Max Steiner — The Caine Mutiny
This was a record, half dialogue, and half soundtrack. When the novel’s writer, Herman Wouk, threatened to stop letting the studio use his work again if they released the album, it was initially scrapped. When he saw they were lifting them from the novel verbatim, he was furious. This was why the agreement between him and Columbia was to stop the release and destroy all the copies they made. Several staff did, however, save a couple of copies. One copy even went for $6,700 in 2007.
Max Steiner, The Caine Mutiny
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