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uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo, ennio morricone, digitmovies
13.95

 
Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo
(1970)


composer: ennio morricone

label: digitmovies

AKA: Kill the Fatted Calf

total duration: 00.39.17

soundtrack style: drama thriller



   


tracks

01. Lungo La Stradina
02. Ai Confini Della Follia
03. Uccidete Il Vitello Grasso (Titoli)
04. Ricordo Tanti Fiori
05. Ai Confini Della Follia # 2 *
06. La Fredda Lama Del Coltello
07. Echi Del '700
08. Scivolando Nel Buio
09. Lungo La Stradina # 2 *
10. Ricordo Tanti Fiori # 2 *

* Previously unreleased

 
 
further information
8 page colour booklet containing introduction colour movie stills and a reproduction of an original poster
 
description
Digitmovies proudly presents the fifth volume dedicated to Italian Giallo movies scored by 2007 Oscar winner Ennio Morricone:
Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo directed by Salvatore Samperi and starring Jean Sorel, Marilù Tolo and Maurizio Degli Esposti.
This CD project was made possible once again thanks to the help of our friends at C.A.M. where the original stereo session tapes have been preserved until today.
Shortly before his very first US concert in Radio City Music Hall in New York, Maestro Ennio Morricone personally wanted to collaborate with us on the realization of this album modifying the previously issued material available on the 1984 US Long Play album (Cerberus) and on its 1991 CD reissue (CAM).
Considered to be uncongenial, the track Shake introspettivo has been eliminated by the author from an artistic point of view.
So accordingly this CD was compiled respecting M° Morricone's conception so as to present something new compared with the previous record releases.
This particular soundtrack perfectly reflects the plot of the movie situated in a macabre and mysterious Sicily, a giallo-noir full of cruel twists.
Ennio Morricone composed a score with a pastoral mood, enriched with canons of the Renaissance but with a stunning modern beat arrangement typical for the late 60's:
after a short introduction for flute the joyful theme is developed through trumpet, harpsichord, bass guitar and rhythm (Tr. 1), reprised later with a more up-tempo version (Tr. 9).
Morricone wrote a romantic and melancholic theme introduced first in Tr. 2, and reprised as a beat ballad with bass flute (Tr. 4) and with high pitched flute (Tr. 10).
Scenes with the young protagonist are emphasized by aggressive and morbid shakes like Titoli (Tr. 3) or the one arranged for trumpet and repeatedly interrupted by dissonant chords (Tr. 6) and last but not least the one for organ and female voice, between sacred and profane (Tr. 8).
The obscure side of the story is emphasized by a long contemporary piece (Tr. 5).
 
story

The first color film by writer/director Salvatore Samperi is this grim family melodrama, a modern-day reinvention of the tale of the Prodigal Son.
Upon hearing of his father's death, Enrico Merlo (Jean Sorel) leaves his boarding school in Switzerland and returns home to Padua.
There he overhears a conversation between his older brother Cesare (Maurizio Degli Espositi), who has taken over the profitable family business, and Verde (Marilù Tolo), Cesare's cousin and lover.
Their words persuade Enrico that the two have murdered his father; he obtains proof when he discovers that his father's death certificate post-dates his death.
But Enrico becomes gravely ill with pneumonia, all the while refusing to return the incriminating death certificate to the killers, and so Verde makes sure he is denied his needed medication and lets him die.

Cast:
Jean Sorel, Marilù Tolo, Maurizio Degli Esposti, Gigi Ballista, Noris Fiorina, Pier Paolo Capponi, Aleka Paizi, Bernadette Kell, Gianni Pulone, Franca Sciutto

Director:
Salvatore Samperi

 

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