Path to War

This might be the best way for John Frankenheimer to stop making filmed entertainment. Frankenheimer was a huge Kennedy supporter, even being at The Ambassador hotel to drive Bobby Kennedy after the event when the former AG was shot, an event that convinced Frankenheimer to move to Europe and pick up cooking as a hobby. Making a movie about LBJ, his ambitions, and his treatment of war aims in Vietnam feels like a certain level of closure to his career. I don’t think the treatment is quite as...