La collina degli stivali

Digitmovies continues its journey in the wide field of the Spaghetti Western Soundtracks releasing for the first time on CD the complete score by Carlo Rustichelli from the 1969 classic "La collina degli stivali" aka "Boots hill" (released after the big success in 1968 of "I 4 Dell'Ave Maria" aka "Ace High") again directed by Giuseppe Colizzi and starring the dynamite duo Terence Hill and Bud Spencer. Usually Hill & Spencer always hated to use guns and in these movies the most deadly weapons were their fists against the bad guys of the town."La collina degli stivali" was more ironical and comic than its predecessor, infact being the story mostlyplaced in saloons and circus, Carlo Rustichelli's score is mostly made of ìsource music like Can-Can, Polka, Waltzs and Band music pieces as only Rustichelli could do. These delicious themes are alternated to an epic motiv for Orchestra and choir to describe the wild west (as introduced in track1), suspence cues (Tr.12 & 22) and the jazzy lounge-style theme called "Monitor Jazz" (Tr.8, 19, 25) a kind of music with a sound more appropriate for a thriller or a spy plot that however really works in this movie. The original Cinevox Album (with a pressing of 500 vinyl copies only) was issued in 1969 containing only 13 tracks, but we had the lucky chance to locate the original monoaural Session master tapes and we could add here other 15 tracks previously unreleased , all alternate film versions of the album tracks and with the particularly notable discovery of a very important archive track: "Rag Rag" (tr.14) the song sung by the saloon's girls,that is the only cue with music by Riz Ortolani and words by the same director Polizzi. We had digitally remastered the whole score,although various defects can be heard somewhere cause existing damage on the master tapes.