Rating: PG
Genre: Historical Film
Release Date: 10/23/2007
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 91 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video

If you think that Oliver Stone invented the "political paranoia" movie, take a glance at Executive Action sometime. Based on Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, the conspiracy theorist's bible, Executive Action perpetuates the popular urban legend that John F. Kennedy was assassinated at the behest of a right-wing cartel with military and industrial interests. The film further hypothesizes that Lee Harvey Oswald not only didn't pull the trigger, but was also set up as a disposable dupe (this notion wasn't even new in 1973). Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan and Will Geer play the sinister conspirators. In the film's coda, still photos of 18 witnesses to the assassination are shown, while the accompanying text informs us that all of these people had died between 1963 and 1973. We are further told that the odds against this coincidence are one in a trillion. When Oliver Stone's thematically similar JFK came out in 1991, viewers with long memories were quick to notice the eerie similarities between the Stone film and Executive Action -- right down to choice of camera angles. Hmmm....a conspiracy, perhaps?

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Burt Lancaster - Farrington
Robert Ryan - Foster
Will Geer - Ferguson
Gilbert Green - Paulitz
John Anderson - Halliday
Paul Carr - Gunman Chris

Production:
David Miller - Director
Edward Lewis - Producer
Dan Bessie Gary Horwitz - Co Producer
Randy Edelman - Composer
George Grenville Irving Lerner - Editor
Dalton Trumbo - Screen Writer
Kirk Axtell - Art Director
Donald Freed - Book Author
Robert Steadman - Cinematographer
Bruce Bisenz - Sound/Sound Designer
Mark Lane - Book Author

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