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guns for san sebastian, ennio morricone, film score monthly
€ 22.00

 
guns for san sebastian
(1968)


composer: ennio morricone

label: Film Score Monthly

AKA: la Bataille de San Sebastian, los Cañones de San Sebastián, i Cannoni di San Sebastian

total duration: 00.58.51

soundtrack style: western adventure



   


tracks

01. The Overture
02. Prologue / The Chase
03. Church Music / Sneaking Away
04. The Long Trek
05. The Assault
06. The Bandits / Leon Tied / Bleeding Statue
07. Love Theme From Guns for San Sebastian (Kinita's Plea)
08. Restoring the Village
09. Teclo Shamed / Surveying the Fields
10. Building the Dam / Hymn for San Sebastian
11. Leon Fights Teclo
12. The Burning Village
13. Love Theme From Guns for San Sebastian (Leon Tells His Love)
14. Love Theme From Guns for San Sebastian (Leon Leaves Kinita)
15. Music at the Governor's Dinner
16. Army March / Yaqui Camp
17. The White Stallion
18. The Gift
19. Gift Returned / Leon's Mass / The Attack
20. The Villagers Prepare to Blow Up the Dam
21. Teclo's Death / Victory
22. End Title

Bonus Tracks:

23. The Chase - Alternate
24. Love Theme From Guns for San Sebastian (Leon Tells His Love) - Album version

 
 
further information
A beautiful colour booklet
Silver Age Classics series
Complete score
Featuring the voice of Edda Dell'Orso
 
description
It has taken eight years and over 130 CDs but FSM finally releases a score by the great Ennio Morricone: Guns for San Sebastian (1968), commonly known as a western but more accurately a historical adventure set in Mexico circa 1750.
The film stars Anthony Quinn as an outlaw who is mistaken for a priest and protects a humble village against a violent tribe of Indians; Charles Bronson is the antagonist and Anjanette Comer the love interest.
Filmed in Mexico, the international production is a sunburnt, action-packed look at a violent time in colonial Latin American history.
The late 1960s were an especially fertile period for Ennio Morricone, whose prolific genius has enhanced hundreds of films for over 40 years.
By 1968 Morricone had already scored the groundbreaking Dollars trilogy for Sergio Leone, establishing the revolutionary style for the spaghetti westerns, and Guns for San Sebastian preceded their western masterpiece, Once Upon a Time in the West.
In both films, the operatic grandeur of Morricone's transcendent themes enhance the spiritual journey of a stranger in a strange land, orchestrated for choir as well as orchestra; in Guns for San Sebastian, voices appears for the religion theme (for Quinn's priest friend) and the love theme, the latter featuring the voice of Edda Dell'Orso.
Guns for San Sebastian is also an action film and Morricone responded with violent, percussive music for the Yaquis Indians, with vocal cries by Gianna Spagnulo (who also performed on Morricone's Navajo Joe and Moses).
In addition, Morricone wrote heartfelt, deceptively simple melodies for the peasants whose humanity grounds the story, and unique cues as needed for scenes of action, suspense and humor.
Guns for San Sebastian has been available on LP and CD over the years, but always in a brief (33:24) program with deficient sound quality.
This premiere CD of the complete score (resequenced in film order) has been remixed and remastered from the original 1/2" stereo tapes (recorded in Italy) for superior sound quality.
It is the definitive presentation of this classic Morricone score.
 
story

In this French/Italian co-production set in Mexico in 1746, Alastray (Anthony Quinn), a gunman on the run from the law, happens upon a Franciscan priest, Father Joseph (Sam Jaffe), while in flight.
Father Joseph shows mercy on the fugitive and allows Alastray to stay with him, but when the locals find out that Joseph is harboring criminals, he's run out of town; Alastray travels with him, disguised as a monk.
While approaching what appears to be a deserted village, Father Joseph is killed by a sniper, and Alastray heads into town.
He is met by Teclo (Charles Bronson), a half-breed who calls the village home.
It seems that a band of savage Yaqui Indians have been terrorizing the town and have a special hatred for men of faith; they intend to continue laying waste to the village until the residents beg for mercy and renounce Christianity.
The Village leaders want to make Alastray their new spiritual leader, and despite his great reluctance, he agrees, mostly as a means of maintaining his cover.
But when Alastray tries to organize the building of a much needed dam, as well as obtaining a stash of weapons so that the citizens may defend themselves, the Yaquis return in force, leading to a decisive confrontation.
Guns for San Sebastian also features Anjanette Comer and Silvia Pinal.

Cast:
Anthony Quinn, Anjanette Comer, Charles Bronson, Sam Jaffe, Silvia Pinal, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Jaime Fernández, Rosa Furman, Leon Askin

Director:
Henri Verneuil

 

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