EXECUTIVE ACTION (1973) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: David Miller
Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer,
John Anderson, Ed Lauter, Dick Miller
Well-heeled, right-wing operatives engineer the assassination of JFK, setting up Lee Harvey Oswald as the fall guy. Conspiracy theories about who killed Kennedy seem likely to go on forever, but the odds of a movie like this one changing anybody's mind are not too good. Oliver Stone worked the same material to better effect in "JFK" (1991). Casting irony: Lancaster and Ryan were both staunch liberals, and Will Geer had been blacklisted. Dalton Trumbo (also blacklisted) wrote the screenplay. Ryan died not long after shooting was completed.
