Zachariah
by George Englund
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Actor: Country Joe and the Fish, Don Johnson, Elvin Jones, John Rubinstein, Patricia Quinn (II)Director: George Englund
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-24
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Zachariah
Movie Review: Just like Head
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is a hoot and is a cult classic, much in the same vein as the Monkees' Head. It's camp, it's corny, yet at the same time poignant, with some stunning cinematography. I just want to know where I can get the soundtrack. Hmmm. I have the LP. I'll have to get someone to digitise it for me.
Summary of Zachariah
Advertised in 1970 as "the first electric Western," Zachariah is an endearingly pretentious effort that prefigures such genre oddities as Jodorowsky's El Topo and Alex Cox's Straight to Hell. The story is the archetypal one about two friends who become gunslingers and must inevitably face off against each other in the finale. But it's treated here as if it meant something deeper, which means that after enjoying 75 minutes of violence we can all agree that peace and love and harmony is on the whole better for children and other living things. Curly haired farm boy Zachariah (John Rubinstein) and eternally grinning apprentice blacksmith Matthew (Don Johnson) are the fast friends who run away from home to join up with a gang of outlaws known as the Crackers (played by hippie folk-rock collective Country Joe and the Fish). These apparent 19th-century Westerners tote electric guitars and are given to staging free festival freak-outs at one end of town to distract from the bank robbery at the other. The boys soon hook up with Job Cain (Elvin Jones), an all-in-black master gunfighter who is also an ace drummer (his solo is impressive), but then drift apart as Zachariah has a liaison with Old West madam Belle Starr (Patricia Quinn) in a town that consists of fairground-style brightly painted wooden cut- out buildings (a gag reused in Blazing Saddles), then gets rid of his outrageous all-white cowboy outfit to settle down on a homestead and grow his own dope and vegetables. Matthew, of course, goes for the black-leather look after outdrawing Cain, and comes a-gunning for the only man who might be faster than he, but the hippie-era message is that once these kids have killed everyone else, they can still make peace with each other and the desert or something, man.Aside from a Beatle-haired teenage Johnson making a fool of himself by overly emoting to contrast with Rubinstein's nonperformance, the film offers a lot of beautiful "acid Western" scenery and excellent prog rock and bluegrass music from the James Gang, White Lightnin', and the New York Rock Ensemble. Comedy troupe the Firesign Theatre (huge on album in 1970) provided the script, which explains satirical touches like the horse-and-buggy salesman (Dick Van Patten) spieling like a used car dealer and the madam's claim to have had affairs with gunslingers from Billy the Kid to Marshall McLuhan. --Kim Newman
Firepower meets flower power in this outrageous western (Motion Picture Herald) about two thrill-seeking cowboys who rock the range! Starring John Rubinstein Don Johnson and Dick Van Patten and featuring legendary musicians Country Joe and the Fish and White Lightnin this psychedelic trip through the Wild West is an utterly unique film experience (Variety)! Two cowboys (Rubinstein and Johnson) set out for adventure and join up with a band of rock n roll outlaws. But as the two friends are seduced by their own quick-draw ambitions a deadly rivalry grows between them and they must struggle to find a path to peace before they lose more than their reputations and kill more than their friendship!System Requirements: Running Time 92 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. Rating: PG UPC: 027616909060 Manufacturer No: 1006757
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