Ehi Amigo… Sei Morto!

Ehi Amigo… Sei Morto!

Carlo Savina was an established name within film music circles long before the Italian western came into being. It was Savina who conducted the first BEN-HUR LP re-recording for the great Miklos Rozsa in Rome. But Savina was not just a Musical Director, he was a composer in his own right and composed numerous scores for Italian cinema and came up with interesting and original soundtracks within numerous film genres. Savina also conducted for a number of Italian composers – Nino Rota to name one – and it was Savina who took up the baton to direct the orchestra on Rota’s THE GODFATHER soundtrack. But it is Savina as a composer I am here to review, or at least this particular foray into the world of the Italian produced western by Savina. Originally released in 1971, EHI AMIGO…SEI MORTO! or HEY AMIGO REST IN PEACE was a fairly low key western which starred Wayde Preston.