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FA6712 La resa dei conti / The Big Gundown
Auther: Jonathan Broxton

ENNIO MORRICONE REVIEWS, Part 2-25

LA RESA DEI CONTI [THE BIG GUNDOWN] (1966)

Another acclaimed spaghetti western, La Resa dei Conti was directed by Sergio Sollima and starred Lee Van Cleef as ageing bounty hunter Jonathan Corbett, who is tasked by a railroad tycoon named Brokston to capture and/or kill Mexican bandito Cuchillo, who has been accused of raping and murdering a 12-year-old girl. However, Corbett is not as reliable as he used to be, and Cuchillo evades him, forcing Brokston – who has stakes his future political career on Cuchillo capture – to send a second bounty hunter to take out Cuchillo and, if necessary, Corbett as well. The film co-starred Walter Barnes, Tomas Milian, and Gérard Herter, and was acclaimed by film critics such as Leonard Maltin as one of the finest spaghetti westerns, second only to Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy.

Morricone’s score is another one of his experimental, unusual compositions for the genre, which combined traditional action scoring with a number of unique and often quite bizarre sounds and arrangements. The main title cue “La Caccia,” for example. begins with what I can only describe as ‘the sounds of someone making squawking bird noises, and someone rubbing wet fingers across a window,’ but it slowly develops into a superbly adventurous main theme with a resounding trumpet chorus , relentless horse-gallop percussion, and an angelic female soprano vocal.

As one of the most popular western scores, the score for The Big Gundown has been released multiple times. The best presentation of the complete score is probably the one released by GDM Music in 2012, which features more than 50 minutes of music, including the two performances of the original song “Run Man Run” performed by vocalist Christy with Alessandro Alessandroni’s choir I Cantori Moderni, and conducted by Bruno Nicolai.

Track Listing: 1. Run Man Run (2:48), 2. La Vedova (1:11), 3. Titoli di Testa (La Caccia) (2:39), 4. La Corrida (1:52), 5. Dopo la Condanna (1:44), 6. Primo Deserto (2:30), 7. La Condanna (1:12), 8. La Resa (2:47), 9. La Resa dei Conti (Seconda Caccia) (2:19), 10. Arriva Cucillo (0:49), 11. Coro dei Mormoni (1:40), 12. Secondo Deserto (1:24), 13. Titoli di Coda (La Resa dei Conti) (1:02), 14. Corri Uomo Corri (2:48), 15. Arriva Cucillo (Versione Lunga) (1:49), 16. La Resa dei Conti (Titoli – Ripresa) (2:00), 17. Primo Deserto (Jonathan Corbett) (1:51), 18. La Vedova (Il Ranch) (2:03), 19. Primo Deserto (Arriva Corbett) (1:51), 20. La Resa dei Conti (Square Dance Nuziale) (5:08), 21. Primo Deserto (Il Morso del Serpente) (4:24), 22. La Resa dei Conti (Rosita) (2:21), 23. Primo Deserto (Preso nell’Imboscata) (0:54), 24. La Resa dei Conti (Mariachi) (0:41), 25. Run Man Run (Titoli Finale) (3:21). GDM Music 4215, 53 minutes 08 seconds.
August 20, 2017
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Run Man Run (Titoli di Testa)
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Dopo la Condanna
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La Resa dei Conti (Square Dance Nuziale)
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Arriva Cuchillo
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Coro dei Mormoni
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La Resa dei Conti (Titoli-ripresa)
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Primo Deserto (Jonathan Corbett)
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La Vedova (Il Ranch)
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La Corrida
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La Vedova
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Primo Deserto (Arriva Corbett)
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Corri Uomo Corri
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Primo Deserto
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Secondo Deserto
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Primo Deserto (Il Morso del Serpente)
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La Resa dei Conti (Rosita)
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La Resa dei Conti (Mariachi)
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La Resa dei Conti (La Caccia)
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La Resa dei Conti (Seconda Caccia)
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Primo Deserto (Preso Nell'imboscata)
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La Resa dei Conti
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La Condanna
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La Resa
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Run Man Run (Titoli Finale)
Attachment: About Jonathan Broxton
Jon is a film music critic and journalist, who since 1997 has been the editor and chief reviewer for Movie Music UK, one of the world’s most popular English-language film music websites, and is the president of the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA). Over the last 20+ years Jon has written over 3,000 reviews and articles and conducted numerous composer interviews. In print, Jon has written reviews and articles for publications such as Film Score Monthly, Soundtrack Magazine and Music from the Movies, and has written liner notes for two of Prometheus Records’ classic Basil Poledouris score releases, “Amanda” and “Flyers/Fire on the Mountain”. He also contributed a chapter to Tom Hoover’s book “Soundtrack Nation: Interviews with Today’s Top Professionals in Film, Videogame, and Television Scoring”, published in 2011. In the late 1990s Jon was a film music consultant to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, and worked with them on the films “Relative Values” with music by John Debney, and “The Ring of the Buddha” with music by Oliver Heise, as well as on a series of concerts with Randy Newman. In 2012, Jon chaired one of the “festival academies” at the 5th Annual Film Music Festival in Krakow, Poland. He is a member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists, the premier nonprofit organization for composers, lyricists, and songwriters working motion pictures, television, and multimedia. (Here)
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