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What happened to Dimitri Tiomkin in 1952?
Dimitri Tiomkin composed the score High Noon (1952).
who was the director for High Noon?
Fred Zinnemann was the director for High Noon.
what was special about High Noon?
Though mired in controversy with political overtones at the time of its release, High Noon's award-winning score was written by Russian-born composer Dimitri Tiomkin.

Question: was it successful?
Self-contained rewrite: was High Noon successful?