Hour of the Gun [Original Motion Picture Score] [Soundtrack]

Jerry Goldsmith (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 17, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B0009AJK8Y
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #251,206 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hour of the Gun - Jerry Goldsmith

2. Main Title

3. New Marshall

4. Ballot Box

5. Ambush

6. Whose Cattle

7. The Painted Desert

8. The Search

9. Doc's Message

10. A Freandly Lie

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worthy Western Film Soundtrack, November 23, 2005

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Alamo_guy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hour of the Gun [Original Motion Picture Score] (Audio CD)

Jerry Goldsmith demonstrates his great versatility once again in this very good soundtrack. He mixes traditional Western film scoring with some modern influences into the genre and the result is very pleasing. It is good to see that this soundtrack was once again made available.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Goldsmith "Guns" For It, September 11, 2007

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Erik North (San Gabriel, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hour of the Gun [Original Motion Picture Score] (Audio CD)

Although it wasn't completely accurate to the facts of the Tombstone feud between Wyatt Earp and Ike Clanton, the 1967 John Sturges-directed HOUR OF THE GUN remains a very good Western. A good deal of the credit must go to the late, great Jerry Goldsmtih, whose score here is (surprisingly) one of the rare ones he has done inside the Western.

Every bit as dark and brooding as the film itself, though there are lighter, jaunty moments of Americana, with occasional harmonica and banjo, Goldsmith's music, like any great Western score, vividly depicts the wide open spaces of the West, and gives a keen insight into the characters of Earp, Clanton, and Doc Holliday. As part of the film is set in northern Mexico, there's also the use of Mexican castanets and Latin guitar as well for some additional flavor.

Although this is a very short recording (just under 32 minutes in length), HOUR OF THE GUN is nevertheless highly recommended for fans of Western film scores in general, and for Goldsmith aficionados in particular.

4.0 out of 5 stars A fine Western score by my favorite composer Jerry Goldsmith, August 6, 2011

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Lou B. - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Hour of the Gun [Original Motion Picture Score] (Audio CD)

from 1967 makes me wonder how he might have scored TOMBSTONE (he was signed to score it but had to bow out) which is another version of the same story. But he did write a very dark and effective score for this presentation.
Goldsmith's originality is evident throughout this music, no aping the style of Aaron Copland, but instead focusing
on the dark aspects of the story and its characters. I only gave this recording four stars because I think this album could have benefited better in an expanded format with more music from the score added. This is just a straight reissue of the original album that came out at the time of the film's release. At just over thirty minutes
it only whetted my appetite for more.