Malcolm Arnold composed numerous symphonies, ballets and concerts, but became particularly famous thanks to the whistling prisoner of war from The Bridge on the River Kwai. Arnolds arrangement went back on a patriotic march of World War I. The British moviegoers associated the tune, however, especially with the scabrous "Hitler has only got one ball. Vulgar or not, the composer was left with an
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