Basil Poledouris
The Hunt for Red October
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Date:  1990
Length:  30:11
Format:  CD
Genre:  Soundtrack
  Category:  soundtrack
  Ref#:  0737
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Hymn to Red October (main title)    5:06
      2.  
      		 Nuclear scam    7:18
      3.  
      		 Putin's demise    0:55
      4.  
      		 Course two-five-zero    0:22
      5.  
      		 Ancestral aid    2:16
      6.  
      		 Chopper    2:53
      7.  
      		 Two wives    2:42
      8.  
      		 Red route I    3:30
      9.  
      		 Plane crash    1:50
      10.  
      		 Kaboom!!!    3:15
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      The Hunt for Red October and Crimson Tide mark the swan songs of a long-standing genre: the cold-war-theme action thriller (and its subgenre, the nuclear-submarine-threat potboiler). Given the music here, composer Basil Poledouris must have sensed the end was nigh, for he pulls no punches. Poledouris (who seemingly wrote the score to Red Dawn as a warm-up exercise) has created a full-bodied orchestral swashbuckler with a male chorus (singing in Russian, of course) to boot; a modern take on the Erich Korngold/Errol Flynn film sensibility that ably demonstrates there's still life in those traditions. --Jerry McCulley
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