HOME FROM THE HILL

Label: FSMCD Vol.6 No.3
Date: 1960
Tracks: 32
Time: 79:26

Southern family-in-strife drama with Robert Mitchum carries massive score for orchestra. Rich Americana main theme identifies outdoor setting while interior music for strings, woodwinds underscores verbiage. Mingled within are violent passages for wild boar hunt, moving themes for young lovers. Kaper's wide-arched, rock solid main theme remains one of the great movie melodies. Top drawer presentation of entire score in stereo from original elements. Exceptional liner notes, graphics complete package. In a year crowded with all-time greats (SPARTACUS, ALAMO, EXODUS, MAGNIFICENT SEVEN) this one stands equally tall. Needless to say, HOME FROM THE HILL rates a bullseye!