What is Executive Action / The Parallax View about?

Name: Executive Action / The Parallax View
Genre: Drama,Suspense/Thriller

EXECUTIVE ACTION, 1973, Warner Bros., 91 min. Dir. David Miller. Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan are two rich Texas men on a commission of right-wing corporate honchos who are revealed to be the real force behind the JFK assassination. Alarmed at civil rights progress, Kennedy’s commitment to the nuclear test-ban treaty and his wavering on Viet-Nam, they plot the president’s demise with a coldly detached precision. THE PARALLAX VIEW, 1974, Paramount, 102 min. Dir. Alan J. Pakula. Impetuous reporter Warren Beatty’s hunt for a political assassin turns more and more terrifying as each successive layer of corruption and right-wing insanity is unpeeled. When he enlists in a program to recruit social misfits as political killers-for-hire, the narrative assumes cosmically paranoid dimensions. A daringly downbeat, uncompromising speculation on how far the advocates of repression will go.

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What is Executive Action / The Parallax View about?: EXECUTIVE ACTION, 1973, Warner Bros., 91 min. Dir. David Miller. Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan are two rich Texas men on a commission of right-wing corporate honchos who are revealed to be the real force behind the JFK assassination. Alarmed at civil rights progress, Kennedy’s commitment to the nuclear test-ban treaty and his wavering on Viet-Nam, they plot the president’s demise with a coldly detached precision.

THE PARALLAX VIEW, 1974, Paramount, 102 min. Dir. Alan J. Pakula. Impetuous reporter Warren Beatty’s hunt for a political assassin turns more and more terrifying as each successive layer of corruption and right-wing insanity is unpeeled. When he enlists in a program to recruit social misfits as political killers-for-hire, the narrative assumes cosmically paranoid dimensions. A daringly downbeat, uncompromising speculation on how far the advocates of repression will go.