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Track Listing
1. HELL IS FOR HEROES (LEONARD ROSENMAN): Main Title 1:45
2. Reese 0:54
3. Off Limits Bar 0:34
4. Belligerent Reese 0:53
5. Homer’s Disappointment 1:15
6. Back to the Line 2:29
7. The Mine Field, Part 1 4:35
8. The Mine Field, Part 2 1:20
9. Battle Shock and Reese’s Rage 0:59
10. Kennedy’s Speech / End Title 1:09
Info:Hell is for Heroes was inspired by a true story from World War II about a small squad charged with holding an indefensible position along the Siegfried Line. The impressive ensemble cast included Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn and Nick Adams, along with Bob Newhart as an out-of-his-depth private. But the star of the show was Steve McQueen as Reese, a rough outsider with a tarnished past who speaks bluntly and acts independently.
Leonard Rosenman was no stranger to war pictures, having previously scored such films as Pork Chop Hill (1959) and The Outsider (1961). Following Hell Is for Heroes, Pirosh would hire him to score the television series Combat! in much the same vein as his score for this feature. Rosenman’s sparsely spotted score makes the most of its relatively brief moments in the picture using skittering low strings and scattered piano figures to create a bleak portrait of war as a state of constant unease and agitation. The studio archived Hell Is for Heroes on three-track 35mm mag, allowing for a present-day true stereo mix.
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Do you happen to also have the second part of that 2-feature release (Jerry Fielding – Escape from Alcatraz)?
Do you happen to also have the second part of that 2-feature release (Jerry Fielding – Escape from Alcatraz)?
Hi, soundtrekker, I’ll upload it tomorrow when I’m back home.
Well, that’s really great! Looking forward to it. 🙂
Thank you so much!