tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post8935245557757464935..comments2024-03-24T14:03:33.932-07:00Comments on Every 70s Movie: Executive Action (1973)By Peter Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385971732301020652noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-6630086510955020942021-05-07T01:54:45.876-07:002021-05-07T01:54:45.876-07:00Am I the only one who noticed that Robert Ryan'...Am I the only one who noticed that Robert Ryan's mansion here was the same one that the <i>Batman</i> tv series used as "Stately Wayne Manor"?Mike Doranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14427528138598549103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-18866213691717900052018-03-19T01:21:34.671-07:002018-03-19T01:21:34.671-07:00"The movie is based on a book by inveterate c..."The movie is based on a book by inveterate conspiracy theorists Donald Freed and Mark Lane."<br /><br />Freed and Lane are only credited in the film for its story. They did not author a novel about the assassination. A paperback novelization of the film was published by Dell in 1974, but I doubt either man wrote it: Lane's several books about the case are all nonfiction.Peter L. Winklerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16005846686173676213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-51854436598304591692016-10-02T19:44:13.379-07:002016-10-02T19:44:13.379-07:00Haven't seen this film in ages. Interesting ch...Haven't seen this film in ages. Interesting chain of events around this time: this film was made in '73, in '75 the Zapruder film was shown on television for the first time, and a year later Congress re-opened the investigation into the JFK assassination. Jack (LJCSOGHMOMAS)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03776032680501418300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-22669834384915407392013-02-01T15:10:35.239-08:002013-02-01T15:10:35.239-08:00Glad to see some love for this flick...I saw it in...Glad to see some love for this flick...I saw it in the theaters as a teenager and found it gripping, and have watched it several times over the years and it holds up incredibly well...the title card fade out is very powerful.<br /><br />I grew up in the New York area and there was great controvery about the netwroks refusing to run the commercials for the film. Only a local station WWOR had the guts to run them.Joe Martinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11960803506051969149noreply@blogger.com