Zachariah
by George Englund
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Actor: Country Joe and the Fish, Don Johnson, Elvin Jones, John Rubinstein, Patricia QuinnDirector: George Englund
Brand: TCFHE/MGM
Producer: George Englund
Writer: David Ossman
Writer: Hermann Hesse
Writer: Joe Massot
Writer: Peter Bergman
Writer: Phil Proctor
Writer: Philip Austin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-24
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Zachariah
Movie Review: WTF!
Summary: 5 Stars
Anyone who thinks CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC, STAYING ALIVE and ZERO PATIENCE are the last word in homoerotic musicals is just a Bad Movie buff who has not seen the 1971 epic ZACHARIAH. Hollywood fired up this fat doobie of a rock-and-roll Western by hinting to the press that George Harrison would compose the score and "a younger Jack Nicholson" would star. When all that bogus smoke cleared, what emerged was a veritable stoner's crash pad of a movie that wobbles woozily from one hoot to another.
Set in a fever-delirious Old West that we suspect was dreamed up on way too much acid, Zachariah opens with lithe Jewish cowboy John Rubinstein galloping across the desert towards a mysterious, giant, 2001-esque slab. On closer inspection, the slab turns out to be a huge speaker for a rock group that just happens to be loitering about, ready to play the psychedelic opening number. The appropriate atmosphere now having been established, our hero Rubinstein soon opens a mail-order parcel containing his new gun, which he practices yanking again and again from his trousers before rushing to show it off to androgynously pretty local blacksmith Don Johnson, at whom he makes goo-goo eyes and cracks feeble jokes. After Rubinstein has let this fellow buckaroo fondle his shiny new pistol, Johnson bats his long lashes, whispers "Far out," and the guys chase each other around in a Love Story-style montage. Later, Rubinstein queries philosophically, "Which do you think it would be easier to shoot it out with, the sun or the moon?" Rubinstein answers his own koan all by himself. It's the moon, of course, because, "It's old and it's dead." Unlike, say, Hollywood.
The two boys ride off in tandem and join up with the outlaw gang the Crackers (played with mind-bending self-satisfaction by the rock group Country Joe and the Fish), who alternate stickups staged to the "William Tell Overture" with rock numbers dealing with such topics as what one might want from the cowboy life ("I want to wash in a bathtub of gold... I want 97 kilos already rolled").
Rubinstein earns a rep as a gunslinger, impressing reigning gunfighter Elvin Jones, who, after indulging in what feels like a 20-minute drum solo, is challenged by the newcomer to a quick-draw contest. All this competition makes our lads restless, however. When Rubinstein proposes that he and Johnson strike out on their own, he goes too far for even the most accommodating cowpoke: he tells Johnson, "I love you." This prompts Johnson to utter aloud the words that everybody's got to hear sometime: "You and me are not on the same trip."
When Johnson splits, Rubinstein decides to investigate sex with a woman. Enter Pat Quinn, for whom Rubinstein gets bathed by hippie hookers to the strains of sitar music and decks himself out in rhinestone cowboy drag fit for Liberace. Quinn responds with a bizarre go-go dance and beds Rubinstein, aping Mae West as she declares, "Tom Mix, Ken Maynard, Lash LaRue, Bat Masterson--you're better than all of them!" Alas, Rubinstein doesn't feel the same way; he hightails it out of town to shack up with older man William Challee. When this duo isn't dancing together in the desert, the old codger is wowing Rubinstein with words of wisdom like "Hurry up and die, hurry up and die" -- which, of course, is what the film is doing.Back into Rubinstein's life struts Johnson, now sporting an earring with his rough-trade black outfit, and boasting, "I've got it together. I don't know if I'm the same, but I'm where I want to be and I'm on my way up!" He then announces that he, too, is through with women, whereupon he says to Rubinstein, "Strap on your gun."
When Rubinstein responds prissily that he has renounced violence, Johnson throws a hair-pulling, scenery-chewing hissy fit during which he blurts, "Zachariah, come back. I can't do it alone!" How will it all end, you ask? We don't want to spoil the finale for you, but if you've guessed that the lads hug meaningfully while riding side-by-side atop their matching steeds and then gallop off into the sunset, well, you're quick on the draw.
Summary of Zachariah
Synopsis: 0Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: PG
Street Date: 08/24/04
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve Please note: This supplier will be closed on 11/24, 11/25, 12/26, 1/2 for the holidays. The shipping cut off is 12/10 to try and have the products delivered by Christmas.
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