Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.
Direction
David Miller's cold, procedural approach makes it feel like documentary.
Acting
Lancaster and Ryan's final on-screen pairing, both legends near career's end.
Editing
Actual Zapruder footage integration still shocking decades later.
Director
David Miller
Burt Lancaster
Farrington
Robert Ryan
Foster
Will Geer
Ferguson
Gilbert Green
Paulitz
John Anderson
Halliday
Paul Carr
Gunman (Chris) - Team A
Colby Chester
Tim
Ed Lauter
Operations Chief - Team A
Walter Brooke
Smythe
John Brascia
Rifleman - Team B
Richard Bull
Gunman - Team A
Sidney Clute
Depository Clerk
Lee Delano
Gunman - Team A
Lloyd Gough
McCadden
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released just ten years after Dallas, this was Hollywood's first mainstream JFK conspiracy film—made while witnesses were still alive to be angry.
Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was blacklisted; this film about hidden government crimes was his comeback. The irony was not lost on him.
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