RARESCORES TEAM

PRESENTS

( BIG GUNDOWN)

COMPLETE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK RECORDING

Music Composed by

ENNIO MORRICONE

 

SOUNDTRACK DETAILS

38 tracks - 70:34 min

Music Conducted by Bruno Nicolai

Chorus: I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni

Vocals by Christy

 It contains a Powerful and stirring main theme which can be heard in varying arrangements throughout  the complete score.

 Morricone's score was an important feature throughout the movie, at times the music running almost continuously, punctuating the antics of the oppressed and wrongly accused Mexican peasant rogue. Cuchillo.(Tomas Milian) who was being pursued by lawman Johnathan Corbett (Lee Van Cleef).

 In this score you can find pounding percussion that accompanies shrills and shrieks that mimic animal sounds in the opening section of the film's main theme, these give way to thundering kettledrums that herald a slower paced percussive interlude which acts as support to the marvellous voice of Edda Dell Orso, who performs the film's principal theme with ease and perfection. This part of the composition builds to a crescendo that in turn leads into a full working of the theme on brass, accompanied and embellished by strings, percussion and choir, that carry the piece along to its thundering and dramatic conclusion.

 

FILM DETAILS

Director: Sergio SOLLIMA
Release Year: 1967
Production Company: Produzioni Europee Associate ; Producciones Cinematograficas Tullio Demicheli
Country: Italy/Spain

Cast:

Lee VAN CLEEF - Jonathan Corbett
Tomas MILIAN - Cuchillo
Walter BARNES - Brokston
Luisa RIVELLI - Lizzie
Fernando SANCHO - Captain Segura
Nieves NAVARRO
Susan SCOTT - The Widow
Benito STEFANELLI - Jess
Maria GRANADA - Rosita
Roberto CAMARDIEL - Jellicol
Spartaco CONVERSI - Mitchell
Romano PUPPO - rocky
Tom FELLEGHI - Chet
Antonio CASAS - Dance
Gerard HERTER

Credits:
Alberto GRIMALDI - Producer
Nino ZANCHIN - Assistant Director
Sergio DONATI - Scriptwriter
Sergio SOLLIMA - Scriptwriter
Franco SOLINAS - Original story
Fernando MORANDI - Original story
Carlo CARLINI - Photography
Carlo SIMI - Art Director
Ennio MORRICONE - Music
Bruno NICOLAI - Music Director
Carlo SIMI - Costumes