Executive Action
starring: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer, Gilbert Green, John Anderson
directed by: David Miller
directed by: David Miller
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391177470
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 11853
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 07, 1973
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Predecessor to Oliver Stone's 'JFK' this film was one of the first to present an alternative to the Warren Report version of events. Mixing narriative segments with newsreel footage, the film tells the story of a group of powerful men who plot the assasination. First they must recruit and train a shooter, then frame Lee Harvey Oswald. A must-see for history buffs and conspiracy theorists, some credit this film with re-opening the debate about Kennedy's assasination.
Amazon.com:
As JFK-conspiracy movies go, Executive Action is distinguished by being one of the earliest and one of the best. This speculative drama draws together some of the theories floating around in 1973 and lay them out in dry, unadorned fashion. At the center of the conspiracy is a group of right-wing muckymucks who quietly plan the assassination of the president (thanks to their fears about Vietnam, civil rights, and whatever else might be handy). Burt Lancaster is the most prominent name in the cast, although the film gets much of its gravity from the weathered presence of Robert Ryan, the superb character actor who died not long after completing the project. Will Geer and John Anderson are also in on the plot. Scripted by Hollywood pro (and former blacklistee) Dalton Trumbo, the film is unrelentingly grim, but there's something about its very flatness that makes it that much eerier. Oliver Stone would take the opposite approach in his pinwheeling JFK, but this simple accounting is just as creepy. --Robert Horton
Average Rating: 
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- I've Searched For Years For This MovieI saw 'Executive Action' when it first came out in 1973, and it has stuck with me all these years. ... Read More
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- "Un-leery of Conspiracy Theory"Another great Conspiracy Theory movie. This was the first big one about the Kennedy Assasination and still ... Read More
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- Facts, not fictionThis low budget film makes the plausible case that the assasination of JFK did not involve a huge government ... Read More
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- Right on the mark! Top Notch!This film is so on the mark it almost looks like one of the assassins wrote the script! In the first place, anyone ... Read More
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- Pre-Stone Age CurioThis forgotten drama depicting a conspiracy behind the assassination in Dallas covers some of the same ground as Oliver ... Read More
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