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| The Undefeated | | |
1. | The Undefeated | | 4:00 |
2. | Southern Charm | | 1:57 |
3. | Burning the Plantation | | 2:13 |
4. | Meet Blue Boy | | 3:17 |
5. | Foggy River | | 2:40 |
6. | River Crossing | | 3:45 |
7. | Let's Go! | | 3:02 |
8. | Happy Hour Hoedown | | 4:39 |
9. | Do You Mind? | | 1:07 |
10. | All But Jamison | | 1:31 |
11. | Bandits | | 2:51 |
12. | The Horses | | 1:17 |
13. | Suppertime | | 2:04 |
14. | New Campsite | | 1:02 |
15. | Incident in Mexico | | 9:38 |
16. | Mission Accomplished | | 1:38 |
17. | End Title | | 1:07 |
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| Hombre | | |
18. | Hombre | | 4:22 |
19. | Stagecoach | | 3:13 |
20. | Bandits | | 4:01 |
21. | John Russell | | 4:01 |
22. | Single | | 3:17 |
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| Mystery Track | | |
23. | Hombre Trailer | | 3:30 |
| | | 70:12 |
Hombre (1967)
The Undefeated (1969)
In the late 1960s, America's most popular and enduring genre went nova. This was, to say the least, a final burst of freaky creativity—good and bad—from a fading genre, bringing revisionism, surrealism, dinosaurs, and even Elvis Presley to the 'cowboy' movie. The western was undergoing radical change and experimentation, and we present two never-before-available scores from that period: Both were produced by 20th Century-Fox with top-line casts: John Wayne and Rock Hudson in The Undefeated; Paul Newman and a sturdy ensemble in Hombre.
The Undefeated is a sprawling escapist western involving Civil War factions, Mexican politics, bandits, mustangs and brawls—typical Duke fare, but with updated scope and ambitions. The score, by Hugo Montenegro, is a long, showy score steeped in tradition yet with a pop gleam in its eye; it features reams of deceptively simple yet memorable thematic material. Its terrific main theme could easily be at home in a modern-day NFL broadcast.
In contrast, Hombre is a sober portrait of human interaction and prejudice, re-teaming Newman with a filmmaker of great deliberate craft, director Martin Ritt. David Rose, who scored pop song hits with 'The Stripper' and 'Holiday for Strings' wrote a short, sparse score that we have collected into longer suite-form tracks; the music presents a meaningful and melodic echo of the story's quiet deliberations.
Together, these scores add up to over an hour of music in stereo. Along with a bonus 'mystery track', this CD stands as a tribute to two distinguished, prolific but underrepresented musicians—and a snapshot of their memorable contributions to the western's last days.
Other releases of The Undefeated (1969):