Enterprise state power
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Enterprise state power |
| Original title | Executive action |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Miller |
| script | Dalton Trumbo |
| production | Edward Lewis |
| music | Randy Edelman |
| camera | Robert Steadman |
| cut | George Grenville |
| occupation | |
as well as John Brascia , Richard Bull , Lee Delano , Dick Miller , Rutanya Alda and Hunter Von Leer as other professional killers | |
Enterprise state power (original title: Executive Action ) is an American political thriller around the assassination of John F. Kennedy from 1973 based on a script by Dalton Trumbo . Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan play the leading roles of the conspirators from right-wing industrial circles.
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On November 22, 1963, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas , Texas. On the same day, the police arrested the alleged perpetrator, a certain Lee Harvey Oswald , who was until then largely a blank slate. Before he can be convicted, he too falls victim to an assassination attempt. Although the Warren Commission found Oswald's sole guilt, the voices of those who believe that the attack was a plot of interested parties did not fall silent. The film dares to speculate, according to which very rich and very powerful Americans - industrialists, high intelligence officers and right-wing extremists - have come together and conspired to have the 35th President of the United States assassinated.
In June 1963, five months before the assassination, several men met in a conspiratorial manner on the manorial estate of the wealthy Robert Foster. They all share a hatred of the current incumbent, Kennedy, who appears to them to be too soft and too indulgent and, above all, much too liberal. Also included are the influential oil tycoon Harold Ferguson, whose power and wealth are just as important to the proposed venture as James Farrington, a former CIA man and specialist in "special" covert operations. In meticulously precise planning, concepts are worked out how the American president can best be eliminated without even the slightest suspicion falling on you, the people behind it and the people behind the scenes.
The motives of the conspirators are different, each of the conspirators is driven by something different to participate in the plot: in conversations it turns out, for example, that one of the conspirators does not agree with the withdrawal from Vietnam planned by the Kennedy administration by 1965, while others face the worldwide population development, which means a sharp increase in the number of dark-skinned (blacks, Latinos) and "yellow" (Chinese) people, fear for white supremacy in America. After numerous discussions and one-on-one conversations, it is agreed to have the deed carried out. Farrington has put together several teams, consisting of very professional snipers. On November 22nd, 1963 the nefarious deed was finally accomplished, the camouflage perfect.
In order to get rid of the scapegoat Oswald as quickly as possible, Farrington contacts the nightclub owner Jack Ruby , who soon afterwards murders Oswald in public. When Farrington suddenly dies of a heart attack shortly afterwards, the last connection to the hired killer snipers is cut off. At the end of the film, we learn that a total of 18 witnesses to the attack died in a highly unnatural way over the next three years.
Production notes
State power began on November 7, 1973 in the United States. The German first broadcast was on February 12, 1977 at 8.15 p.m. on ARD .
The term executive action has been referring to CIA operations that focus on a murder assignment since the early 1950s . Numerous documentary recordings relating to the Kennedy murder are woven into the film.
This was the penultimate film appearance for co-star Robert Ryan. As in most of his late works at the beginning of the 1970s, "one saw Robert Ryan ... as a dark, wire-pulling existence behind the scenes or as a gang boss (" Hunting "," Revolt in the Underworld "and the film speculation" State Authority ", in the Ryan was one of several fictional conspirators in the assassination of John F. Kennedy). "
Reviews
The film review reacted to this highly speculative political thriller irritated to strongly negative. Below is a small selection:
Leonard Maltin wrote: "Excruciatingly dull thriller promised to clear the air about JFK's assassination but was more successful at clearing theaters".
Halliwell's Film Guide characterized the film as follows: “Interesting but rather messy mixture of fact and fiction; makes one sit up while it's unreeling. "
In Dalton Trumbo's biography, Kay less called corporate state power a “daring conspiracy theory on the Kennedy murder” in 1963
The Lexicon of International Films stated: “Documentary material and fictional scenes are combined in a film about the murder of John F. Kennedy (November 22, 1963), which blames a right-wing radical clique for the assassination. A conspiratorial story that shakes up with its historical references, but is not very convincing in its critical intentions due to thriller effects. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 399
- ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 325
- ↑ The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .
- ^ Enterprise state power. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- Company state power in the Internet Movie Database (English)