spoiler hire assassin john baron and frank sinatra and saw just how futile the hit job and that he and his fellow hire killer who be pay up to $ 500 and 000 . 00 each and be to assassinate the president of the united state while a second after he shoot he will be replace by someone else so what the purpose of kill the president anyway . the movie suddenly be more then just a solid thriller as well a a curiosity piece . it unknowingly and unconsciously foretell a real presidential assassination and jfk and by some nine year after it release . the way the assassination be depict planned and put into motion be far more realistic and believable then what the warran commission come up with . instead of one lone nut all by himself with one gun that the warren commission come up with the film have a trio of professional killer . who be hire by an unknown person and or person and to knock off the president for reason know only to themselves . another oddity about the film sudddenly be that it be actually broadcast on the cbs network the early show week before the assassination of jfk take place in november 1963. with the president of the united state special train due to stop at the town of suddenly the secret service fbi and local policeman get a tip of a possible assassination and that they get from a shot and die hoodlum . the cop search the building and store by the railway station to make sure that everything be secure for the president stopover it also turn out the tip be real while three hire hit men be in town to pay the president a deadly visit . lead by john baron the thee and posing a fbi men and take over the home of pete benson and a retired secret service man and and his widowed daughter ellen and eight year old grandson pidge and james gleson nancy gate and kim charney . the trio shoot both sheriff tod shaw and sterling hayden and who be wound and secret service head don carney and willis bouchey and who die a they come to the door to check thing out . it now just a matter of time for the train to pull up and for them and with baron a the shooter and to get the president in their cross hair . it between the time that the killer wait for the presidential train to pull up at the station that two of them benny conkln and bart wheeler and paul free and christopher blake and begin to realize what their do and how the odds be against them to survive and escape from the law while nobody have ever get away with kill a president of the united state and they will be no exception . only the psycho and insecure barnon think that he can pull this off and even after benny be shoot dead by the suddenly police and a he case out the train station less then an hour before the president train be to arrive . be on an ego trip more then anything else baron and despite the police already be tip off and be determine to get the job do and in the end do a job not only on his co hit men but on himself . chill as well a entertain movie with frank sinatra at his best a crazed ex war veteran john baron who feel that life have deal him a losing hand and be to even everything up by kill the president and get away with it at the same time . sterling hayden be a bit stiff a the town sheriff tod shaw and have a hard time convince the audience and as well a those on the screen and that he in danger of lose his life even after he be shoot . hayden read his line in such a mechanical way that he come across a if he a telephone answer machine . both nancy gate and james gleason a ellen and pete benson be effective a hostage . ellen concern for her son and father as well a her fear of gun and ellen husband be kill in the korean war and come across believable and at the same time unnerve . since she force to use a hated gun to save her and her father together with pete and james ohara and and her son pidge live towards the end of the movie .