The Morricone Collection: “Death Rides A Horse” (1967)

When you’ve waited fifteen years to kill a man… It’s a shame you can only kill him once!”

-Tagline for “Death Rides A Horse.”

From the album cover sticker on Dagored’s excellent 2017 re-issue of Morricone’s score to Giulio Petroni’s 1967 Spaghetti Western, “Death Rides A Horse“:

“The soundtrack for this epic western movie featuring the great Lee Van Cleef bears the signature of Ennio Morricone: Guitars, flute, piano, timpani, drums and a Native-American choir style make this motion picture a kind of original masterpiece in the maestro ouvre. I Cantori Moderni di Alessandro Alessandroni perform here in their own unique way with Alessandro Alessandroni on evidence with his original whistling.

The main musical theme was employed by Quentin Tarantino in ‘Kill Bill vol. 1′ and in Inglorious Basterds!'”

Links:

Listen to the complete score here:

Watch the complete film for free here:

If you are in the Toronto area, say hi to my Filmography podcast co-host, Bjorn, and order the film from Bay Street Video.

Outside of Toronto, you can find “Death Rides A Horse” on blu-ray at Amazon here:

Read Roger Ebert’s one-star review of “Death Rides A Horse” here: