Bill, terrific week.

I didn't listen to every minute so I don't know whether you played themes from these films:

Best Years of Our Lives
Treasure of Sierra Madre
Man with the Golden Arm [Elmer Bernstein's debut, I believe]

On the Waterfront [Leonard B]
Charade [Hepburn and Grant]
Breakfast at Tiffanys

The Great Escape
Butch Cassidy and etc.
Chinatown [Jerry Goldsmith did this in three weeks]

Tootsie

And that's all, folks.

Morricone's haunting score for Once Upon in America about turn of the century lower east side hoodlum friends was matched by his music for Bugsy, Beatty's riveting tale of other Jewish and Italian gangsters of the same era.

Both are among the great post-1960 films.

yes-this is a wonderful old black spiritual that Dvorak adapted.

In the movie "The Snake Pit" with Olivia Dehavilland concerning the care of people with emotional problems, considered insane and institutionialized. In one scene a young woman stands in the center of the common room (snake pit) and sings "Going Home, going home, we are going home". Dvorak uses this melody in the "New World Symphony".
I don't think I saw the movie when it first came out (1948?), which is good because I would not have understood it then. But I remember seeing it on television later and I knew that melody and the lyric.
Was this an American song and from where?