Good script and direction, some wonderful performances (esp Perkins and Cooper) -- but the syrupy Tiomkin score, esp the theme tune, are used incessantly to hammer home every plot point. (A sin John Williams is often guilty of!) One wonder why producers can't trust fine performances, a literate script and excellent photograph to carry a film. Too often syrup is poured over fine work and warps the final product ... another example, at random - "Out of Africa."