Path to War

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Path to War
Directed by	John Frankenheimer
Produced by	Guy Riedel Cary Brokaw Howard Dratch John Frankenheimer Edgar J. Scherick
Written by	Daniel Giat
Starring	Michael Gambon
Music by	Gary Chang
Cinematography	Stephen Goldblatt Nancy Schreiber
Editing by	Richard Francis-Bruce
Running time	165 minutes
Language	English
IMDb profile

Path to War is a 2002 TV movie, produced by HBO that deals directly with the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of President Lyndon Johnson.

[edit] Featured cast

Actor	Role
Michael Gambon	Lyndon B. Johnson
Donald Sutherland	Clark M. Clifford
Alec Baldwin	Robert McNamara
Bruce McGill	George Ball
James Frain	Richard N. Goodwin
Felicity Huffman	Lady Bird Johnson
Frederic Forrest	Earle Wheeler
John Aylward	Dean Rusk
Philip Baker Hall	Everett Dirksen
Gary Sinise	George C. Wallace
Tom Skerritt	William Westmoreland
Cliff De Young	McGeorge Bundy
Chris Eigeman	Bill Moyers
John Valenti	Jack Valenti
Gerry Becker	Walt Rostow
Sarah Paulson	Luci Baines Johnson
Curtis L. McClarin	Martin Luther King Jr.

[edit] Trivia

• Gary Sinise, who had played Alabama governor George Wallace in a 1997 TNT biopic (also directed by Frankenheimer), reprises his role in a cameo appearance, in which Johnson intimidates Wallace into asking for the National Guard's help to deal with racial unrest.

[edit] External links

• Path to War at the Internet Movie Database
• Official site

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