Major Motion Pictures Related to JFK
- Suddenly - with Frank Sinatra as a presidential assassin shooting a high powered rifle with scope from a window.
- Manchurian Candidate - Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey as returning POWs brainwashed by the Chinese in North Korea to be reactivated as assassins.
- Seven Days in May - Kurt Douglas film about a military coup to take over the presidency. Filming at the White House approved by President Kennedy.
- PT109 - Cliff Robertson stars as JFK in the South Pacific during WWII.
- 13 Days - with Kevin Costner staring as Presidential assistant during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Executive Action - Burt Lancaster leads a team of covert snipers paid by Texas Oil tycoons to kill the President.
- JFK - Director's Cut - Oliver Stone's movie about New Orleans Jim Garrison's response to the assassination and trial of Clay Shaw.
- Che - Movie about the life of Che Guevara - Fidel Castro's Argentine doctor associate.
- Parallax View - Warren Beatty stars as a reporter infiltrating an organization that supplies assassins - and patsys.
- Valkyrie - The story of the German military plot to kill Hitler, take over the government and seek a negotiated peace.
- Z - Movie about the assassination of a liberal Greek politician and a prosecutor's determination to identify the culprits.
- Ruby - The story of Jack Ruby, his mob associations and how he was brought into the plot to kill the accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
- Umbrella Man - ? Just heard about this one.
- Parkland - A non-conspiratorial movie about the assassination with emphasis on Oswald's brother Robert.
- David Atlee Phillips, wrote an unpolished manuscript about his escape from a German POW camp during WWII that he says was never published or made into a movie because of Stalig 17 and The Great Escape, but that his experiences in the POW camp was his first introduction to intelligence techniques, as also exhibited in those two movies.
- Love Field - about a vivacious blonde from Dallas who together with a black man, drive across the country to attend JFK's funeral.
- Bubba Ho Tep - An Elvis impersonator wakes from a coma in an institution believing he is Elvis, and hooks up with a black man who believes he is a still living JFK - and they fight off an Egyptian ghost.
- 7 Days of the Condor - CIA reader survives an attack on his NYC office and sets out to find out who was behind it.
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IF YOU KNOW OF ANY OTHERS THAT I MISSED - Please post below or email me:
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The movie with the vivacious blonde and the black man might be Love Field? I haven't seen it, but the description sounds similar to what I've heard of it.
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