Bakersfield Californian, August 10 & 13, 1965
December 15, 1965
78 min.
B&W
See also the Run Home, Slow soundtrack songlist entry
Directed and produced by Tim Sullivan
Screenplay written by Don Cerveris
(Frank's high school English teacher.)
Cast:
Gary Kent (as Ritt Hagen)
Mercedes McCambridge (as Nell Hagen)
Allen Richards (as Kirby Hagen)
Linda Gaye Scott (as Julianne)
Jesse Bates
John 'Bud' Cardos
Brian Casey
Tom Cloud
Chuck Cooper
Doug Cooper
Leah Cooper
Keith Goodwin
Neysa Holveck
Jim Logan
Jeff Masters
Pat Raines
Original music: Frank Zappa
Cinematography: Lewis Guinn
Production Design: John 'Bud' Cardos
Film Editing: John Winfield
Sound mixer: Ken Carlson
Sound boom operator: Bob Dietz
Director of lighting: Stanton Fox
JOSHUA PRODUCTIONS
PRESENTS
MERCEDES McCAMBRIDGE
LINDA GAYE SCOTT
ALLAN RICHARDS
GARY KENT
IN
RUN HOME, SLOW
WITH
JIM LOGAN
BRIAN CASEY
LEAH COOPER
NEYSA HOLVECK
JEFF MASTERS
JESSE BATES
KEITH GOODWIN
BUD CARDOS
CHUCK COOPER
DOUG COOPER
TOM CLOUD
PAT RAINES
ORIGINAL STORY
& SCREENPLAY
BY
DONALD CERVERIS
ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE
COMPOSED & CONDUCTED
BY
FRANK ZAPPA
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
LEWIS GUINN
DIRECTOR OF LIGHTING
STANTON FOX
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
TIM SULLIVAN
PRODUCTION MANAGER . . . . . . BUD CARDOS
SOUND MIXER . . . KEN CARLSON
MAKE-UP . . . . BEAU WILSON
ASSISTANT EDITOR . . . JOHN WINFIELD
SCRIPT SUPERVISOR . . . . . . . PATRICIA CARDOS
SOUND BOOM OPERATOR . . . . . . . BOB DIETZ
HEAD GRIP . . . . . PAT RAINES
PROPERTY MASTER . . . . . . . . GENE POLLOCK
RAMROD . . . . . . TOM TOM CLOUD
ASSISTED BY
MEMBERS OF JOSHUA PRODUCTIONS, INC
© [...] GLEN GLENN SOUND
DIRECTED BY
TIM SULLIVAN
Bakersfield Californian, August 10 & 13, 1965
This must be the worst movie of all time. Zappa described it perfectly as a a "super cheap cowboy movie". I'm not kidding, it's a real stinkaroo. This synopsis from YCDTOSA vol 5 is prefect: "A bad ranch lady, a nymphomaniac cowgirl, and a hunchbacked handyman named Kirby who eventually ends up pooching the nympho in the barn, next to the rotting carcass of the family donkey." That's exactly what happens.
But the music is good, and there is quite a bit more of it in this film than in The World's Greatest Sinner. There are strong themes that would later evolve into the Duke of Prunes and Idiot Bastard Son. And of course the Run Home Slow theme which we'd hear on YCDTOSA vol 5, The Lost Episodes, and Mystery Disc.
RUN HOME SLOW (JFTHOI, 65) P/D Tim Sullivan, S Donald Cerveris
After their criminal father is lynched, the Hagens find a treasure but wander, starving in the desert. The hate filled leader Nell (Mercedes McCambridge at her most outrageous) says "Son Of A Bitch!, Jackass Damn fool!, Hellnation!.." Linda Gaye Scott (also in PSYCH-OUT) is the giggling idiot bride (with hair like "a mess of long yellow worms crawling out of her skull" and a "puke pink parasol") of cousin Rip (Gary Kent, who spends most of the movie laid up). Then there's the cartoonish idiot hunchback Kirby (Allen Richards) who has to kill the mule for dinner. The (very rare) theatre of the absurd western has one scene that could have been in a Bunuel film, but it's too long and often too dark to see. The selling point for many will be the fact that Frank Zappa composed and conducted the instrumental score (his first after WORLD'S GREATEST SINNER!). The fast paced theme is obviously Zappa's work (it sounds almost like a track from Uncle Meat). From Emerson Films (CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS, MANOS, THE HANDS OF FATE, MONSTROSITY..). John "Bud" Cardos was production manager and has a small role. Sullivan had been a dialog coach for DON'T KNOCK THE TWIST and KISSIN COUSINS.
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