Original motion picture soundtrack. Composed and conducted by Dimitri Tiomkin.

"The Big Sky" is based on a popular novel by A.B. Guthrie. Kirk Douglas and Dewey Martin play a pair of Kentucky frontiersmen who embark upon the first keelboat trip up the Missouri River way back in 1830. Joining Douglas and Martin are Martin's grizzled old uncle Arthur Hunnicutt and garrulous Frenchman Steven Geray. Running afoul of various Indian tribes, Douglas nonetheless romances Sioux princess Elizabeth Threatt (their off-screen relationship was on the kinky side, as an embarrassed Douglas reveals in his autobiography). Director Howard Hawks leavens the Boys' Own Adventure atmosphere of the film with a few isolated comic sequences, including a sidesplitting scene in which Douglas' gangrenous finger is cut off (you must see to believe). Produced for RKO Radio by Hawks' own Winchester Pictures.

1. Main Title 1:40
2. Road to Louisville 3:23
3. Jim and Boone 1:11
4. Outskirts of St. Louis 1:47
5. Buffalo Gals 1:19
6. Charlotte 1:20
7. A Keelboat in the Fog 1:43
8. Landing 1:37
9. No Turning Back 2:00
10. Boone Unmasks Teal Eye 4:28
11. Keelboat Montage 2:34
12. Campfire 4:08
13. Keelboat Disaster 2:16
14. Boone and the Indian Girl 4:10
15. Sewing Up Boone/The Boat Afire 5:27
16. Arrival at the Fur Company 1:44
17. Arrow in the Neck 1:19
18. Indian Troubles 4:36
19. Indian Attack 2:57
20. Looking For Jim 5:24
21. Sneaking Up River 1:18
22. Killing Streak/Indian Rescue 5:04
23. Indian Escort 1:09
24. Chosen for Marriage 2:44
25. Celebration 6:28
26. Bidding Farewell 4:24
27. End Title 0:56
28. The Big Sky 1:55

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