For me to say that the score made a movie better or saved it is too subjective for me. I can tell you the scores that made the movie very memorable or became synonymous with the film. In some cases, just the tune sets a whole attitude even apart from the movie for me.

The “DA-DA DA-DA……..” from Jaws is one that starts the “ALERT” juices flowing in most people. Now is the tempo and low frequency of that tune so similar to the physiological reaction that take place inside of us or wouldn’t it have the same effect if we hadn’t seen the movie? I don’t know??

Movies that come to mind as having a musical “SIGNATURE” or identification for me are like:
The Good, the BAD and the UGLY.
Doctor Zhivago
Gold Finger (with 007)
2001 (another Stanley Kubrick)
Patton
Theme from Dragnet
(And one nobody else knows:
Theme from Summer Place by Percie Faith)

Is that what your looking for Skip?

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