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The Missouri Breaks [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

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  • Artist: John Williams
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 1999, 2004
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 030206658729
  • Item Number: UNI665872
  • Release date: 08/31/2004
  • 1. The Missouri Breaks (Main Title)
  • 2. Arrival of the Rustlers
  • 3. Love Theme from the Missouri Breaks
  • 4. The Train Robbery
  • 5. Bizarre Wake
  • 6. Celebration
  • 7. Confrontation
  • 8. Love Theme (Reprise)
  • 9. Crossing the Missouri
  • 10. The Chase
  • 11. Remembrances
  • 12. The Horse Rustlers
  • 13. Love Theme (End Title)
  • 14. Main Titles [Film Version][Bonus Track]
  • 15. Train Robbery [Film Version][Bonus Track]
  • 16. Jane and Logan [Film Version][Bonus Track]
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The Missouri Breaks [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] by John Williams on CD


Sandwiched between John Williams' career-defining scores for the blockbusters Jaws and Star Wars sits his work on The Missouri Breaks, an eccentric and flawed 1976 Western starring Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson. While eschewing the grandiose string arrangements and heroic sweep of the composer's best-known efforts, it's nevertheless one of Williams' most delightful and ambitious scores, applying traditional Western instrumentation like guitar, banjo, and harmonica to melodies rooted in contemporary pop and jazz. It's an approach as idiosyncratic as the film itself (and if anything only compounds the narrative's disjointedness), but taken on its own terms The Missouri Breaks is a rare exercise in subtlety and restraint from Williams' most bombastic period as well as a potent reminder of his remarkable versatility. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
  • Artist: John Williams
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 1999, 2004
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 030206658729
  • Item Number: UNI665872
  • Release date: 08/31/2004
  • Label: Rykodisc, Varese Sarabande, Varèse Sarabande
  • Genre: Film Music, Soundtrack
  • Style: Original Score, Soundtracks
  • Album Time: 35:12
  • Album Type: Soundtrack

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Editorial Reviews

With a script by Thomas McGuane, the volatile presence of both Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson, and director Arthur Penn's penchant for breaking genre conventions and mixing moods, The Missouri Breaks veers from quiet poignancy to broad comedy to frontier action, and finally to abruptly shocking violence, in a story that poses the outlaw as the only viable hero. Even the outlaw cannot keep living as an outlaw, however; with its sense of an ending era and the need to move on, The Missouri Breaks matched the sentiment of a cluster of 1976 Westerns, including The Shootist and The Outlaw Josey Wales. Shot on location in Montana, The Missouri Breaks was meant to be a major prestige production with the trio of Brando, Nicholson, and Penn, but the public and critics did not care for Penn's last revision of the Western. Despite the charismatic star match-up, it bombed, and Penn did not make another film for five years. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide