

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
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.