Executive Action

November. 07,1973      PG
Rating:
6.7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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

Burt Lancaster as  Farrington
Robert Ryan as  Foster
Will Geer as  Ferguson
Gilbert Green as  Paulitz
John Anderson as  Halliday
Paul Carr as  Gunman (Chris) - Team A
Colby Chester as  Tim
Ed Lauter as  Operations Chief - Team A
Walter Brooke as  Smythe
John Brascia as  Rifleman - Team B

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Reviews

Hellen
1973/11/07

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Evengyny
1973/11/08

Thanks for the memories!

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Pacionsbo
1973/11/09

Absolutely Fantastic

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Mathilde the Guild
1973/11/10

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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blanche-2
1973/11/11

It was hard back then to cut out Lee Harvey Oswald's face, paste it on a body holding a gun, and then copy it so it looked like a real photo. Made conspiracy challenging."Executive Action" from 1973 is another film that theorizes how the assassination of JFK went down - this time, it's a bunch of rogue intelligence agents, conservative politicians, greedy businessmen who were worried about President Kennedy's policies on race relations, ending the Vietnam War, and ending the oil depletion allowance. This film's conspiracy is a lot more straightforward than what was posited in JFK, and it really could have gone down this way - with fake Oswalds, three gunmen, and a lot of people getting out of Dodge as soon as it was over. Unfortunately we don't know what happened. This could be close though. Much of the film has actual footage mixed in with film footage. Although the assassination was a re- enactment, it was mixed with actual footage and is still devastating to watch.One thing I've never doubted for one minute is that Ruby was allowed to kill Oswald. Take a look at that scenario. This man supposedly just killed the President and Ruby saunters into the garage, Oswald comes up with a man at either side, walking somewhat slowly - where? Why wasn't the transport right at the door? Never could get over that."Executive Action" is handled in a very naturalistic style; the actors speak conversationally, and it makes what they're planning scarier.The most impressive part of the film is showing that 18 material witnesses to the assassination were dead by 1967. Sobering.Good film, makes you think. Depressing too.

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terrilllankford
1973/11/12

Interesting artifact from the 70s. Great to see Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan and Ed Lauter at work. But check out THE PARALLAX VIEW if you want a real juicy JFK parable. And the best of all these movies is WINTER KILLS.The filmmakers behind EXECUTIVE ACTION have the known, undisputed facts of JFK's assassination: the where and the when. By reverse engineering that info they create a conspiracy theory that is so complicated and implausible that it makes you realize that it would have been impossible to plan and execute it this way. A politically confused lone assassin with little planning makes much more sense than the scenario laid out here.But of course, that's what "THEY" want you to believe. Right?

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AaronCapenBanner
1973/11/13

David Miller directed this speculative conspiracy film dealing with the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on Nov.22,1963, which this film theorizes was a combination of government and business interests, threatened by the social change and end of the Vietnamese war they feared would lead to disaster. Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Gear, John Anderson, and Ed Lauter round out the cast of conspirators. Despite the explosive nature of this material(explored far better in later film "JFK") this film is inexplicably tame, presented in a coldly indifferent fashion most unsuited to the premise. Good cast keeps you interested, but film is ultimately a misfire.

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danzeisen
1973/11/14

To those who have studied the assassination of JFK through the years this film is very polarizing. Almost everyone has an opinion of whether or not a conspiracy was involved, and government studies have come to differing conclusions. Opinions are like navels, we all have them. It astounds me still that a movie like this with heavyweight actors such as Lancaster, and Ryan could be made ten years after the assassination. Like many alive I recall when this movie debuted in theaters and then disappeared from theaters. I never got a chance to see it then, but was told it was very "Upsetting." Having seen it at in 2011 I would use the word disturbing. The story is told in a matter of fact, low key manner, that men of power and wealth discuss and come to feel that the 35th President must die. It is very chilling to me that it is told in such a low key, almost clinical manner. There is a cabal of power brokers, lead by Geer, who is eventually convinced of, and gives the okay to the assassination. These "Superpatriots" display an arrogant, and insular skewed view of the world and imply that "They know best." Where have we seen that attitude before? Even if you don't buy the conspiracy angle, this is a great movie, well made. The hairstyles, cars folks drove and other incidentals are, in my opinion, not at all important. The message is the thing, and the thing is to think.

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