100 Rifles is a 1969 film directed by Tom Gries. The film stars Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, Jim Brown, and Fernando Lamas. 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. ... Raquel Welch (born September 5, 1940) is an American actress. ... James Nathaniel Jim Brown (born February 17, 1936) is an American professional football player and actor. ... Fernando Lamas (January 9, 1916 - October 8, 1982) was an Argentine actor and director. ...
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Set in 1912 Mexico, an Arizona lawman named Lyedecker travels to a remote village looking for Yaqui Joe (Reynolds), a half-Indian, half-white bank robber who's stolen $6,000 to buy rifles for his people who are being repressed by the government. Lyedecker isn't concerned with Yaqui Joe's cause, and all he cares about is getting the money returned to a Phoenix bank within his jurisdiction. They eventually become allies and fight for the Indians.
100Rifles: (Jerry Goldsmith) Attempting to utilize the same basic elements as The Wild Bunch, 1969's 100Rifles was a predictable failure.
The only respite in the middle of 100Rifles is "Lydecker and Sarita," a romantic variant of the title theme which, after some mariachi movements at the opening, yields a combination of instrumentation and counterpoint that will well foreshadow his later Under Fire.
The album was arranged to include the maximum amount of music from 100Rifles, and due to the varying quality of the sources, the entire score is included in mono (which was the original presentation of the film) while others have been alternately mixed into stereo.
Goldsmith fans are well aware of the composer's genius for using instruments in weird ways and in the extremes of their ranges, especially brass; 100Rifles is full of such bellicose outbursts.
This FSM release presents the 100Rifles score not once but twice: first in stereo, with all but three cues (which were lost) newly remixed at 20th Century Fox; and then in mono (complete) from the original mix made for the film.
We're confident that our CD is the definitive presentation of 100Rifles and will allow you to use the bootleg CD, if you have it, as a coaster, or perhaps to see what happens when you put a CD in the microwave.
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