in the aftermath of watergate and a number of conspiracy movie appear and such a this one and write by the late adam kennedy ( base on his novel ) . gene hackman play ex vietnam veteran roy tucker and a loser who have wind up in prison . he receive visit from marvin tagge ( richard widmark ) and who claim to represent an organisation design to assist the wrongly convict . they offer him freedom and and despite distrust tagge he accept . but he bring along a fellow cell mate by the name of spiventa ( mickey rooney ) . exactly why be hard to see and a spiventa be an irritating little man who drive tucker mad with persistent talk of sex and not what you want to hear when you be behind bar . tagge benefactor kill spiventa before tucker astonish eye . reunite with wife ellie ( candice bergen ) and and give a new identity ( strangely and he do not attempt to change his appearance . shave off that cheesy moustache would have be a start ) and he settle down and but find there be a catch tagge want tucker to do no less than assassinate the president of the united state . he refuse and so tagge have ellie abduct . i will leave the synopsis here and but i be sure you can guess the rest for yourself . the script have enough plot hole to make you want to read the book ( neat trick that . ) . the people tagge represent be never reveal . the allusion to j. f. k. kill be unmistakable . despite the finding of the warren commission and the doubt a to whether lee harvey oswald act alone persists to this day . this be stanley kramer first movie in year and and while no turkey and it lack the grip of say john frankenheimer the manchurian candidate or alan j. pakula the parallax view . be a left wing conspiracy movie and it tend to skirt around it subject matter instead of get to grip with it . i prefer right wing one myself they be funny . domino have the look and feel of a make for t. v. movie and and boast what must be the easy prison escape in movie history not to mention an end copped from the michael caine classic get carter . what make it watchable be gene hackman and richard widmark . the latter and who sadly pass away earlier this year and be superb a the mysterious tagge and who initially appear to be behind the operation until he too be ruthlessly eliminate and begin a chain of death design to remove all trace of evidence a one by one the perpetrator of this evil plot fall just like domino . a tucker and the innocent pawn and hackman be marvellous . you have to wonder though why he choose to hide out in such an obvious place . in his shoe and i would have flee to the other side of the world and anywhere to get away from these fanatic . hackman love scene with bergen slow the plot down and and it be almost a relief when she get snatch . presumably the producer think so too and which explain why it open with a bizarre prologue set out the film entire premise voice by british actor patrick allen warn the audience that they be out there and and that they be out to get u . comedian les dawson later spoof this opening in his b. b. c. show the dawson watch . mickey rooney have earlier work with kramer on it a mad and mad and mad and mad and mad world . his wouldeath scene here resemble like an outtake from that picture and with the actor look a though he have be sting by a wasp rather than shoot dead . conspiracy movie use to be only make by the left and but now the right be get in on the act too . last year and take liberty and an absurd concoction of lie and half truth about tony blair government turn out to be britain answer to reefer madness . at least and domino have lovely candice bergen . the best chris atkins film could offer be anne widdecombe . surprisingly and the domino principle be make by sir lew grade and the legendary british television mogul behind the saint and jesus of nazareth and the muppet show . he work with adam kennedy again in 1980 on raise the titanic . and whose failure be so great it sink grade ambition of be the new louis b. meyer . be somewhat open mind and i would not rule out the possibility of a conspiracy .