It has been said that this was the first Hollywood film to use a fully symphonic musical score. As memorable and effective as the musical score was, some have made the same claim about R.K.O.'s Luana la vergine sacra (1932), released earlier. Regardless, Max Steiner, composer for both films (and many later classics, including Via col vento (1939) and Casablanca (1942)) was a visionary, forward-thinking man. One of the legends surrounding this film is that director Merian C. Cooper paid Steiner from his own pocket after R.K.O. bosses expressed concern over mounting production costs.

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