Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin 1894 –1979. A Ukrainian-born, American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in St. Petersburg, Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Berlin and then New York City after the Russian Revolution. In 1929, after the stock market crash, he moved to Hollywood, where he became best known for his scores for Western films, including Duel in the Sun, Red River, High Noon, The Big Sky, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and Last Train from Gun Hill.
Tiomkin received twenty-two Academy Award nominations and won four Oscars, three for Best Original Score for High Noon, The High and the Mighty, and The Old Man and the Sea, and one for Best Original Song for "The Ballad of High Noon" from the former film

The Sundowners is a 1960 Technicolor film that tells the story of an Australian outback family torn between the father's desires to continue his nomadic sheep-herding ways and the wife's and son's desire to settle down in one place. The film stars Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov, with a supporting cast including Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill, Michael Anderson Jr., and Chips Rafferty.
The screenplay was adapted by Isobel Lennart from Jon Cleary's 1952 novel of the same name; it was produced and directed by Fred Zinnemann. It falls into the Australian meat pie Western genre.
At the 33rd Academy Awards, The Sundowners was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Deborah Kerr), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Glynis Johns), Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

On this video a different take, but also based on fading tradition. The traditional traveling gypsies in their ornate colourful wagons, once a common sight beside the way on some rustic lane. The whole notion of this way of life still has a strong romantic appeal, escaping the pressures of the twenty first century for a simpler outdoor existence closer to Nature.
Enjoy the catchy little tune that seems to gently trot on its merry way.

Album Info:-
Dimitri Tiomkin: The Sundowners Theme
'Mantovani plays the Theme from Exodus and other Themes'
From a vinyl E.P. on Decca DFE 6671 - released 1961

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