Tiomkin also wrote scores for four of Alfred Hitchcock's suspense dramas: "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943), "Strangers on a Train" (1951), "I Confess" (1953), and "Dial M for Murder" (1954). Here he used a lush style relying on solo violins and muted trumpets. He composed the score for the science fiction thriller "The Thing from Another World" (1951), which is considered his "strangest and most experimental score." He also worked with Howard Hawks on "The Big Sky" (1952) and "Land of the Pharaohs" (1955), with John Huston on "The Unforgiven" (1960), and with Nicholas Ray on "55 Days at Peking" (1963).