The one concrete and indisputable conclusion at which one can arrive, vis-a-vis the intransigence of Dino Delaurentiis and John Huston on THE BIBLE, is that it cost posterity one more score in Rózsa's oeuvre for us to enjoy and cherish, especially since the early 1970s were a fairly fallow period for the composer.

Still, one might ask whether Rózsa bothered to look back to his one-time-only experience with Huston on THE ASPHALT JUNGLE fourteen years earlier, and Huston's well-established penchant for employing off-beat composers and scores in films such as MOBY DICK and NIGHT OF THE IGUANA.

Obviously, a "romantic adventure tale" was not apt to bring forth from Rózsa his greatest inspiration (though TIME AFTER TIME certainly falls into this category), but a Rózsa score is a Rózsa score.