Jenny, who has been patiently waiting for him for three years in Seattle....

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Let's Make Love

1960 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Yves Montand · Tony Randall · Frankie Vaughan

Synopsis A millionaire is out to destroy a show that makes fun of him, until he meets cast member Monroe. To get closer to her he joins the cast and hires Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly and Milton Berle (as themselves) to...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

6.5

945 votes

The Proud Ones

1956 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Robert D. Webb

Cast Robert Ryan · Virginia Mayo · Jeffrey Hunter · Robert Middleton

Synopsis Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An...

6.4

298 votes

6.4

298 votes

A Kiss Before Dying

1956 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Gerd Oswald

Cast Robert Wagner · Jeffrey Hunter · Virginia Leith · Joanne Woodward

Synopsis Bud Corliss is an ambitious college student with big plans for himself and an heiress, Dorothy Kingship. But then Dorothy goes and gets herself pregnant. It's his child, too, of course; but this ruins everything. Her moralistic father will disown...

6.2

459 votes

6.2

459 votes

The Cowboy and the Lady

1938 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Gary Cooper · Merle Oberon · Patsy Kelly · Walter Brennan

Synopsis Poor Mary Smith can't go night-clubbing or have any other fun because any hint of scandal could damage her father's political career. She decides to rebel and convinces her two maids to let her go along with them on a...

6.2

232 votes

6.2

232 votes

The Great White Hope

1970 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast James Earl Jones · Jane Alexander · Lou Gilbert · Joel Fluellen

Synopsis Jack Jefferson (James Earl Jones) as a boxer, dealing with the racism and hatred of early-20th century white America. He is not only the first black heavyweight contender; he is also in love with a white woman. Jefferson must not...

6.1

191 votes

6.1

191 votes

The Girl Can't Help It

1956 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Tom Ewell · Jayne Mansfield · Edmond O'Brien · Julie London

Synopsis A down-and-out gangster hires an alcoholic press agent to make his blonde bombshell girlfriend a recording star in 6 weeks. But what is he going to do when he finds out that she has no talent? And what is going...

6.1

186 votes

6.1

186 votes

Move Over, Darling

1963 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Doris Day · James Garner · Polly Bergen · Thelma Ritter

Synopsis Remake of My Favorite Wife, 1940, with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.

5.9

405 votes

5.9

405 votes

The Best Things in Life Are Free

1956 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Gordon MacRae · Dan Dailey · Ernest Borgnine · Sheree North

Synopsis One of the very best of the musical biopics (of the De Sylva/Henderson/Brown songwriting team in the jazz age). Ray Henderson joins Buddy De Sylva and Lew Brown to form a successful 1920s musical show writing team. They soon have...

5.9

31 votes

5.9

31 votes

The Jackpot

1950 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast James Stewart · Barbara Hale · James Gleason · Fred Clark

Synopsis Bill Lawrence wins a slew of prizes on a radio quiz program. His happiness is short-lived when he discovers he'll have to sell the prizes in order to pay the taxes on them.

5.6

34 votes

5.6

34 votes

Kiss Them for Me

1957 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Donen

Cast Cary Grant · Jayne Mansfield · Leif Erickson · Suzy Parker

Synopsis Three decorated Navy pilots finagle a four day leave in San Francisco. They procure a posh suite at the hotel and Commander Crewson, a master of procurement, arranges to populate it with party people. Lieutenant Wallace is trying to get...

5.5

412 votes

5.5

412 votes

Powder River

1953 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Louis King

Cast Rory Calhoun · Corinne Calvet · Cameron Mitchell · Penny Edwards

Synopsis Ex-marshal Chino Bullock has hung up his guns until his prospecting partner is shot dead. Chino then takes over as the law in town, forming a friendship with gun-man Mitch Hardin and making enemies of the Logan brothers. When Hardin'...

5.5

97 votes

5.5

97 votes

5.5

63 votes