Morricone: Movie Music Maestro

Ennio Morricone is by far the most prolific movie music composer of all time and with an epic score for A Fistful of Dollars that was almost as legendary as The Man with No Name - and that was just the beginning of an extraordinary career. Morricone wrote the music for all three of the sprawling spaghetti westerns in "The Dollars Trilogy" - directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood - as well as scoring the three magnificent westerns in Leone's "Once Upon a Time" trilogy. The Wild West portrayed by Sergio Leone was a harsh, violent place without mercy, where people are shot in the back and torturers laugh out loud. It's a brutal man's world where women are oppressed and there is no possible love story for the hero. In a remote western town without pity, the sun burns down, the clothes are filthy, the men are unshaven and enemies await around every corner to deliver a bullet between the eyes.....

^ Sergio Leone's epic Once Upon a Time in the West is both my favourite western and all-time favourite Morricone music score.