Herman Stein

Composer · Died March 15, 2007, aged 91 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Born: August 19, 1915
Died: March 15, 2007 (aged 91)
From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Works as: Composer
Titles: 78 on MovieCove · 91 credits in all
Links: IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 37 days to Oct 26

What are Herman Stein's films like?

Across their 65 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Bonds.

Genres

Drama25 titles57^th

Comedy12 titles50^th

Adventure11 titles29^th

Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.

Themes

share of theme weight

Morality

32%

Bonds

22%

Power

15%

Survival

12%

Self

10%

Society

Ideas

Justice19 Survival15 Romantic love12 Redemption10 Greed11 Family bonds8 Loyalty9 Friendship6

What they feel like to watch

their average across 65 films

ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category

Earnest

Tone · Sincerity

ironicearnest

Ironic 2 · Wry 3 · Earnest 59

Light

Tone · Weight

lightdark

Light 36 · Serious 21 · Dark 8

Stylized

Tone · Style

naturalisticheightened

A split, not a type: Grounded 32 · Stylized 30 · Heightened 3

Charged

Feel · Intensity

gentleintense

Gentle 13 · Charged 42 · Intense 10

Shifting

Feel · Swings

steadyswings

A split, not a type: Steady 32 · Shifting 31 · Whiplash 2

Some laughs

Feel · Humor

noneconstant

A split, not a type: Straight-faced 39 · Some laughs 16 · Funny 10

Even-paced

Demand · Pace

slowrelentless

Slow burn 18 · Even-paced 45 · Relentless 2

Casual

Demand · Attention

casualfull focus

Casual 49 · Engaged 15 · Full focus 1

Easy watch

Demand · Emotional cost

easyheavy

Easy watch 47 · Affecting 14 · Heavy 4

Resolved

Demand · Resolution

resolvedambiguous

Resolved 57 · Open-ended 7 · Ambiguous 1

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense

Thrilling

Romantic

Joyful

Melancholic

Other

How their films linger

Fun30 Feel-good28 Bittersweet19 Hopeful20 Rousing12 Thought-provoking7

How their films end · 9 with a twist

Happy38
Bittersweet19
Tragic1
Ambiguous7

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Herman Stein's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 5 of their 78 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (3).

Also on these channels

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Subscription and free streaming for Herman Stein's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

91 credits, 78 with a MovieCove page.

Lost in Space Forever(1998)
Composer
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Let's Kill Uncle(1966)
Composer
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
Mucho Locos (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1966)
Composer
Lost in Space(1965)
Show 3 episodes · Composer
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows
Taggart(1964)
Composer
Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all films
Kitten with a Whip(1964)
Additional Music
Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films
King Kong vs. Godzilla(1963)
Composer
Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films
The Intruder(1962)
Composer
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
No Name on the Bullet(1959)
Composer
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Ride a Crooked Trail(1958)
Additional Music
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
Money, Women and Guns(1958)
Composer
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films
Step Down to Terror(1958)
Composer
Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all films
The Thing That Couldn't Die(1958)
Composer
Midcredits score: 8th percentile of all films
The Lady Takes a Flyer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1958)
Composer
The Last of the Fast Guns(1958)
Composer
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films
The Saga of Hemp Brown(1958)
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Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all films
This Is Russia! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1958)
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The Monolith Monsters(1957)
Composer
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films
The Tarnished Angels(1957)
Additional Music
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
Slim Carter (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1957)
Composer
Joe Dakota(1957)
Composer
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
The Land Unknown(1957)
Composer
Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all films
Quantez(1957)
Composer
Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all films
The Midnight Story(1957)
Composer
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
The Night Runner (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1957)
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Mister Cory (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1957)
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The Incredible Shrinking Man(1957)
Composer
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
Four Girls in Town(1957)
Composer
Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all films
Love Slaves of the Amazons(1957)
Composer
Midcredits score: 7th percentile of all films
Man in the Shadow(1957)
Composer
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
The Unguarded Moment (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1956)
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The Great Man (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1956)
Composer
The Mole People(1956)
Composer
Midcredits score: 17th percentile of all films
I've Lived Before (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1956)
Composer
The Kettles in the Ozarks (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1956)
Composer
Backlash(1956)
Composer
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
There's Always Tomorrow(1956)
Composer
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Everything But the Truth(1956)
Composer
Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films
Francis in the Haunted House(1956)
Composer
Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films
Tarantula(1955)
Composer
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
Female on the Beach(1955)
Composer
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films
Captain Lightfoot (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1955)
Composer
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops(1955)
Composer
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
Six Bridges to Cross(1955)
Composer
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films
Revenge of the Creature(1955)
Composer
Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all films
Kiss of Fire(1955)
Composer
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films
Man Without a Star(1955)
Composer
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
The Purple Mask(1955)
Composer
Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films
The Spoilers(1955)
Composer
Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all films
This Island Earth(1955)
Composer
Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films
So This Is Paris(1954)
Composer
Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all films
Destry(1954)
Composer
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
The Black Shield of Falworth(1954)
Composer
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films
Rails Into Laramie (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1954)
Composer
Creature from the Black Lagoon(1954)
Composer
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
The Far Country(1954)
Composer
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
Bengal Brigade(1954)
Composer
Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films
Black Horse Canyon(1954)
Composer
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films
Border River(1954)
Composer
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films
Dawn at Socorro(1954)
Composer
Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films
Drums Across the River(1954)
Composer
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
Four Guns to the Border(1954)
Composer
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home(1954)
Composer
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Ride Clear of Diablo(1954)
Composer
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
Saskatchewan(1954)
Composer
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
The Golden Blade(1953)
Composer
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
It Came from Outer Space(1953)
Composer
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
City Beneath the Sea(1953)
Composer
Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all films
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars(1953)
Composer
Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films
All I Desire(1953)
Composer
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films
Column South(1953)
Composer
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films
Francis Covers the Big Town(1953)
Composer
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films
Girls in the Night(1953)
Composer
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films
Gunsmoke(1953)
Composer
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
The Great Sioux Uprising(1953)
Composer
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films
The Lone Hand(1953)
Composer
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films
The Redhead from Wyoming(1953)
Composer
Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films
The Veils of Bagdad(1953)
Composer
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
Tumbleweed(1953)
Composer
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
War Arrow(1953)
Composer
Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all films
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1952)
Composer
Horizons West(1952)
Composer
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films
The Duel at Silver Creek(1952)
Composer
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
Son of Ali Baba(1952)
Composer
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
Lost in Alaska(1952)
Composer
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all films
Has Anybody Seen My Gal(1952)
Composer
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
Here Come the Nelsons(1952)
Composer
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films
Back at the Front(1952)
Composer
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Francis Goes to West Point(1952)
Composer
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films
The Lawless Breed(1952)
Composer
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films
The Strange Door(1951)
Composer
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films

Career shape

A full career of 56 titles from 1951 to 1998.

Biggest box office

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

$25K worldwide

Highest rated

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Midcredits 94^th

By role

only this rolewith another role

Music56 of 56 · 58^th

By decade

1950s48 · crew1960s7 · crew1990s1 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

How do Herman Stein's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 51^st percentile, the median of all 77; across their 65 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 51^st percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

51^stpercentile

Typical film, the median of 65

Approval · how many liked their films

48^thpercentile

Typical film, the median of 65

Reach · how many have seen their films

48^thpercentile

Typical film, the median of 65

Midcredits score across 78 titles, by percentile

75^th and up12
50^th to 74^th30
25^th to 49^th29
Below 25^th7

Shape of the crowd

38 of their 78 titles are Crowd Pleasers.

Universally Loved3
Crowd Pleaser38
Broadly Agreed22
Mixed15

Most divisive · composer

Lost in Space Forever (1998)

72^nd percentile spread · 12% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · composer

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Midcredits 94^th · 83% liked

Reviewers score the sound and music 56/100 in their films, across 47 reviewed titles; fans 62, detractors 41. The element that speaks to their work as a composer.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.