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Executive Action (1973)

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If you think that Oliver Stone invented the "political paranoia" movie, take a glance at Executive Action sometime. Based on Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, the conspiracy theorist's bible, Executive Action perpetuates the popular urban legend that John F. Kennedy was assassinated at the behest of a right-wing cartel with military and industrial interests. The film further hypothesizes that Lee Harvey Oswald not only didn't pull the trigger, but was also set up as a disposable dupe (this notion

PG, 1 hr. 31 min.

Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Classics

Oct 23, 2007

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Corajoso para sua época, traz um roteiro incomodamente plausível (e extremamente bem pesquisado) de Dalton Trumbo e uma montagem didática e tensa.

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Borderline interesting, conspiracy-based Kennedy assassination stuff.

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This was really the first mass media piece to put out a conspiracy theory about the Kennedy Assassination. Unfortunetly it was banned and shunned almost right away. The film admits from the start that it blurs some facts and details with Dalton Trumbo's imaginative non-fiction. It's hard to believe that this came out

June 16, 2011
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A very cool "mission" film treating the JFK assassination 100% as conspiracy, sort of saying, "if this was a conspiracy, this is how it would happen." The execution is dry, unfortunately, due to the director lacking a sense of intensity in what's really a gripping and exciting storyline. But overall, for its time, a

March 20, 2008

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