Jonathan 'Colorado' Corbett (Lee Van Cleef) is a gunman so brave to have eliminated all the bandits of Texas. For this he is proposed for the candidacy to the Senate of the United States. In exchange he has only to support the construction of one railway line. Only after he accepts does he come to know that the Mexican Manuel 'Cuchillo' Sánchez (Tomas Milian) has raped and killed a 12 year old girl. Corbett leaves on a long manhunt during which he gets to know his adversary better and discovers a variation on the crime for which the accused Cuchillo may not be as guilty as he first thought.
Morricone’s score is another one of his experimental, unusual compositions for the genre, which combined traditional action scoring with a number of unique and often quite bizarre sounds and arrangements. The main title cue “La Caccia,” for example. begins with what I can only describe as ‘the sounds of someone making squawking bird noises, and someone rubbing wet fingers across a window,’ but it slowly develops into a superbly adventurous main theme with a resounding trumpet chorus , relentless horse-gallop percussion, and an angelic female soprano vocal.
15 сен 2024
