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May 5, 2015 - 11:14 PM
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The Thing
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The Glenn Ford film means nothing to me (never seen it or heard the score).
Guess that's why "The Thing" has Chickenhearted on ignore ... he doesn't care for vintage cinema. 
Ha ha, no, I haven't got him on ignore. I like Dragon53's movie news posts, and they just get blurred by the relentless plethora of Chickenhearted threads, also in capital letters with the film names. But as the ignore function doesn't filter the entire threads, there was no point using it.
I like some vintage cinema (1950s or earlier), but probably not a great deal. Not to say that I dislike it, but it's just not something I tend to have any desire to watch unless it's a classic or big epic (and even then I might not like it, but at least I made an attempt to investigate those ones). In my DVD collection, apart from all the Hammer Horrors and some Vincent Price horrors, the oldest films that I own are King Kong, Ben Hur and Spartacus. Everything else seems to be 1960s onwards.
The Western genre was one of the few genres that I avidly disliked. All that John Wayne stuff, and the old Wild West, and cowboys and indians etc., doesn't float my boat at all. It wasn't until I discovered the Clint Eastwood "Dollars trilogy" that I found I really liked that particular style, and branched out from there into many more Spaghetti Westerns, and a few of the other subsequent non-Italian violent Westerns.
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May 5, 2015 - 11:57 PM
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The Thing
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Some great replies from people, you have been busy.
Whilst my original post was looking more for the Spaghetti Western sound outside of the Italian genre, there's a few titles I'm familiar with that are relevant suggestions. I'll check back in later with a more detailed reply when I've had a chance to listen to samples of some suggestions . I even own a few titles mentioned, so I'll re-listen to those CDs later as well and see if they are relevant to this topic, and then that will give an idea of how I view the description "dark, gritty, brooding, etc."
But seeing as How The West Was Won stirred up a small debate, I did give that a brief listen through each track on YouTube just now to see what it sounded like, and I'll say that it doesn't meet my criteria at all. To me, that is old fashioned, and I would describe it as more of a Golden Age romantic melodrama, with a light and jaunty flavour. But definitely not a "dark" score to my ears.
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Hey, in my original post I made clear I didn't think HTWWW fit overall, but I do find the main theme to be pretty intense and serious, certainly not jaunty. That's why I recommended The Bravados as a much darker score.
If you actually want a spaghetti western sound for non-Italian movies, I'd recommend Ken Thorne's Hannie Caulder (Good British western) and Dominic Frontiere's Barquero...
Yavar
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