Winter Kills

Big-star-studded black comedy-thriller in which a frenzied fantasy is staged around JFK's assassination, spawned from the satirical brain of Richard Condon, the author of The Manchurian Candidate. In Winter Kills, Condon goes completely over the top. He stages a Kennedy-like dynasty in which the younger brother (Jeff Bridges) of the assassinated president, hit by a lone killer at the time, discovers that a second gunman was involved. Besides the CIA, the mafia, the Dallas police, the military-industrial complex, an additional conspiracy theory comes into play here: a studio boss allegedly orchestrated the assassination after the suicide of a Marilyn Monroe-like sex bomb. However, it is the pater familias, a supreme, thoroughly depraved tycoon (frenzied starring role by John Huston) who pulls the strings and dominates the Byzantine intrigues. The director of this cult film is the now forgotten William Richert.