Executive Action

Executive Action

Director: David Miller Cast: Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster
, Will Geer
Will Geer
, Robert Ryan
Robert Ryan
, Gilbert Green
Gilbert Green
, John Anderson
John Anderson
Executive Action

Executive Action

Director: David Miller Cast: Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster
, Will Geer
Will Geer
, Robert Ryan
Robert Ryan
, Gilbert Green
Gilbert Green
, John Anderson
John Anderson

DVD (Wide Screen / Subtitled)

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Overview

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?

Product Details

Release Date: 10/23/2007
UPC: 0085391177470
Original Release: 1973
Rating: PG
Source: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
Language: English
Time: 1:31:00
Sales rank: 20,974

Special Features

Vintage featurette November 22, 1963: In Search of an Answer; Burt Lancast trailer gallery

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Burt Lancaster Farrington
Will Geer Ferguson
Robert Ryan Foster
Gilbert Green Paulitz
John Anderson Halliday
Paul Carr Gunman
Colby Chester Tim
Walter Brooke Smythe
Ed Lauter Chief
Sidney Clute Depository Clerk
Deanna Darrin Stripper
Lloyd Gough McCadden
Richard Hurst Used Car Salesman,Used Car Salesman
Robert Karnes Man at Rifle Range
James MacColl Oswald Imposter
Joaquin Martinez Art Mendoza
Dick Miller Riflemen Team B
Hunter von Leer Riflemen Team B
John Brascia Riflemen Team B
Oscar Orcini Jack Ruby
Tom Peters Sergeant
Sandy Ward Policeman
William Watson Technician Team B
Richard Bull Gunmen Team A
Lee Delano Gunmen Team A
Edward Kemmer Reporter,Actor
Paul Sorensen Officer Brown
Randy Edelman Composer

Technical Credits
Edward Lewis Producer
Lea Stalmaster Casting,Casting
Dalton Trumbo Screenwriter
Bruce Bisenz Sound/Sound Designer
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