Stars: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer
This is one bizarre movie. Y'see, What-if, and I'm not saying its true, *wink*wink*, JFK was killed by a bunch of Texas Oil men and the CIA? I mean, what-if they had to kill JFK because he was going to get us out of Vietnam and lead a "Black Revolution"?
If there's any doubt Burt Lancaster was a lefty this should put them to rest. Written by Communist Dalton Trumbo and based on a book by former Communist Mark Lane, this movie tries to pin the JFK assassination on those terrible right-wingers. The fact that Oswald was A COMMUNIST who shot JFK because of his attacks on Castro, is swept under the rug.
Simply as a movie, its a freakin' bore - unless you're a Kennedy Assassination obsessive. And any assassination nut should watch Oliver Stone's JFK instead. Its just as phony, but its well made.
Summary: Lancaster declared Rope of Sand his worst movie, but Burt was letting his politics overrule his artistic sensibility. Executive Action is the worst. Its a bad TV-docudrama.
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