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Zig Zag (1970 film)

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Zig Zag
Directed byRichard A. Colla
Screenplay byJohn T. Kelley
Story byRobert Enders
Produced byRobert Enders
Everett Freeman
StarringGeorge Kennedy
Anne Jackson
Eli Wallach
Steve Ihnat
William Marshall
CinematographyJames Crabe
Edited byFerris Webster
Music byOliver Nelson
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • April 27, 1970 (1970-04-27)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.7 million[1]

Zig Zag, also released as False Witness, is a 1970 American thriller drama film directed by Richard A. Colla[2] and starring George Kennedy. The film was remade in India as Majboor (1974).

Plot

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Paul Cameron is 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.

Cast

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Soundtrack

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Zig Zag
Soundtrack album by
Oliver Nelson
Released1970
RecordedFebruary 19 & 20 and April 3 & 16, 1970
StudioMGM Studios Scoring Stage, Culver City and Hollywood, California
GenreFilm score
LabelMGM Records
1SE-21ST
ProducerPerry Botkin Jr., Don Peake, Mike Curb
Oliver Nelson chronology
3 Shades of Blue
(1970) 		Zig Zag
(1970) 		Berlin Dialogue for Orchestra
(1970)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]

The film score was composed, arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson, and the soundtrack album was released on the MGM label.[4] 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 [sic] a series of mood and tempo shifts with the precision of a race car moving in and out of traffic".[3] The album also included two tracks with lyrics by Hal David sung by Bobby Hatfield and Roy Orbison singing the Mike Curb composition "Zigzag".

Track listing

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All compositions by Oliver Nelson escept as indicated

  1. "All You Did Was Smile" (lyrics by Hal David) – 1:41
  2. "Main Title from "Zigzag" – 2:30
  3. "Guilty, Your Honor" – 1:50
  4. "It Was You, It Was You" – 2:30
  5. "Love Theme (Bossa)" – 2:39
  6. "Earphones" – 2:03
  7. "Zigzag" (Mike Curb, Robert Enders, Guy Hemric) – 2:50
  8. "The Other Car" – 3:55
  9. "Variations of Themes" – 4:50
  10. "I Call Your Name"(lyrics by Hal David) – 2:32
  11. "End Title" – 1:05

Personnel

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Orchestra arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson except:

Tracks 1 & 10:

Track 7:

  • Arranged and conducted by Don Peak with Roy Orbison – vocals

Track 9:

Remakes

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The film has been remade in India four times:

References

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  1. ^ Warga, Wayne. (Aug 31, 1969). "Movies: Herbert Solow Strives to Leave His Mark at MGM Herbert Solow and MGM". Los Angeles Times. p. j20.
  2. ^ "Zig Zag". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
  3. ^ a b Ankeney, Jason. Zigzag Original Soundtrack – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  4. ^ Preuss, P., Callahan, M., Edwards, D., & Eyries, P. MGM Album Discography, Part 12 (Soundtrack Series) accessed February 8, 2016
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