The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.
Acting
John Huston devours scenery as the monstrous patriarch.
Direction
Richert's cursed production somehow produced cult gold.
Director
William Richert
Jeff Bridges
Nick Kegan
John Huston
Pa Kegan
Anthony Perkins
John Cerruti
Eli Wallach
Joe Diamond
Sterling Hayden
Z.K. Dawson
Dorothy Malone
Emma Kegan
Tomas Milian
Frank Mayo
Belinda Bauer
Yvette Malone
Ralph Meeker
Gameboy Baker
Toshirō Mifune
Keith
Richard Boone
Keifitz
David Spielberg
Miles Garner
Brad Dexter
Captain Heller One
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film's original financiers were allegedly murdered, and the movie was finished with money from a marijuana smuggler. The seventies, baby.
Based on a novel by Richard Condon, who also wrote The Manchurian Candidate—this is his even more unhinged spiritual sequel about American political rot.
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