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Zig Zag is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Colla released in USA on 1 may 1970 with George Kennedy

Zig Zag (1970)

Zig Zag
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Released in USA 1 may 1970
Length 1h45
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Crime
Rating60% 3.005983.005983.005983.005983.00598

Zig Zag, also released as False Witness, is a 1970 film directed by Richard A. Colla and starring George Kennedy.

Synopsis

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.

Actors

George Kennedy

(Paul R. Cameron)Anne Jackson

(Jean Cameron)Eli Wallach

(Mario Gambretti)Steve Ihnat

(Asst. Dist. Atty. Herb Gates)William Horace Marshall

(Morrie Bronson)
And :
Charlene Holt
Dana Elcar
Walter Brooke
Joan Tompkins
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