Executive Action

Executive Action is a 1973 movie about the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, written by Dalton Trumbo, Donald Freed and Mark Lane. It is one of three American films to present a dramatization portraying the JFK assassination as a conspiracy (the others being Oliver Stone's 1991 movie JFK and Neil Burger's 2002 mockumentary Interview with the Assassin). Despite many similarities of the plotline to JFK, Executive Action presents a fa... more

Executive Action is a 1973 movie about the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, written by Dalton Trumbo, Donald Freed and Mark Lane. It is one of three American films to present a dramatization portraying the JFK assassination as a conspiracy (the others being Oliver Stone's 1991 movie JFK and Neil Burger's 2002 mockumentary Interview with the Assassin). Despite many similarities of the plotline to JFK, Executive Action presents a far more direct and unemotional account of the Kennedy assassination than Stone's film. The film is done in an almost documentary style and was clearly filmed on a small budget, despite the presence of two big Hollywood names, Robert Ryan and Burt Lancaster. Another big difference to JFK is that the story is told entirely from the perspective of the conspirators. Opening scene is set in June 1963 at a gathering of shadowy industrial, political and former US intelligence figures who are giving vent to their growing dissatisfaction with the... less