John Williams is a legendary movie score composer whose lush orchestrations have greatly contributed to such films as Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List and Jaws to name just a few. His contributions to the world of film are immeasurable.
Everyone has to start somewhere, however, and the famed composer got his start in 1958 on the low budget B-Film Daddy-O.
Aiming to be a low budget Rebel Without A Cause, but instead a crime film filled with gratuitous young people and music, Daddy-O was a cheaply produced, poorly received filler film that was used to fill out the lower end of a double bill. The young people would be disappointed, as would the stars of the film; as Dick Contino once noted, he ended up in the unemployment line after this box office bungle right behind the film's director Lou Place. John Williams' destiny, however, would literally be in the stars.
