Executive Action

Executive Action

1973 | 1h 31m | Crime, Thriller | TV-14

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Brief Synopsis

November 22, 1963. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is shot while riding in a motorcade through Dallas, Texas. In this harrowing, fictional view of real events, three men successfully overthrow the government of the United States...or is it fact?

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

David Miller

CAST

Burt Lancaster

Robert Ryan

Will Geer

Gilbert Green

Paul Carr

John Anderson

Lloyd Gough

Paul Carr

Colby Chester

John Anderson

Ed Lauter

PRODUCERS

Edward Lewis

WRITERS

Dalton Trumbo

Donald Freed

Mark Lane

Related Videos

02:12
Executive Action (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Lee Harvey Oswald
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Colby Chester as Tim, part of the Dallas operations team, watching film and coaching James MacColl, whos been hired to impersonate Lee Harvey Oswald, the designated fall-guy, in the JFK assassination conspiracy thriller Executive Action, 1973, with Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan.
03:40
Executive Action (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Much Of This Film Is Fiction
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Opening credits with unusual content and attribution, from the 1973 John F. Kennedy assassination drama, written by the leading conspiracy theorist Mark Lane, with Donald Freed and Dalton Trumbo, Executive Action, starring Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan and Will Geer.
03:34
Executive Action (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Labor, Negroes, Jews, Liberals
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Robert Ryan, who would die of lung cancer four months before the film was released, is the host, with fellow Hollywood liberals Will Geer, hearing the pitch, and Burt Lancaster in the background, Gilbert Green the professor, with Walter Brooke and John Anderson, opening the JFK-assassination thriller, Executive Action, 1973.
03:44
Executive Action (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Our Presidents Are Killed By Madmen
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Burt Lancaster is Farrington, presumably ex-CIA, taking the lead now in convincing Will Geer, as tycoon Ferguson, to support the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Robert Ryan, Walter Brooke and John Anderson backing him up, in the speculative thriller Executive Action, 1973.

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