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Executive Action - Trailer
Cast
Burt Lancaster
Farrington
Robert Ryan
Foster
Will Geer
Ferguson
Gilbert Green
Paulitz
John Anderson
Halliday
Paul Carr
Gunman (Chris) - Team A
Ed Lauter
Operations Chief - Team A
Walter Brooke
Smythe
John Brascia
Rifleman - Team B
Richard Bull
Gunman - Team A
Sidney Clute
Depository Clerk
Lee Delano
Gunman - Team A
Lloyd Gough
McCadden
Dick Miller
Rifleman - Team B
Rutanya Alda
Assassination - Team B
Graydon Gould
TV Commentator
Rick Hurst
Used Car Salesman
Robert Karnes
Man at Rifle Range
Joaquín Martínez
Art Mendoza
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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
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