Zigzag | |
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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 |
Music by | Oliver Nelson |
Cinematography | James Crabe, ASC |
Distributed by | MGM |
Release date(s) | May 1970 (USA) |
Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
ZigZag is a 1970 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 has been remade in India three times: