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Product Description ------------------- Executive Action (DVD) What if wealthy arms manufacturers trying to involve the United States in a war plotted to assassinate the President? What if their scheme succeeded? November 22, 1963. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is while riding in a motorcade through Dallas, Texas. The accused man is himself murdered before he can be interviewed, and one by one the witnesses die prematurely. Coincidence or conspiracy? More than 40 years later, the controversy refuses to die. In this harrowing, fictional view of real events, three men (Academy Award winner Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan and Will Geer) successfully overthrow the government of the United States ... or is it fact? ]]> .com ---- As JFK-conspiracy movies go, Executive Action is distinguished by being one of the earliest and one of the best. This speculative drama draws together some of the theories floating around in 1973 and lay them out in dry, unadorned fashion. At the center of the conspiracy is a group of right-wing muckymucks who quietly plan the assassination of the president (thanks to their fears about Vietnam, civil rights, and whatever else might be handy). Burt Lancaster is the most prominent name in the cast, although the film gets much of its gravity from the weathered presence of Robert Ryan, the superb character actor who died not long after completing the project. Will Geer and John Anderson are also in on the plot. Scripted by Hollywood pro (and former blacklistee) Dalton Trumbo, the film is unrelentingly grim, but there's something about its very flatness that makes it that much eerier. Oliver Stone would take the site approach in his pinwheeling JFK, but this simple accounting is just as creepy. --Robert Horton