Jerome Moross - THE BIG COUNTRY (1958) The Concert Suite.

[@Philippians449]

Perhaps my all-time favorite movie score!

[@jondeere5638]

When of the best movies ever made, western or not. One of the best casts of the day ever assembled. Acting is superb. The antagonists were caste in the mold of individualism, both good and bad, reminiscent of the characters of Ayn Rand.

[@daxashah1506]

One if the finest soundtrack of fifties,Jerome Morros is excellent n impressive.Great film to watch.

[@jondoe8889]

One of the great movies. And don't forget Ramon. He and Jean Simmons were the soul of the movie. And don't forget - it was Alfonso Bedoya who also immortalized the line "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"

[@scottmiller6495]

Alfonso Bedoya looked terrible here as he was dying when filming this movie and unfortunately died soon after it's release!

[@skunkygrogan6956]

Perhaps the greatest western ever-along with The Searchers😮🙂

[@diane4537]

Jerome Moross---what talent you had! You were able to capture the old West in one great song!

[@scottmiller6495]

He was robbed by the academy for his music score, it,s hard to believe. What could they be thinking, it was a horrible oversite, Period !!!!!

[@josephvitielo1693]

Liked Tiomkin but Moross should of won for The Big Country

[@lindaljune23]

All from a Jewish man from Brooklyn! He was a great talent!

[@diane4537]

@@lindaljune23 He sure was amazing!

[@davidgraham4975]

I have seen this movie so many times, when i was just about 5 maybe 6 was the first time, and now I am 37 and own it on VHS, DVD and blue ray,, I also have the soundtrack, and watch it every time it comes on TV too. In case you all are wondering, it's my favorite movie.

[@scottmiller6495]

One of mine too, it,s the Best Western Motion Picture of All time!!!!!

[@dakotalew2362]

One of the best movie scores ever composed. Great actors, great story and fantastic music. I only saw this movie for the first time 4 years ago on TCM. I was too young to see it when it first came out and never heard about it until I was in my fifties.

[@scottmiller6495]

Superb Film in every way nothing like this ever again Period !!!!!

[@jondoe8889]

One of my favorite movies! I don't think I saw it in the theater? I must have stumbled upon it on TV. I watched it again last week, maybe for the 10th time? It's not just Jerome hitting all the right notes!

[@scottmiller6495]

Again I must say, The Big Country is one of the greatest Motion Pictures ever made and should have won Best Picture of 1958, along with many other awards especially to Jerome Moross who,s music and soundtrack to this film is beyond great! Thank God they gave an oscar to Burl Ives who,s performance was incredible especially his entrance in the movie at the party and the speech he gives, it,s never been equalled by anyone since! Anyone new to this incredible film or who has never seen it, I urge you to sit and watch this epic movie that has everything! The Actors are top notch, the Scenery and Landscape and the incredible Music plus anything I forgot to mention, you will not be disappointed, No Possible Way !!!!!!!!!!!

[@maryexstroughtonaire4244]

The music is fabulous! You can feel the epic of the movie!

[@skunkygrogan6956]

GREATEST movie, all time? Not with The Godfather out there...

[@scottmiller6495]

@@skunkygrogan6956 Correction, The Greatest Western Film of All Time, and it still is !!!!!

[@skunkygrogan6956]

@@scottmiller6495 ever hear of The Magnificent Seven?

[@scottmiller6495]

@@skunkygrogan6956 Yep it's a fabulous film but I think The Big Country is better in a lot of ways, robbed at the oscars should have won Best Picture of 1958 instead of that overrated Gigi!!!!!

[@Autostade67]

Though I adore Elmer Bernstein - warm, humane, Elmer - who to to the last gave us such rich tenderness with his final score for 'Far from Heaven' and whose 'Mockingbird' remains one of the greatest yet composed, I feel that Moross' 'Big Country' easily stands beside 'The Magnificent Seven' as the greatest Western score composed...it's so hard to choose between the two.

[@dennismccallister3994]

This has to be the best rendition of the song, it moves, the horns bite at the right time, and it travels at a speed, I've heard others trying to drag it along and add to it to make there own....Doesn't work.

[@perlaolvera6749]

No es una canción, es una melodía

[@derryk1]

Was watching this last night haven't seen it in a few years...love it. It doesn't get any BIGGER than this the wide aspect ratio 2.35:1 enhanced with those excellent wide angles I guessing 8mm to 14mm Anamorphic lenses for wide shots. All of this coupled with this spectacular BIG soundtrack makes for a most perfect western. Boy they don't make em like this anymore....that's a real shame.

[@josephcavaliere9772]

Can't imagine a sea captain who knows about the oceans and takes on the big country. Great movie and performances by the cast. Beautiful sound track and burle ives winning a Oscar

[@jimkrisvoy3762]

It was filmed in Technirama.

[@scottmiller6495]

Agreed 100 percent! It,s beyond great and should have been awarded in every detail, Period !!!!!

[@scottmiller6495]

Tremendous soundtrack to this fantastic motion picture with a superb powerful ending !!!!!

[@bv74353]

I don't get it. Why are the orchestras, musicians, and conductors of this music NEVER credited - here or elsewhere? It is sooooo lame to read endless comments on how "wonderful and iconic" the music is but with ZERO interest in those who actually performed it.

[@kenneth7826]

A great movie....saw it in 1958 at the Wakefield theatre in the Bronx...great acting......

[@scottmiller6495]

This is the greatest Western Motion picture of all time Period and should have won best picture of 1958 instead of that awful overrated Gigi!!!!!

[@kenneth7826]

​@@scottmiller6495scott...I agree with you

[@robertfurman759]

This music is great.

[@juansanchezrovira7816]

Uno de los mejores westerns de la historia. Reparto inmejorable, música magnífica, escena icònica (Burl Ives en la fiesta) Wyler en plena forma.

[@509dinosaur]

Este tema fue reproducido y adaptado con varios cambios por el mismo Moross para la película con dinosaurios El Valle De Gwangi de 1977

[@malcolmcook7007]

Another one of Mr. Heston's Legendary Films. He again was the real starcast Star in 🎥 Film!

[@rorkesdrift42]

This soundtrack alone should give Moross a place among the great composers. Thank you for uploading. I'm waiting and hoping that this will include "The Welcoming," And it does!!! Just started.

[@ronaldsilverblatt6207]

rorkesdrift42 is

[@KirkNabors]

OMG, Yes!! "The Welcoming"!!!

[@scottmiller6495]

He was robbed in 1959 for the academy award for best film score of 1958! One of the greatest overlooked achievements by any composer in history, what a horrible shame !!!!!

[@rjmcallister1888]

The movie was released on Blu-Ray a few years back; Fox worked with what remains of MGM/UA to get it fixed up and back out there.

[@johnnyangel9163]

At 9:00 This is the movie!The men following who Steve or the Major?You bet it was Steve!

[@choreobantic]

This is meant for Scott Miller, who seems to be objecting to something I said in a prior comment. I can’t find what I said, but I’ll say right here that anybody who loves the Big Country is OK by me. I saw it in the theater when I was a teenager in 1958, and just the title sequence had me captured forever. The movie is slow paced, however, and I remember being disappointed, at that time, that there were no impactful close-ups in the fist fight out on the Prairie, which of course was the point of the scene! The movie is profound in its themes, which it approaches in a way that fools you at the beginning. It’s a wonderful script, and the sequence where the major rides alone into Blanco Canyon is on a par with the greatest ballets every staged in its matching of music to action. To boot, I remember practically jumping out of my seat on hearing the music to ”The welcoming” sequence. All the performances are spot on, including that of Alfonso Bedoya, who makes a very small part iconic. There are a lot of great westerns, but this one is truly unique, and I will never tire of re-watching it.

[@scottmiller6495]

Thank you for this retort! Many people now regard The Big Country the Greatest Filmed Western Motion Picture Of All Time !It should have won Best Picture of 1958 plus atleast 3 other Academy Awards ! Thank goodness Burl Ives got the award for Best Supporting Actor, he stole the film! The entrance in the middle of the movie at the party and that ranting speech he gave to Charles Bickford is Historic and never been equalled, what a movie and that music of Jerome Moross, what can I say, Unbelievable !!!!!!!!!

[@ottorinobonazzi2440]

Favoloso

[@fanfaremusic]

@JubalCalif Thank You. My pleasure, but the magic is from the great Jerome Moross..

[@WizenedVariations1]

The greatest Western of all time- sorry "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" "High Noon" "The Shootist" ……… And without a GUN!

[@josephvitielo1693]

Shane Red River The Searchers

[@HFritzson]

MAGNIFICENT!!!! I love the bombast. It gives the film such a sendoff. That's is the problem, of course. How do follow this up?

[@sageone5344]

What orchestra and conductor recorded this suite ? I agree with another commenter that this sort of information should be important to include in music postings on KZbin and elsewhere. Interesting that the tempos of the opening movement and the end movement are much faster than in the film itself; I read somewhere in comments in this or one of the other Big Country soundtrack recordings on KZbin that the composer intended a faster tempo than what was used in the film. On a final note, we had the original soundtrack album when I was a child; I grew up with it. My father played oboe on the film's soundtrack. This is definitely one of the best film scores of all time, and it's a favorite film of mine too.

[@kenneth7826]

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!!!!

[@belianis]

Who painted the poster?

[@Tatortot318]

If you listen to the Movie The Proud Rebel, he did that movie the same year as Big Country

[@volynvolyne4194]

I have never seen this movie, but main theme in the beginning is so well known, I said first time, it must be western movie, somebody is coming home or something..... massacre !!!

[@carolgriffith5386]

+volyn volyne Yep, it's a Western -- the grand-daddy of all Westerns! Ship's captain Gregory Peck is coming west to marry the woman he met in the East, Carroll Baker. The first theme is the Main Title, which shows his stagecoach going cross-country. The next theme is "The Welcoming" in which some of the local cowboys "welcome" Peck with stunt horse riding, as he and Baker proceed by buggy to her father's ranch. If you haven't seen this movie, I'd say it definitely constitutes "must see" cinema! Powerful story, powerful acting, and shot in CinemaScope by William Wyler!

[@volynvolyne4194]

+Carol Griffith well then i have to prepare my family for movie night soon

[@josephcavaliere9772]

C the movie and the music will blow u away, great performance by all the actors.

[@choreobantic]

This movie is scored so beautifully it's like getting what you dream of in an opera or ballet. Images to absolutely incredible sounds. Vastly underappreciated.

[@scottmiller6495]

@@choreobantic Did you read my comments at the beginning, Ill say it again its the best western film of all time, and should have won Best Picture of 1958 instead of Gigi ! Plus atleast 4 more oscars including one for Jerome Moross whos musical score is the best there ever was in cinema history !!!!!

[@VicknairD]

In the movie Burl Ives carries right handed. So does Chuck Connors. 🙄

[@davidgaul572]

Tempo is too fast.

[@josephvitielo1693]

Original Score was perfect

[@davidgaul572]

@@josephvitielo1693 Absolutely correct.

[@joeenglert]

william wyler may have been a great director but he didn't know crap about music as he did not want this to be the music for the big country

[@josephvitielo1693]

Good thing movie was better with score!!