Overview
Zig Zag, also released as False Witness, is a 1970 American thriller drama film directed by Richard A. Colla and starring George Kennedy. The film was remade in India as Majboor (1974).
Plot
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
George Kennedy as Paul Cameron
Anne Jackson as Jean Cameron
Eli Wallach as Mario Gambretti
Steve Ihnat as Herb Gates
William Marshall as Morris Bronson
Joe Maross as Lieutenant Hines
Dana Elcar as Harold Tracey
Walter Brooke as Adam Mercer
Anita O'Day as Sheila Mangan
Robert Patten as John Raymond
Soundtrack
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