Executive Action

Watch: Executive Action

11/7/19731h 31m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Assassination conspiracy? The possibility is frightening. ~

Overview:

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

Director:

David Miller

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

sniper
assassin
central intelligence agency (cia)
assassination
lee harvey oswald

Cast

Burt Lancaster

~ as ~

Farrington

Robert Ryan

~ as ~

Foster

Will Geer

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Ferguson

Gilbert Green

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Paulitz

John Anderson

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Halliday

Paul Carr

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Gunman (Chris) - Team A

Colby Chester

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Tim

Ed Lauter

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Operations Chief - Team A

Walter Brooke

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Smythe

John Brascia

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Rifleman - Team B

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Reviews (1)

John Chard
Written 11 year(s) ago
6.5
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