Also, the film""s wonderful musical score by Alfred Newman is unforgettable.Ronald Colman, Douglas Fairbanks, and English actor Robert Newton were all considered for the role eventually played by British stage actor Laurence Olivier.They don""t even want to know your name.The unwritten rule is a new guy""s life isn""t worth as much ""cause he hasn""t put his time in yet - and they say, if you""re gonna get killed in the Nam, it""s better to get it in the first few weeks, the logic being you don""t suffer that much.Otherwise, it""s like swimming in an empty swimming pool." Charles is shocked and embarrassed as he wins $500 from the Colonel and roughly $100 from Jean by the end of the evening."]As in many of his films, director Kubrick explores he dimensions of the genre to create the ultimate horror film of a man going mad due to many factors (including alcohol abuse), aspiring writer Jack Torrance (Nicholson), while serving as an off-season caretaker of an isolated, snowbound resort (the Overlook) with his family: wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd).