![]() ![]() JFK is probably the finest Hollywood assassination/conspiracy movie ever made. Oliver Stone is also on the trail of Kennedy's assassins in this 1991 masterpiece, which received eight Oscar nominations, including for Best Picture and Director, winning in the cinematography and editing categories, as well as scoring the Golden Globe for Best Director. According to Freed, seed money was provided by antiwar activists for the low budge movie shot for $175,000, which - despite the fact that TV networks refused to advertise it - eventually earned millions. Executive Action was produced by Edward Lewis, who was also a producer for 1960's Spartacus and Costa-Gavras films, including 1982's Missing.īlacklisted actor Will Geer (1954's Salt of the Earth) co-starred as one of Executive's rightwing co-conspirators. The co-writers included attorney Mark Lane, one of the original independent investigators of the Kennedy assassination, and progressive playwright Donald Freed, who co-wrote the 1984 Nixon movie Secret Honor, directed by Robert Altman. Executive Action is also noteworthy for its left-leaning pedigree: It was co-written by ex-Communist Party member Dalton Trumbo, who'd been one of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten and co-produced by Dan Bessie, whose father, Spanish Civil War veteran Alvah, had also been a member of the Ten. ![]() The 1973 movie raises the specter of two "Oswalds," anti-Castro Cubans and ex-CIA agents as part of a shadowy conspiracy to whack the liberal leaning chief executive. Ten years after Kennedy's killing, the trailer for Executive Action proclaimed the movie to be "possibly the most controversial motion picture of our time." Indeed, Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan lead a group of conspirators in this covert action feature that boldly contradicts the Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. ![]()
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