A very interesting read Rog, Thanks to our Canandian pal for forwarding it to you and to you for posting it.

I've got the movie on DVD and have watched it once many years ago so it might be fun to revisit it. Not my fave war movie as I seem to remember that the "love interest" scenes are weak and embarrasing, Cliff Robertson is ill-cast in the role as is the Greek actor playing a Norwegian.

My main interest in the movie of course is the musical score and I noticed with delight that the author of the article spent quite a few lines on the score by Ron Goodwin.

I had the luck to know Ron through an uncle who worked for the Danish Radio Broadcasting Organisation, and after making a radio program on Ron they struck up a friendship.

Ron told me that he was inspired to use "633" as a formula for the number of beats. It's not an exact match, but it was his first inspiration when he started to compose the theme.