The Big Country（1958） - MainTitle

[RImusclebear1]

 keep your hands of my "big muddy" we can agree!!!!

[cba0bsa]

 The only better than this EXCELLENT music is the movie itself. Rent it, buy it, steal it. Whatever you have to do. In my top ten Best movies ever made list.

[siaoneu]

any chance of a full movie posts here ??

[gallantrycross]

"The Big Country" is almost an Elvis musical.

[SoCalGal52]

Love this theme music. The absolute greatest theme music of any movie. If this composition doesn't describe the feeling and expanse of the American West, then I don't know what does. The Big Country is an awesome American epic.

[TheRealColeKane]

I love the grand aspect ratios of the classics! Epic!!!

[TZEITEL10]

@TheRealColeKane We had proper cinema's then,building's with character.The screens were big,the seats plush and cheaper entertainment then.

[musicalrich1]

Great, uplifting theme., Make me want o go out & exercise, LOL...

Movie was esp. good, too...

[chibanokagemaru]

Rufus Hannassey is the Western man in the good old days who is rough and savage but not despicable.

[Plexpara]

The Only Rhyme That Bites.hehe

[tomnanD3]

One of the best scores ever written for one of the best westerns ever made. I first saw it as a kid when my mother took me to the theater.

A stellar cast most of whom are no longer with us. Burl Ives was at his best and stole every scene he was in. Jean Simmons was gorgeous, as was Carol Baker playing the spoiled rich girl. And who could forget Chuck Conners in most "non-The Rifleman" role as the slimy Buck Hannasy.

BUCK HANNASY: "You wanted me Pa?"

RUFUS HANNASY: "Before you was born I did."

[TheClam88]

@tomnanD3 Yes everyone was terrific in this great movie--but I think Heston stole the movie-absolutely terrific. But I agree w/ you. One of the best westerns ever made.

[b0ssmanroy]

@TheClam88 I disagree, i think gregory peck was the best actor but heston was a superb supporting roll

[TheClam88]

@b0ssmanroy Hey _Peck was awesome in this movie--to me, much better than Clint and all the rest. 'Big Country' is my favorite western.

[VrgniaMailman]

@b0ssmanroy I agree with you that Heston was terrific in his role, but I agree with tomnanD3 (comment of last October ... today is 6-16-11) .... Burl Ives was even greater in his supporting role. And the critics agreed with us (for whatever THAT is worth .... which is zero); Burl Ives won the Academy Award ("Oscar") for Best Supporting Actor. The scene in which Rufus Hannassey (Ives) crashes Henry Terrill's (played by Charles Bickford) fancy party is truly epic. Riveting performance by Ives!

[JuanMacready]

A boring score for an overlong, stupid left-wing film.

[jslasher1]

@JuanMacready Either purchase a hearing aid, you wanker, or fly off to some planet where there is no YouTube. You are a total waste of s-p-a-c-e!!!

[jslasher1]

The best ever score for an American western film

[markedwardindc]

I love Jean Simmons in this movie -- a totally underrated actress, to be sure. And Chuck Conners is just downright creepy--both give excellent performances in this film.

[DUSTYBASS]

@markedwardindc  Yeah anybody who played for the Chicago Cubs is kind creepy..lol!!!

[djmc42]

Another of one of the Great Westerns with a great theme song. These great classic movies cannot be touched by today's movie making.

[ccrich100]

this movie reminded me of bullies, rednecks, bigots, and all those who try to intimidate others who are different from them.

[DUSTYBASS]

@ccrich100 Well, it was the West and not some post revisionist nonsense depiction like "Eldorado". It wasn't a movie about life in 2010, please get by the myopic view.

[ccrich100]

@DUSTYBASS Dustyass, bullies, rednecks, and bigots are around in every period - whether its "the West" or the East, then or now or tomorrow. My remarks has nothing to do with any particular period - it has to do with life ! Got it?

[DUSTYBASS]

@ccrich100 Hey dumb fuck.. It's the wild west, not broke back mountain. YOU GOT IT???

[ccrich100]

@DUSTYBASS Hey dumb fuck, analized pig shit - learn to fucking read - once you get what looks like your shit face out of your neighbour's anus - and can read - then you might see the fucking grass in the West...In the meantime - stop fucking your sister and molesting your neighbour's little kid...

[DUSTYBASS]

@ccrich100 JAGOFF....HAVE YOUR MOMMY'S SHOW YOU HOW TO HIT THE POST BUTTON ONCE. FUCKIN' SISSY.

[ccrich100]

@DUSTYBASS @DUSTYBASS Hey dumb fuck, analized pig shit - learn to fucking read - once you get what looks like your shit face out of your neighbour's anus - and can read - then you might see the fucking grass in the West...In the meantime - stop fucking your sister and molesting your neighbour's little kid...

[ccrich100]

Well in the end, two men end up with two women better suited to each of them. Took a big country for that sorting to materialize...

[dp6899]

I love this movie. And Gregory Peck in it too. Say anybody know the name of the

movie where he played the gunslinger

"Johnny Ringo".

[sararocs]

@dp6899

The Gunfighter (1950)

[LazlosPlane]

Wow. I forgot how extraordinary this music was. Better than I remember it and I remembered it as great stuff. Wow.

Thanks.

[VrgniaMailman]

I hate to admit it, but I was alive when this 1950s movie first came out. Terrific movie, a real western classic. Burl Ives won Best Supporting Actor for his role. Great music. Thanks for posting. Theme of the movie provides a great life lesson, how intolerance can lead otherwise good people to ruin.

[amoglo67]

Perhaps the only film I saw together with my father...but this movie teach about a real man must be, and all my father was, and I was so stupid and young to understand...Wonderful!!!!

[antmat1952]

@amoglo67

...me too :-(

[amoglo67]

@antmat1952 ...same for all places, we´re silly when youngs

[BronxBornBroad]

Great film!

[PeterFirthFan]

A Communist western.

[LazlosPlane]

Yeah. The Heston and Peck were really pink. Not to mention Charles Bickford and Chuck Conners.  Also very gay, too.

[BagmanBarney1]

It's big and majestic. It IS the American West.

[JubalCalif]

@BagmanBarney1

I second that emotion, Barney !!!

:)

[JubalCalif]

Thanks for that info about Jerome's themes for the "Lancer" TV show theme & the score for the Alan Ladd Western "The Proud Land", Noveltooner! Fascinatin' stuff! Sorry to be just now replying to your post, but I'm not able to go online as much as I'd like these days. Thanks again & hope you have a super groovy day! :)

[Bestmanme08]

Great new bio (Charlton Heston: An incredible Life: Revised Edition) at amazon!

[crazylyn357]

Unless I m very much mistaken Jerome Moross also scored Hawaii 5-0, Please corrct me if I am wrong but am fairly sure I remember his name on credits and could not believe it!

[Nualchemist]

If you are talking about the theme music of Hawaii Five-O, it was composed by Morton Stevens. But other composers may have been hired for episode music. I'm not sure if Jerome Moross was one of them.

[zarakhast]

This is a really beautiful piece of music. Rousing, heroic, nostalgic, romantic - a bit special even if you've never seen the film.

[JubalCalif]

My all time favorite movie theme! The composer (Jerome Moross) was a genius. He also composed the great theme song to the classic 60's TV Western "Wagon Train'. Such beautiful music.....I never tire of listening to it. And thank you many times over for posting it for us to enjoy! :)

[Noveltooner]

Don't forget "Lancer", the 1968-70 CBS western that sarred Andrew Duggan, James Stacey and Wayne Maunder, and the Alan Ladd film "The Proud Rebel." As the great Alfred Newman had a special affinity for religious-themed films, New York's Jerome Moross took "Go west, young man" to heart. He had an extraordinary affinity for the West and how to describle it so aptly and passionately in his music.

[daltonagre]

Good art doesn't gets older.I live in Brazil.

[sweinreich]

Several years ago I was lucky enough to find a commemorative CD copy of the score and a booklet tribute to Jerome Moross who's score from this film garnered an Academy Award nomination. This is a real collector's item. Incidentally, Burl Ives won the Academy award for Best Supporting actor. My favorite film and film score.

[Bandtrip50]

Trolls are usually from other countries.

They are jealous of what we American had.

Go USA!

The American people are great!

[ddkoda]

Very underrated film. Superb cast, story and score. A good lesson about the tragedy of violence as a result of unresolved differences.

[gthomasedwards]

A great movie, a great cast, a great director... I was six years old and got to hang out on the set with everyone... the music give me goose bumps every time I hear it...

[lisahope32]

captures the spirit of America and the west in musical form

[EmpressDR]

I am seeking the original title clip from the film, which was created by Oscar-winning titles creater Saul Bass, who also created the ones for It's a Mad, Mad,Mad,Mad, World and Around the World in 80 Days

[frightfan1]

A great,great movie.Wonderful cast.Love the score, especially the main theme

[jache77]

i just love gregory peck! good movie!

[tailendcharlie]

best opening music ever,absoloutley amazing

[Matrix5060]

Yes, argueably the best opening musical score of all time, it rivals even Ben Hur

[EmilyyKaathryn]

We're playing this in my orchestra :)

[davinata]

You know what pisses me off? These people that disable comment's for their videos. What are they afraid of? That someone, heaven forbid, might criticise them or their taste in video/music? I initially chose "another" video to watch this but comment's were disabled so I chose THIS one instead from OSTMUSICMIX. Fabulous video, fabulous music. Thanks for posting. (see what your missing out on Mr Comments Disabled).

[HeidBummer]

Yes it is v annoying. But regrettably, its because there are so many unpleasant trolls writing obscenities out there. I wanted my boy to watch one today, but some lower life form had seen fit to comment some really (and I mean really) offensive stuff which I didn't want him reading. Why do these people even bother? Why don't they just die in a cave somewhere, unmissed and unmourned by the rest of society? Anyway, you are right about this music, its some of the best Hollywood ever produced.

[davinata]

I apologise and I retract what I said.

[joes991]

brill movie much better than some of the later westerns evcellent music score

[joes991]

brill movie much better than some of the films