The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
You may love Captain Blood (1935) for Erich Wolfgang Korngold's compostion-- but it's Hugo Friedhofer's orchestration that makes the music soar to the adventure on the screen. Friedhofer also did the orchestrations for such diverse films as The Green Pastures, The Garden of Allah, The Charge of the Light Brigade, and Anthony Adverse -- all of them in 1936, and this is only a small portion of the list! As an orchestrator, he was usually uncredited, but he was instrumental (pardon the pun) for many of the soaring and emotional-pitch moments in the movies musically in the 1930s, working at Warner Bros and Goldwyn Studios.
Friedhofer was also working as an arranger as well as a composer of stock music. Friedhofer would also be called in for composing specific additional music for a film, whick he did for the likes of Gone With the Wind (1939) and composed scores for movies without screen credit -- he did that dozens of times-- for Peter Ibbetson (1935), The Mark of Zorro (1940) and Gilda (1946). The Bishop's Wife, Body and Soul, Joan of Arc, and Enchantment (all from 1948) he is given screen credit.
Besides Bernard Herrmann or Elmer Bernstein, Friedhofer can score to the emotional moment in the scene, making the music the bookmark in your memory to recall the preciseness of the character's feelings.