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{{Short description|1965 western film}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Run Home, Slow
| image          =
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| director       = Ted Brenner
| producer       = [[Eugene Frenke]]
| writer         = Don Cerveris
| starring       = [[Mercedes McCambridge]]<br>[[Linda Gaye Scott]]<br>Allen Richards<br>[[Gary Kent]]<br>Jim Logan<br>
Brian Casey<br>Leah Cooper
| music          = [[Frank Zappa]]
| cinematography = Lew Guinn
| editing        = John Winfield
| studio         =
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| released       = {{Film date|1965}}
| runtime        = 75 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         =
| gross          =
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{{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.<ref name=slavan>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = Frank Zappa | first = Barry | last = Miles| publisher = [[Atlantic Books]] | location = London | date = 2004 | isbn = 9781843540922}}</ref>
One of the themes Zappa composed became the basis for the track ''Duke of Prunes'' on [[the Mothers of Invention]]'s 1967 album ''[[Absolutely Free]]''.<ref name=slavan /> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> A live performance of the theme is included in ''[[You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5]]''.
== References ==
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[[Category:1960s English-language films]]
[[Category:1965 in American cinema]]
[[Category:American black-and-white films]]
[[Category:American Western (genre) films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Frank Zappa]]
== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0059663}}