Review of Zig Zag

Zig Zag (1970)
7/10
Can you believe that anyone can act that stupidly!
8 December 2011
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** Heart thumping thriller with innocent man wanting to be convicted for a kidnap murder that he didn't commit Paul Camron, George Kennedy, getting himself convicted. That so he can have his wife Jean, Ann Jackson, and daughter, Elizabeth Colla, collect the reward money-$250,000.00- that's to be deposited in a dummy bank account in him, by putting Jean's maiden name on the account, having her,or the name on the account, turn him into the police. This hair brained plot is concocted by Camron when he found out that he had no more then six month to live in him suffering from a malignant brain tumor. An on top of all that his life insurance policy doesn't cover brain tumors!

Camron planned the whole thing out so meticulously that no one for a moment not even his attorney Mario Gambritti, Eli Wallach, realized that he was framing himself for the murder kidnapping even though he steadfastly proclaimed his innocence in the entire matter! What really screwed Camron up was after being convicted for murder-one he fell into a coma and miracle of miracle's his brain tumor was successfully operated on! Now with a new lease on life and facing either life behind bars or the San Quentin gas chamber Camron has to break out of prison and prove his innocence! Something that he did everything to disprove when he thought he didn't have that long to live!

On the run from the law and trying to prove that he in fact wasn't responsible for the kidnap murder of Pam Pacific Inc. CEO John Raymond, Robert Patten, that he in fact framed himself for Camron gets some good news from his good friend and night club owner Morris Bronson, William Marshall. Benson tells Camron that at the time the Raymond was supposedly kidnapped was at least three hours later then at first reported. That was in a kidnap ransom note sent to Pam Pacific Inc.by the person or persons who actually murdered Raymond to cover up their tracks. It was in getting a hold of the bogus ransom note that Camron fabricated his well planned out scenario in his murder of John Raymond! As things turned out one of Bronson's employees singer Muriel, Abigail Shelton, was actually shacked up in Raymond's hotel room up until 9:00 PM! That's almost three hours after he was reported, in the ransom note, to have been kidnapped!

***SPOILERS*** With Camron now being able to prove his innocence if he can get Muriel to talk he goes all out to find the person who really murdered Raymond! that takes him straight to hot and sexy Elanine Mercer, Pamala Murphy, in who's car a dark Mercedes Raymond was last seen alive! The big surprised in all this is that what lead to Raymond's murder was his womanizing not any sleazy deals that was thought to have him rubbed out! It was his fooling around and then dumping Elaine that spelled Raymond's doom! And it was Cameron who was so certain that he finally tracked down Raymond's murderer who ends up getting the surprise of his life when he found out, in him thinking it was Elaine, whom Raymond's killer really was!
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