Steiner, Max - Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (Film Score) - Stromberg, William (conductor)

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Four basic periods mark Max Steiner's long film-composing career. The first period covered his RKO, Selznick and Warner years through 1937. These were the experimental and innovative years when film music came into its own as an American art form. The RKO years offered comparatively little reward or recognition (each King Kong or She or The Most Dangerous Game was matched by twenty minimally scored potboilers) and the Selznick years offered innumerable headaches. At Warners, starting with The Charge of the Light Brigade in 1936, Steiner achieved recognition and autonomy and he composed for the studio, though not exclusively, till his retirement in 1965.

Max's success as a supremely versatile composer may have contributed to the somewhat tarnished reputation attached to his music for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, for how can one so adept at scoring so many diverse genres possibly excel at composing for any one of them! At the time of the picture's release the score was universally hailed, earning Max the Vienna Cinema Exhibition Award. While he did receive an Oscar nomination that year, it was for Johnny Belinda (an Academy loss that Max deeply regretted). However, as Sierra Madre has garnered praise as a cinema masterpiece, some critics have complained that Max's full-blown musical accompaniment is intrusive and detracts from the otherwise "realistic" style of the film. Others (including Steiner's former orchestrator Hugo Friedhofer) have charged the music is of "Spanish" rather than "Mexican" character.