Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2026 January 05 • Monday

Let's start 2026 with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin. The 890th Soundtrack of the Week is Jerrold Immel's music for their movie Death Hunt.

Angie Dickinson and Carl Weathers are in it too. I bet it's pretty good!

The score is solid. "Main Title/Dog Fight" starts off with some swirling strings that would suit a horror movie, soon balanced by a heroic theme for brass and martial snare drum.

Pastoral Americana comes next in "Man's Best Friend/The Cabin", which features harmonica and flute.

The main title music is reprised and some other suspense/horror moods added for "Millen's Posse/Shoot Low", with the horror feel continued in "Thawing Out/Dynamite/He's Gone".

The first half of "Would It Make Any Difference/In Pursuit" returns to the harmonica-led Americana territory before veering off again into tense action/terror music.

A pensive sound that also suggests the wide-open spaces of the western is the main ingredient of "Millen and Johnson Spot Each Other" and then it's back to unsettling, sharp, dangerous sonorities for "Hazel and Alvin Fight/Running with the Caribou".

More aggravated, often dissonant sustained tones, jagged staccato phrases and ominour low swells keep everything on edge for "Aerial Pursuit" and then things settle down a bit for the tense but lower key "Another Hard Choice/Across the Ice Peaks" and "One Last Chance/Now You're in Charge".

The "End Credits from Death Hunt" reprise the hopeful Americana theme, and then there are four pieces of source music, three of them fiddle and piano music with the fourth, a rendition of "My Darling Clementine" played on accordion or similar instrument.

Fans of John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith are likely to enjoy this one.