Ronald Stein

Ronald Stein was never a major name in the fraternity of soundtrack composers in the manner of Bernard Herrmann or Alfred Newman; indeed, Stein spent most of his career writing scores for movies whose entire budgets were scarcely larger than the money allocated just for music on most of the films that Herrmann or Newman worked on. He was a highly inventive composer and conductor, working within the confines of the absurdly low budgets that he was assigned and also managed to carve out a special niche for himself in B-movies, particularly exploitation films, science-fiction thr...