Executive Action
Assassination conspiracy? The possibility is frightening.
1973 | 91m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | David Miller |
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| Writer: | Dalton Trumbo, Mark Lane, Donald Freed |
| Staring: |
| Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop. | |
| Release Date: | Nov 07, 1973 |
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| Director: | David Miller |
| Writer: | Dalton Trumbo, Mark Lane, Donald Freed |
| Genres: | Thriller |
| Keywords | assassination, central intelligence agency (cia), assassin, sniper, lee harvey oswald |
| Production Companies | Wakeford / Orloff |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Burt Lancaster | Farrington |
| Robert Ryan | Foster |
| Will Geer | Ferguson |
| Gilbert Green | Paulitz |
| John Anderson | Halliday |
| Paul Carr | Gunman (Chris) - Team A |
| Colby Chester | Tim |
| Ed Lauter | Operations Chief - Team A |
| Walter Brooke | Smythe |
| John Brascia | Rifleman - Team B |
| Richard Bull | Gunman - Team A |
| Sidney Clute | Depository Clerk |
| Deanna Darrin | Stripper |
| 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 |
| James MacColl | Oswald Imposter |
| Joaquín Martínez | Art Mendoza |
| Oscar Oncidi | Jack Ruby |
| Tom Peters | Sergeant |
| Paul Sorensen | Officer Brown |
| Hunter von Leer | Rifleman - Team B |
| Sandy Ward | Policeman |
| William Watson | Technician - Leader of Team B |
| John F. Kennedy | Self (Archive Footage) |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Self (Archive Footage) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Randy Edelman | Music |
| Dalton Trumbo | Screenplay |
| Mark Lane | Story |
| Anthony Magro | Music Editor |
| Donald Freed | Story |
| Robert Steadman | Cinematography |
| Carl A. Russell | Makeup Artist |
| Sean Doyle | Camera Operator |
| David Miller | Director |
| Kirk Axtell | Production Design |
| Caron Beaver | Casting |
| Harry Caplan | Production Manager |
| Harry Woolman | Special Effects |
| Richard S. Brummer | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Vic Goss | Gaffer |
| George Grenville | Editor |
| Byrd Holland | Makeup Artist |
| Bill Brown | Title Designer |
| Ramiro Jaloma | Property Master |
| Kirk Francis | Sound |
| Bruce Bisenz | Sound |
| Jock Putnam | Sound |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Robert H. Greenberg | Associate Producer |
| Edward Lewis | Producer |
| Harry N. Blum | Associate Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 3 |
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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