Two Mules For Sister Sara

As to TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA. I did not think it was a lightweight incongruous western. It fit right in with Eastwood's DOLLAR films, though it's more American due to the director DON SIEGEL (INVASTION OF TH BODY SNATCHERS, DIRTY HARRY, etc.) Perhaps it's Morricone's sense of humor that doesn't allow his score to become too serious; his score seems to play off the fact that Shirley MacLaine's Sister Sara realy isn't a nun but someone of a less-than-sacred profession, and the music reflects her playfulness and ribaldness. One note: there is one cut on the CD that is not in the film. Instead of it, they could've put on the attack by the Indians, or Sara's climb to the top of the train bridge.

These two scores show Morricone's range and are a welcome addition to any Morricone collection.


Music from Heaven...   March 25, 2004
Montana DJ (MISSOULA, MT United States)
12 out of 19 found this review helpful

As one of the many people in the U.S. who engaged in a letter writing campaign to the film company, begging them to release a soundtrack recording for this movie, I can assure the previous reviewer that it wasn't available in the States when the movie was released. I can't speak for Canada, but as one of the people lucky enough to see the movie at it's New York Premier, and having seen it many times after that just to bask in the music and magnificent visuals again and again, I can tell you there was no soundtrack available when it first came out. The initial response we received to our letters was that a soundtrack wasn't planned at that time. It came out several months (nearly a year) after the initial release of the movie.

That aside, it is a dreadful shame that the entire soundtrack to Days of Heaven is not available by itself, as this recording is missing several essential pieces in the original LP soundtrack recording. The fact that this CD version hasn't been available for awhile, and used copies are nearly eighty dollars as of March 2004, tells me this soundtrack desperately needs to be re-released!

If you ever find this one at an affordable price, buy it immediately-this is gorgeous music...


Not Your Average Nun   May 28, 2006
John A Lee III (San Antonio, TX)
12 out of 17 found this review helpful

This is a bit of a hardboiled western. It is not as gritty as some of Eastwood's others such a FIST FULL OF DYNOMITE or THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY but neither does is have the beautiful production values of a John Wayne piece. It is gritty but not enough so to be ugly.

Clint Eastwood plays an American down in Mexico hired to do some demolition work in the hope of making a big score. In his travels, he comes across a nun, played by Shirley MacLaine, who is being molested by some French troops. He settles their hash for them and finds himself with the nun for an unwanted sidekick. They are both traveling in the same general direction but she is a nuisance. Part of this comes from her religiosity, part from her ineptness and part from her apparent hatred of Maximillian's troop but mostly it comes from the fact that Clint is a bit uncomfortable in finding a nun to be cute.

The nun is not all she seems. She is more capable than at first expected. She also has taken different vows than one would expect. These vows lead her to be the love interest of Clint and a good Juarista.

Its exciting, funny at times and, like all Eastwood westerns, gritty.