Run Home, Slow
{{Short description|1965 western film}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Run Home, Slow
| image = Run Home, Slow (1965).jpg
| caption =
| director = Ted Brenner
| producer = Eugene Frenke
| writer = Don Cerveris
| starring = Mercedes McCambridge
Linda Gaye Scott
Allen Richards
Gary Kent
Jim Logan
Brian Casey
Leah Cooper
| music = Frank Zappa
| cinematography = Lew Guinn
| editing = John Winfield
| studio =
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1965}}
| runtime = 75 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
{{about|the 1965 American Western film|the album by the Teskey Brothers|Run Home Slow}}
Run Home, Slow is a 1965 American Western film starring Mercedes McCambridge, Linda Gaye Scott, and Gary Kent, directed by Ted Brenner and written by Don Cerveris.
Plot
After her father is murdered by hanging, Nell Hagen (McCambridge) sets out with her brothers Ritt (Kent) and Kirby (Richards) and cousin Julie Ann (Scott) to seek revenge.
Music
Cerveris had previously taught English at Antelope Valley High School in California, where Frank Zappa had been one of his pupils. After leaving the job to move to a career in screenwriting, he and Zappa had remained in touch, and in 1959 he convinced Tim Sullivan, the producer of Run Home, Slow, to commission Zappa to compose and conduct the score for the film.{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4lNRIZm_baQC | last = Slavan | first = Neal | title = Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story of Frank Zappa | year = 2003 | publisher = Omnibus Press | location = London | isbn = 9780857120434 | page = 32}}{{cite book | title = Frank Zappa | first = Barry | last = Miles| publisher = Atlantic Books | location = London | date = 2004 | isbn = 9781843540922}}
One of the themes Zappa composed, And Very True, became the basis for the track Duke of Prunes on the Mothers of Invention's 1967 album Absolutely Free.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/necessityisearly0000jame/page/40/mode/2up|title=Necessity is...: the early years of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention|last=James|first=Billy|year=2001|publisher=SAF Publishing|location=London|isbn=9780946719518|chapter=2|page=40}} Studio performances of the film's main theme later featured in Zappa's posthumous compilation albums The Lost Episodes, as a stereo mix, and Mystery Disc, as a mono mix with an additional Zappa guitar solo.{{cite web | url = http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/lost_episodes.html | title = The Lost Episodes | website = the zappa patio | date = 22 April 2006 | access-date = 21 August 2024}} A live performance of the theme is included in You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5.
References
External links
- {{IMDb title|0059663}}
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