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CD reissue. Zachariah is a 1971 American Western film directed by George Englund and written by Joe Massot and the four members of the comedy troupe The Firesign Theatre (Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman and Philip Proctor). The film stars John Rubinstein as Zachariah and Don Johnson as his friend Matthew as two gunfighters journeying through the American West. The film is loosely based on Hermann Hesse's novel Siddhartha, surrealistically adapted as a musical Western by Joe Massot who said his inspiration came from when he joined the Beatles in India, when they were studying Transcendental Meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in early 1968. Massot said he arrived to find only George Harrison and John Lennon there, after their bandmates had left the course early, and the two Beatles "locked into some sort of meditation duel... to see who was the stronger character".