Gli intoccabili

Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and EMI General Music Publishing, presents a remastered reissue of the 1968 classic, propulsive and exciting Ennio Morricone cult score for the gangster movie GLI INTOCCABILI (aka MACHINE GUN McCAIN), a successful Italian-US coproduction, directed by Giuliano Montaldo and starring John Cassavetes, Britt Ekland, Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands and Gabrielle Ferzetti. The film is about a paroled gangster and his son who plan to rob a Las Vegas gambling house, unaware that the casino is bitterly contested by the West Coast and East Coast mobs.

Ennio Morricone’s score creates an elegant and distant—almost abstract—atmosphere. “Hank McCain’s Ballad,” performed by Jackie Lynton, anchors the musical narrative. It is a melancholic, nostalgic theme that deliberately contrasts with the character’s violence. The film’s musical discourse oscillates between two opposing universes: one of elegance and artifice, and the other syncopated, dissonant, urgent. Morricone resorts to atonal structures, employing radical sound resources: metallic clusters, industrial noises, abrupt staccatos of metal or struck piano. Traditional melody disappears; instead, tension is built from texture and unconventional instrumentation. The score also includes two different and beautiful love themes.

1. La ballata di Hank McCain 2:08
2. Irene 3:35
3. Gli Intoccabili (Titoli) 1:38
4. Defilée 1:52
5. Come quando fuori piove 2:40
6. La ballata di Hank McCain (Pt. 2) 1:55
7. Come lei 4:08
8. Sogno dopo sogno 2:43
9. Senza parole 3:27
10. Rosemary 2:04
11. La ballata di Hank McCain (Pt. 3) 2:46
12. Gli Intoccabili (Las Vegas) 1:35
13. La ballata di Hank McCain (Off Vocal) 2:09
14. Gli Intoccabili (Sad Waltz) 1:54
15. Gli Intoccabili (Party Music) 3:40
16. Gli Intoccabili (Dramatic Music #1) 2:15
17. Gli Intoccabili (Music For Evening) 2:54
18. La ballata di Hank McCain (Off Vocal, Pt. 2) 1:56
19. Gli Intoccabili (Funny Waltz) 1:27
20. Gli Intoccabili (Striptease) 4:51
21. Gli Intoccabili (Dramatic Music #2) 5:16
22. Gli Intoccabili (Lounge Fox-Trot) 2:33
23. Rosemary (Alternate Version) 3:05
24. La ballata di Hank McCain (Off Vocal, Pt. 3) 2:47
25. Gli Intoccabili (Epic Waltz) 1:32
26. La ballata di Hank McCain (Single – Alternate Version) 4:26

Total Disc Time: 73:59