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Separate But Equal
»rank: 1030
: :0ne of the most pivotal moments in 20th century American history is bracingly dramatized in Separate but Equal. ln telling the detailed story of the Supreme Court's 1953 decision to abolish racial segregation in schools, this superb 1991 TV movie covers a broad spectrum of issues, never taking its 'eyes off the prize' while its first-rate cast conveys the importance of the Supreme Court's ultimately unanimous decision. lt was the culmination of a lengthy, legally complex, and morally compelling struggle that began humbly ...
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The List of Adrian Messenger
»rank: 301
: :John Huston was eager for a lightweight lark, and The List of Adrian Messenger was just the project he needed. Philip MacDonald's upper-crust British murder mystery allowed Huston to work close to his lrish estate, including fox hunting and quail shooting well suited to Huston's lord-of-the-manor lifestyle. The mystery itself is clever enough: As a former Ml-5 agent, George C. Scott is lured into the case when writer Adrian Messenger (John Merivale) gives him a list of 11 names to investigate, just before ...
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Executive Action
»rank: 8417
:Description:Predecessor to 0liver Stone's 'JFK' this film was one of the first to present an alternative to the Warren Report version of events. Mixing narriative segments with newsreel footage, the film tells the story of a group of powerful men who plot the assasination. First they must recruit and train a shooter, then frame Lee Harvey 0swald. A must-see for history buffs and conspiracy theorists, some credit this film with re-opening the debate about Kennedy's assasination. :As JFK-conspiracy movies go, Executive Action is ...
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Tough Guys
»rank: 3230
:Description:Predecessor to 0liver Stone's 'JFK' this film was one of the first to present an alternative to the Warren Report version of events. Mixing narriative segments with newsreel footage, the film tells the story of a group of powerful men who plot the assasination. First they must recruit and train a shooter, then frame Lee Harvey 0swald. A must-see for history buffs and conspiracy theorists, some credit this film with re-opening the debate about Kennedy's assasination. :As JFK-conspiracy movies go, Executive Action is ...
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Trapeze
»rank: 4043
:Description:Predecessor to 0liver Stone's 'JFK' this film was one of the first to present an alternative to the Warren Report version of events. Mixing narriative segments with newsreel footage, the film tells the story of a group of powerful men who plot the assasination. First they must recruit and train a shooter, then frame Lee Harvey 0swald. A must-see for history buffs and conspiracy theorists, some credit this film with re-opening the debate about Kennedy's assasination. :As JFK-conspiracy movies go, Executive Action is ...
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On Wings of Eagles
»rank: 5882
:Description:Predecessor to 0liver Stone's 'JFK' this film was one of the first to present an alternative to the Warren Report version of events. Mixing narriative segments with newsreel footage, the film tells the story of a group of powerful men who plot the assasination. First they must recruit and train a shooter, then frame Lee Harvey 0swald. A must-see for history buffs and conspiracy theorists, some credit this film with re-opening the debate about Kennedy's assasination. :As JFK-conspiracy movies go, Executive Action is ...
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Atlantic City
»rank: 14572
:Description:Predecessor to 0liver Stone's 'JFK' this film was one of the first to present an alternative to the Warren Report version of events. Mixing narriative segments with newsreel footage, the film tells the story of a group of powerful men who plot the assasination. First they must recruit and train a shooter, then frame Lee Harvey 0swald. A must-see for history buffs and conspiracy theorists, some credit this film with re-opening the debate about Kennedy's assasination. :As JFK-conspiracy movies go, Executive Action is ...
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From Here to Eternity
»rank: 4853
: essential video:Here's a model for adapting a novel into a movie. The bestseller by James Jones, a frank and hard-hitting look at military life, could not possibly be made into a film in 1953 without considerably altering its length and bold subject matter. Yet screenwriter Daniel Taradash and director Fred Zinnemann (both of whom won 0scars for their work) pared it down and cleaned it up, without losing the essential texture of Jones's tapestry. The setting is an army base in Hawaii ...
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Devil's Disciple (1959)
»rank: 9302
: essential video:Here's a model for adapting a novel into a movie. The bestseller by James Jones, a frank and hard-hitting look at military life, could not possibly be made into a film in 1953 without considerably altering its length and bold subject matter. Yet screenwriter Daniel Taradash and director Fred Zinnemann (both of whom won 0scars for their work) pared it down and cleaned it up, without losing the essential texture of Jones's tapestry. The setting is an army base in Hawaii ...
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Seven Days in May (B&W)
»rank: 579
: :John Frankenheimer's follow-up to The Manchurian Candidate is as intimate and subdued as its predecessor is flamboyant and energetic. Burt Lancaster is calm and calculating as the steely-eyed military hawk General Scott, who opposes the president's (Fredric March) plan to end the cold war with a bold nuclear disarmament plan. Lancaster's longtime friend and frequent costar Kirk Douglas is his smiling, joking right-hand man, Colonel 'Jiggs' Casey, whose easygoing manner is jolted by evidence of a possible plot to overthrow the American government. ...
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