Hellfighters

The world premiere release of the exciting Leonard Rosenman soundtrack from the 1968 John Wayne action movie directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. Hellfighters is a thrill-packed tale of oil well firefighters which actually predicted a slew of upcoming disaster movies for the next decade. Leonard Rosenman anticipates disaster-movie scoring style as well and anchors with an energetic, propulsive main theme built from dynamic low brass rhythms with a soaring French horn line playing above. In fact, rhythm becomes an important thematic element of the Hellfighters score, often carrying the day by itself. Romantic music elements for Jim Hutton and Katherine Ross play in contrast to the powerful music for the firefighting sequences. The resulting score becomes one of the best previously unreleased scores from the sixties!