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she was only following instructions from the producer or director.


The way Rozsa told the story, it was the sound editor's -- he never mentioned a name --constant pressure on director Anthony Mann that kept inducing Mann to remove more and more music from the mix. Rozsa appealed to Bronston, and the producer upheld his director. The result was that Rozsa walked away from the organization and someody else wound up scoring The Fall of the Roman Empire.

It's interesting how the same pattern emerges in the stories about Fedora and The Greatest Story Ever Told (the latter as related by Ken Darby). In each case the composer, or his representative, puts the blame not on the director but on somebody whispering into the director's ear. And such accounts have the ring of truth. There are lots of different participants in any film production. It's hardly surprising that each one of them would argue for the importance of his own contribution. The director and producer get to make their choices, and we can take the result or leave it.