Executive Action (1973)

I've Searched For Years For This Movie

I saw 'Executive Action' when it first came out in 1973, and it has stuck with me all these years. It was gone from the theaters pretty fast, and I thought maybe it was "pulled" because of the truth it revealed. So when I stumbled upon it at Amazon, I almost jumped out of my chair.
The part that really stayed with me is at the end when words scroll up listing the odds put out by Lloyd's of London. It's like a trillion to one that all the real people involved in the murder of JFK would meet untimely deaths. It's shocking and something you have to see for yourself.
EA was lost, but now it's found!! Thank you, Amazon. I just purchased it and it will go into my JFK collection..safe and sound.

Diane Marek November 16, 2008

"Un-leery of Conspiracy Theory"

Another great Conspiracy Theory movie. This was the first big one about the Kennedy Assasination and still one of the best. It is based on the major "what ifs" surrounding this event. Newsreels are inserted tastefully and eerily. Great Acting by Burt and Robert Ryan. A very absorbing movie. October 27, 2008

Facts, not fiction

This low budget film makes the plausible case that the assasination of JFK did not involve a huge government conspiracy or mafia involvement. It shows how just a handful of powerful people using "Black Operatives" could have pulled it off. The framing of Lee Harvey Oswald is also quite convincing. The one flaw in the movie is when the right wing power brokers say they can't find any evidence of JFK's sexual activities. That proves how well covered up his sexual trists were by the media at the time and well into the 1970s. This movie is well worth a look and using the most basic of facts makes a stunning case for conspiracy. August 25, 2008

Right on the mark! Top Notch!

This film is so on the mark it almost looks like one of the assassins wrote the script! In the first place, anyone who believes the Warren Commission is an idiot! Lee Harvey Oswald couldn't hit the floor with his hat, much less cock a bolt-actiob rifle 3 times in six seconds and score 2 hit out of 3-Few if any military snipers could. This film takes a theory and almost makes it fact, it's that good. Virtually every scene is plausible, the basic theory is sound, and as most conspiracy theorists agree, EXECUTIVE ACTION, behind JFK, is the BEST movie ever made on this subject. July 28, 2008

Pre-Stone Age Curio

This forgotten drama depicting a conspiracy behind the assassination in Dallas covers some of the same ground as Oliver Stone's J.F.K, but seems to have elicited none of the hysterical controversy, perhaps as it was released to a jaded post-Watergate audience. We see the famed image of Oswald with his rile being created in a sequence that definitely foreshadows one of the best parts of Stone's film. There are also similar scenes of Oswald being set up around Dallas as a patsy. (Stone may have learned what to avoid when studying this picture as well. His theories about Oswald work better when our frame of reference is an actor in the role. Here we see so much footage of the real Oswald it's easy to buy him as a lone nut.) Unfortunately, much of the rest of this picture is taken up with target practice and about a full third is the main characters watching images of the President on T.V.

What's most remarkable though is the completely un-ironic manner in which the right-wing conspirators are played. They could be the local Chamber of Commerce or the leads on a network lawyer show from the 70s. There's nothing menacing about them and they're allowed no pat commentary or agonizing about what they're doing. In fact, when Robert Ryan discusses his racist theories he sounds like he could be amiably plugging a book on Fox News. (Stone would never withhold judgement like that. Similar characters are portayed as so evil they give even Nixon the creeps in Nixon.)

The lone extra is a documentary around the time of the film's making where the filmmakers discuss what they're doing in kind of lofty terms. (This is punctuated by bracing insights from Ryan.) June 28, 2008

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