Miller's Crossing (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

The score to Miller's Crossing is written by Carter Burwell, the third of his collaborations with the Coen Brothers. Selections of the soundtrack are reflective of the American 1920s era in which the film is set, with jazz band tunes such as the "King Porter Stomp" and "Running Wild". The soundtrack also includes "Danny Boy", sung by Frank Patterson, an Irish tenor, which is played during the scene in which Albert Finney's character Leo evades and then kills his assassins with a Thompson submachine gun. Patterson can also be heard singing the Jimmy Campbell song, Goodnight Sweetheart, in the scene where Leo punches Tom down the stairs of his Shenandoah Club.