When I heard it, I couldn't get over how similar it was to another movie's theme. I found the score to this other movie on my shelf and found no credit given to Auric. Therefore, I think there was some serious plagiarizing going on!
Another composer used that theme too. The most funny thing is that he also rearranged his own theme from another movie (opening strings and some part of tune). Used it in this one. And later used it one more time in another movie By the way, I have all three CDs with that theme )))