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Executive Action

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Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.

Status: Released

Released Date: 1973-11-07

Runtime: 91 mins

Director: David Miller

Spoken language: English

Genres: Thriller

Original title: Executive Action

Production Companies: Wakeford / Orloff

Production Countries: United States of America

Cast

Burt Lancaster

Robert Ryan

Will Geer

Gilbert Green

John Anderson

Gunman (Chris) - Team A

Paul Carr

Tim

Colby Chester

Operations Chief - Team A

Ed Lauter

Walter Brooke

John Brascia

Richard Bull

Sidney Clute

Deanna Darrin

Lee Delano

Reviews

John Chard

Actors movie and a conspiracy theorists dream. Executive Action is directed by David Miller and written by Dalton Trumbo, Donald Freed and Mark Lane. It stars Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer, Gilbert Green and John Anderson. Music is by Randy Edelman and cinematography by Robert Steadman. In essence it’s a film that is offering up a different theory to the Warren Commission’s report that ruled Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating John F. Kennedy. Plot has Lancaster and Ryan as shady conspirators who plot the downfall of JFK on that fateful day November 22nd 1963. There’s lots of talking, with the actors chewing into the dialogue whilst brooding considerably, their motives explained clearly, the framing of Oswald brought to life, and it rounds up to a triple gunmen scenario. We then get a startling revelation about what befell a number of eyewitnesses from that infamous day. It’s engrossing without being truly riveting, but the cast make it worth time spent. While if you like to buy into the conspiracy theory surrounding the assassination, then it carries some extra entertainment value. 7/10

2014-01-21

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