Goldsmith's growing reputation as a TV composer meant that he was able to leave CBS and launch himself as a freelance composer-arranger, moving into films in the late 1950s, encouraged by the celebrated screen composer, Alfred Newman . A series of more than 100 Goldsmith film scores began in 1957 with the film, Black Patch. His first notable success was the music he composed for the 1962 western, Lonely Are the Brave, starring Kirk Douglas. In 1976, Goldsmith received an Academy...