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you beat me to it. i waz gona post that heads up too.
that is a rare t.v screening.
decent ish spag. A sort of Magnificent Five
The films status was definitely given a hoist up by the composer.
one or two good set pieces, especially the chase sequence where our samouri has to catch the train.
i particularly liked the sequences where they are recruiting the five and the main theme pops up - in the movie the music has a rawness to it that a lot of ennios scores seem to lose on LP. i suspect a lot were smoothed out or re-records, bit like GBU Trio. The stuff recorded from the films off the tv seemed to emphasise the shrieks and whistles and mule brays and bursts of clavioline! it died in the mix on the LPs.
weve also had Boot Hill (terence hil) on movies4men and a weird Joseph Cotten william shatner western called White Commanche. which had a very obtrusive and out of place jazz score.
"Hey amigo, the Dutchman wants to see you..."
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Yes, no classic but a good enjoyable movie I've seen a couple of times, though the last time was MANY years ago. Obviously all the better for some cracking music. I do indeed remember the scene once they're all together and ride five across the screen to that amazing theme. The theme itself is easily one of Ennio's best.
Of course now we have the wonderful FSM cd, but I first got the LP in the 70s from a mail order shop called Soundtrack and General. Anyone remember them in the UK? I spotted the ad in the now long gone movie magazine Photoplay. It was there I first got Once Upon A Time in the West on vinyl too, along with a number of Morricone compilations which included one that had the Montenegro pop version of TGTBATU! Barely out of school...
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brockley (location of the S and G shop) was a tricky place to get to BR but i went a few times and did mail order with mike a lot of years.
yeah i think the original 5 man was ariete wasnt it? (with the 5 big heads)? was the Duse Lp the reissue? with Bud spencer in hammock? certainly mike got a lot of customers through that LP and advertising it coz it had its uk tv premiere on bbc and everyone was asking about how they could get the score. the original was rare and No one gave them up!!
and i think i got my OuatitW at S and G too Paul - and the double LPs with the booklets.
either way happy days.
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ouatitW was a problem for them. itv sat on it for quite a while for the optimum slot.
i may have said this before but the problem was the hanging scene and whether it fell before the watershed and the whole thing geared around their fixed 10pm "News at ten" and the film finishing late past peoples bedtimes!!
i kid you not. bearing in mind this was before 24 hr telly. some of you may recall that any Tv broadcasting after 1am was rarer than a 5 man army original!
i think they got around it by running it on the bank holiday in the end.
but being a 1968 film it could have been aired long before mid/late 70s!
hornets nest was screened as one of the bbcs monday night regular premieres 9.25 after the news.
as had For a few dollars more some years earlier.
sorry for all this dreary detail - just stuff that stuck with me because it was so important at the time. it was the Only access to most of it. long before video made it more accessable.
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guys you gotta see this white commanche Shatner film on movies4men!!
oh my lord - shatner is playing 2 parts, twin blond brothers, one a full blown commanche, one an indian in gunmans clothes and joseph cotten is the sheriff.
i know the migration of american stars to spain to fit in a quick 4 week italian western in the summer inbetween u.s work was a widespread bandwagon - but is there a more unlikely name in the huge list as Shatner - and in a tom hardy Kray way playing two brothers!!
hilariously the indian brother has the same short blond hair but with warpaint!!
you gotta see this.
i havent looked it up but it may be part french, but its almost too cheap and nasty to be a bonafide spaghetti italian western - as the credits showed some strange names.
wheres Zoob - man, you better check out your man capt kirk!
add edit. very defo a Paella spanish western. peculiar out-of-place score, by Jean Ledrut. main theme was catchy but un-westernlike. with the odd double bass jazz backing thrown in. it sounded familiar, as tho somewhere ive got the theme on a compilation. best way to describe it waz Bonkers and surreal, both music, plot, and casting!
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good stuff thomas. nice that you got to take your dad to see him.
weirdly channels swapping screening rights was quite rare back then in the 70s - presumably because they paid for a time limit or a number of screenings, dont know. But it did happen. movies that were once itv did pop up on bbc and vice versa.
i guess the channel swapping happened more so with the arrival of ch4 and then ch5, and sky altered all the maps.
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Wow. So nice that many of us share these moments! My version of 5MA is definitely the hammock one! I thought it was so cool that cover. Then it was a rather dingy green looking covered OUATITW that I got on RCA. Hard to believe now, but it took me a while to get into both the soundtrack, and later that ITV screening of this epic western. Of course, once in my head it's since become one of my top ten of all time.
Early days, but as someone said, happy ones too.
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Even after all these years this still gives me the chills........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyvzfyqYm_s
For me this is an amazing sequence. It's hard sometimes to choose between this one, the one in For A Few Dollars More, and the three way one in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Obviously OUATITW has the most emotional one, and I'll never forget the first time I saw the bit with the hanging for the first time.
However the scene that gives me chills now is where Fonda blasts the McBain kid at the end of the massacre. It didn't occur to my young mind at the time, until a guy who drove our works van said that as a father it freaked him out. And this from a man who was a member of a local gun club! And I should remind our US friends here that guns are RARE in the UK!
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reminder bump. tonight!
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