Post by alfromni on Nov 5, 2019 17:20:37 GMT
BATouttaheck - Re #11. (Jesse James). Sorry, not a political assassination Bat.
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This is somewhat repetetive, but further to Guy Fawkes Day (Nov 5th) - "Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, Gunpowder, Treason & Plot"...
13 Movies about political assassins/assassinations, (successes or failures, fictional or factual) - Name the assassin(s) where possible.
01. Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (TVM 2-parter) - Robert Catesby (Richard Coyle) leader and planner of the failed Guy Fawkes (Michael Fassbender) Gunpowder Plot of 1605, an attempt to blow up an assembled Westminster Parliament.
02. Julius Caesar - multiple assassins
03. JFK - Assassin unofficially unknown. Disputed.
04. The Day of the Jackal - pseudonymous Englishman tries to take out de Gaulle.
05. Henry V - Would-be assassins Earl of Cambridge, Lord Scroop, Sir Thomas Grey.
06. The Manchurian Candidate - Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) brainwashed to be an assassin - he foils the evil commie plot
07. The Dead Zone - climaxes with John Smith (Christopher Walken) trying to shoot evil blowhard politician Martin Sheen
08/ Suddenly - John Baron (Frank Sinatra) plans to assassinate the POTUS.
09. The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) - assassin was Ramón Mercader (Alain Delon)
10. Dangerous Exile (1957) Col. St Gerard (Keith Michell) tries to kill Louis XVII for the good of the revolution.
11.The Assassination Bureau - Lord Bostwick (Telly Savalas) and the other members of the Bureau attempt to assassinate all the heads of state of Europe at a secret peace conference.
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This is somewhat repetetive, but further to Guy Fawkes Day (Nov 5th) - "Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, Gunpowder, Treason & Plot"...
13 Movies about political assassins/assassinations, (successes or failures, fictional or factual) - Name the assassin(s) where possible.
01. Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (TVM 2-parter) - Robert Catesby (Richard Coyle) leader and planner of the failed Guy Fawkes (Michael Fassbender) Gunpowder Plot of 1605, an attempt to blow up an assembled Westminster Parliament.
02. Julius Caesar - multiple assassins
03. JFK - Assassin unofficially unknown. Disputed.
04. The Day of the Jackal - pseudonymous Englishman tries to take out de Gaulle.
05. Henry V - Would-be assassins Earl of Cambridge, Lord Scroop, Sir Thomas Grey.
06. The Manchurian Candidate - Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) brainwashed to be an assassin - he foils the evil commie plot
07. The Dead Zone - climaxes with John Smith (Christopher Walken) trying to shoot evil blowhard politician Martin Sheen
08/ Suddenly - John Baron (Frank Sinatra) plans to assassinate the POTUS.
09. The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) - assassin was Ramón Mercader (Alain Delon)
10. Dangerous Exile (1957) Col. St Gerard (Keith Michell) tries to kill Louis XVII for the good of the revolution.
11.The Assassination Bureau - Lord Bostwick (Telly Savalas) and the other members of the Bureau attempt to assassinate all the heads of state of Europe at a secret peace conference.