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Prince Jack is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 1 december 1985 with Robert J. Hogan
Prince Jack (1985)
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Add to a movie listPrince Jack is a 1985 film from Castle Hill Productions which dramatizes some of the inner workings of the Kennedy administration, including efforts by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to address the issue of civil rights. Although primarily a dramatic narrative, Prince Jack also uses satire and black humor, especially with regard to the Kennedy brothers' complicated relationship with Lyndon B. Johnson.
Prince Jack covers the period from the Democratic National Convention in July 1960 to the autumn of 1963, just prior to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The film was written and directed by Bert Lovitt.
Actors
Robert J. Hogan
(John F. Kennedy)
Lloyd Nolan
(Joe Kennedy)
Kenneth Mars
(Lyndon Johnson)
Dana Andrews
(The Cardinal)
Robert Guillaume
(Martin Luther King)
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