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Zachariah (1971 film)

Zachariah
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Directed by George Englund
Produced by George Englund
Lawrence Kubik
Written by Joe Massot
Phil Austin
Peter Bergman
David Ossman
Philip Proctor
Starring John Rubinstein
Don Johnson
Patt Quinn
Dick Van Patten
Music by Jimmie Haskell
Mark Snow (song co-composer, "Grave Digger", as "Martin Fultermann")
Michael Kamen (song co-composer, "Grave Digger")
John Rubinstein ("Camino Waltz")
Cinematography Jorge Stahl Jr.
Edited by Gary Griffin
Distributed by Cinerama Releasing Corporation (1971, original) MGM (2004, DVD)
Release date
1971
Running time
93 min.
Country  United States
Language English
Budget $1,200,000
Box office $625,000

Zachariah (1971) is a Western film starring John Rubinstein as Zachariah and Don Johnson as his friend Matthew as two gunfighters journeying through the American West.

The film is loosely based on Hermann Hesse's novel Siddhartha, surrealistically adapted as a musical Western by Joe Massot and the members of The Firesign Theatre comedy troupe.

This film was billed as, "The first electric Western." It features appearances and music supplied by rock bands from the 1970s, including the James Gang and Country Joe and the Fish as "The Cracker Band." Fiddler Doug Kershaw has a musical cameo as does Elvin Jones as a gunslinging drummer named Job Cain.

Cream's drummer Ginger Baker and The Band were originally scheduled to be major players in the film.

The Minneapolis group White Lightnin' performs their rock and roll version of the William Tell Overture on the soundtrack and the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble perform Grave Digger. The soundtrack features songs by the James Gang, Joe Walsh, and Country Joe and the Fish.

The soundtrack album was released as a vinyl LP by Probe Records, a subsidiary label owned by ABC Records.


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