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Digitmovies republishes on CD the music by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis for the comic Western film 'Tedeum' (aka 'Father Jack-Leg').
THE SOUNDTRACK
In January 1973, RCA released a 45 rpm in Italy and France (RCA Original Cast OC 30) and (RCA Victor - 41.116) with the tracks 'Sounds and voices' and 'Wendy'. Twenty years later, in 1993, RCA released a CD with five tracks from 'Tedeum', combined with fourteen tracks from 'Mannaja'. In 2011, GDM Music released a CD (GDM 4142) with the entire OST from the film with 23 tracks. For our CD (running time 43:08 minutes) we used the stereo masters from the recording session with the same complete material as on the GDM CD. Gianfranco Plenizio conducted the pleasant music by brothers Guido & Maurizio De Angelis. 'Sounds and voices', the pop-flavoured main theme for female choir, moog and rhythms is introduced in the opening credits and repeated several times in the film (Tr.1, 7, 12, 17, 23). The legendary De Angelis brothers wrote 'Wendy', a sweet orchestral love theme (Tr.2, 15, 21). The film's protagonists, in their adventures and misadventures, are accompanied by a classic Western theme 'Square dance' (Tr.3, 6, 9, 14, 18). The main theme is reprised in country ballad style in 'For friends and enemies' (Tr.4) and rhythmic pop in 'Tedeum' (Tr.5).
DIRECTION AND CAST
directed in 1972 by Enzo G. Castellari with Jack Palance, Giancarlo Prete, Lionel Stander, Francesca Romana Coluzzi, Riccardo Garrone, Maria Vico, Eduardo Fajardo, Renzo Palmer, Mabel Karin, Rocco Lerro.
THE PLOT
Tedeum and his family have documents of ownership of a rich, non-existent mine. Mr Grant buys all the documents at an auction for a derisory price, with the intention of getting his hands on the real mine. A fake priest who, in reality, is an escaped convict with a big price on his head, enters the story of swindles and ambushes. All the characters, divided into gangs, find themselves in the pool of a public bath, but unfortunately the document of the real mine is destroyed. Finally, all the contenders find themselves in a penitentiary, at the centre of which is a shaft with the entrance to the coveted mine.
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