Winter Kills (1979)

Satire on Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories based on the novel by Richard Condon. Winter Kills is the story of the half brother (Jeff Bridges) of a slain former U.S. president, who nearly two decades after his siblings death uncovers new evidence of a vast conspiracy behind said murder. The conspiracy involves seemingly everybody, especially if they happen to be played by aging Hollywood stars such as Sterling Hayden (doing a variant on his General Ripper from Dr. Strangelove), John Huston (as the presidents father), Eli Wallach, Ralph Meeker, Anthony Perkins, and a strangely uncredited Elizabeth Taylor, who has zero dialogue. Dorothy Malone also appears as one of the few characters who seems to have no involvement in the presidents death. The film starts out fairly straight, to the point you think it might be a more conventional mystery film, but it quickly ratchets up the crazy to mix results. Not a film I'd widely recommend, but an interesting enough cinematic oddity for the curious. **