Director David Miller was not the most suitable candidate for this provocative project, which in John Frankenheimer's hands might have been more riveting still. The financing, perhaps, was restricted, also. And yet, adverse and unwarranted critical response to the movie's premise as a quasi-documentary provoked skepticism among serious students of the conspiracy theory. Miller's other movies, 'Back Street' 1961; 'Captain Newman, M.D.'; 'Midnight Lace', among them, failed to reach a level of accomplishment similar to that of his finest: 'Lonely Are the Brave', sadly neglected for restoration.

I can't tell You how glad I am this Movie is on this list.When I tell people how this Film is 10 times better than JFK & tells the story in half the time,they've never heard of it.

Haven't seen this in a long time; I think it may have been on TV a few years (or more!) ago. I can't even remember most of the actors (Burt Lancaster was in it). It's a conspiracy theory movie of the JFK assassination (I think it was the first one out, but am not positive). Basically, the premise was that unnamed US government agencies and high ranking government officials wanted JFK eliminated because too many of his policies were too liberal or were harming the country. There were multiple gunmen involved, and Oswald was a dupe. It had me spellbound; some of the speculation was intriguing. What sticks most in my mind was not the movie per se, but the list of names of people connected with the assassination (even as bystanders) who alllegedly met with violent or unexplained deaths within a couple of years after the event. If the list is a list of real people, and isn't fictitious, then the odds of that happening are truly unbelievable.