Zig Zag (1970 film)
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| Directed by | Richard A. Colla |
| Produced by |
Robert Enders Everett Freeman |
| Written by |
Robert Enders (story) John T. Kelley |
| Starring |
George Kennedy Anne Jackson Eli Wallach Steve Ihnat William Marshall |
| Music by | Oliver Nelson |
| Cinematography | James Crabe, ASC |
| Distributed by | MGM |
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Release date
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May 1970 (USA) |
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Running time
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105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.7 million |
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| Soundtrack album by Oliver Nelson | ||||
| Released | 1970 | |||
| Recorded | February 19 & 20 and April 3 & 16, 1970 MGM Studios Scoring Stage, Culver City and Hollywood, CA |
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| Genre | Film score | |||
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MGM 1SE-21ST |
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| Producer | Perry Botkin, Jr., Don Peake and Mike Curb | |||
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Zig Zag, also released as False Witness, is a 1970 drama film directed by Richard A. Colla and starring George Kennedy.
Kennedy plays Paul Cameron, an insurance executive who finds out he has a brain tumor. His family will receive nothing under his current policies, but there is a huge reward for information leading to the arrest of the murderer of a businessman. Cameron frames himself for the murder in the hopes of collecting the reward money for his wife in an anonymous bank account. Cameron is found guilty and sentenced to death, but then is cured of the disease, and escapes in order to find the real killer and clear his name.
The film score was composed, arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson, and the soundtrack album was released on the MGM label.Allmusic's Jason Ankeney noted that Nelson did "a particularly strong job of evoking the grittiness of their urban setting" and said that "Recalling vintage jazz in both its atmosphere and vigor, the music navigates though a series of mood and tempo shifts with the precision of a race car moving in and out of traffic" The album also included two tracks with lyrics by Hal David sung by Bobby Hatfield and Roy Orbison singing the Mike Curb composition "Zigzag".
All compositions by Oliver Nelson escept as indicated
Orchestra arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson except:
Tracks 1 & 10:
Track 7:
Track 9:
The film has been remade in India four times:
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