Post by persistenceofvision on Nov 5, 2019 17:33:35 GMT
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. Angel has Fallen - Mike Banning (Gerard Butler)is framed for the attempted assassination of the President and must evade his own agency and the FBI as he tries to uncover the real threat.
12. The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade - Charlotte Corday (played by madwoman played by Glenda Jackson) does it with cheap knife
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. Angel has Fallen - Mike Banning (Gerard Butler)is framed for the attempted assassination of the President and must evade his own agency and the FBI as he tries to uncover the real threat.
12. The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade - Charlotte Corday (played by madwoman played by Glenda Jackson) does it with cheap knife