| Product Summary | | Publisher: Warner | | Format: DVD | | UPC: 00085391177470 | | Buy.com Sku: 205115556 | | Item#: V2KFQY | | Category Keywords: Politics Suspense Thriller | Rating:  |
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| | | "To This Day, They Remain Somewhere Among Us...Those People Responsible for November 22, 1963!"
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, English, French, Subtitled
Predecessor to Oliver Stone's JFK this film was one of the first to present an alternative to the Warren Report version of events. Mixing narriative segments with newsreel footage, the film tells the story of a group of powerful men who plot the assasination. First they must recruit and train a shooter, then frame Lee Harvey Oswald. A must-see for history buffs and conspiracy theorists, some credit this film with re-opening the debate about Kennedy's assasination.
"...interesting, conspiracy-based Kennedy assassination stuff." Steve Crum, Video-ReviewMaster.com
Editor's Note
The subject of a secret conspiracy to assassinate JFK is the theme of this drama. This was Robert Ryan's last film.
Plot Summary
A group of men from the government, military, and industry conspire to assassinate President John F. Kennedy, out of concern that JFK might pull US forces out of Vietnam.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 10/23/2007 |
| Running Time: 91 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1973 | | Catalog ID: 117747 | | UPC: 00085391177470 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Burt Lancaster | | John Anderson | | Robert Ryan | | Will Geer | | Dalton Trumbo - Screenplay | | David Miller - Director | | Donald Freed - Based On Story By | | George Grenville - Editor | | Kirk Axtell - Art Director | | Mark Lane - Based On Story By | | Randy Edelman - Original Music By | | Robert Steadman - Cinematographer | | Steve Jaffe, et. al. - Producer |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety 9 of 10
The open lesion known as Watergate revealed a form of governmental-industrial syphilis, which in turn has made more plausible to millions the theory of an assassination conspiracy in 1963 against President John F. Kennedy. Executive Action, a part-fiction and documentary style film [from a story by Donald Freed and Mark Lane], dramatized with low key terror, is an emotional aftershock to the event...Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan and Will Geer star as informed men of industry and government service who concluded that JFK must be eliminated. Lancaster is the overall project officer. James MacColl, a remarkable look alike to Lee Harvey Oswald, depicts the alleged Oswald frameup. Oscar Oncidi plays Jack Ruby, Oswald's own assassin who, per this story, is wired into the plot.
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