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Burt Lancaster,
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John Frankenheimer,
John Frankenheimer
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: Not Rated
: Warner Home Video
: Political Thriller
: 118 min.
: English
: English, French
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Adapted by Rod Serling from the best-selling novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles Waldo Bailey II, Seven Days in May was allegedly inspired by the far-right ramblings of one General Edwin Walker. Burt Lancaster plays General James M. Scott, who, convinced that liberal President Jordan Lyman (Fredric March) is soft on America's enemies, plots a military takeover of the United States. Every effort made by President Lyman to find concrete evidence of General Scott's scheme is scuttled by political protocol, human error and accidental death. Ultimately, Lyman must rely upon the man who first uncovered the plot: Colonel "Jiggs" Casey (Kirk Douglas). John Frankenheimer's terse direction and Ellsworth Fredericks' stark black and white photography enhance the "docudrama" feel of Seven Days in May. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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| Solid old-style thriller
by Texan99
September 5, 2010 - 1:21 PM PDT
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| An old favorite that still holds up. Frankenheimer really knew how to tell a conspiracy tale. It's nice to be in the hands of a director who is more interested in his story than in beating his own political drum. I find his work very uneven, but when he's good, he's good (the original Manchurian Candidate, The French Connection, Seconds). -- I have to say, I missed Leonard Nimoy's bit part and now am wracking my brain to figure out whom he could have played in this movie. |
| the dream life
by cammelltoe
May 28, 2007 - 6:31 PM PDT
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| the least flashy and most prone to preachiness of Frankenheimer's loose "paranoia" trilogy of the sixties (with "the manchuarian canidate" and "seconds"), "seven days of may" suffers from a certain lumpen static-ness in pacing (at least when watching on t.v.) but is nonetheless a great political thriller and an admirable roman a clef of cold war intrigue and foreign policy tensions (see j hoberman's recent book "the dream life" for a fascinating, and funny, analysis of the film in it's historical context). the cast is all aces, especially evident in one scene where Burt Lancaster and Fredric March go head to head in the oval office. A more contemporary reference would be that it's like an (even more) visually stunning episode of the "west wing"...and you're damn skippy i mean that as a compliment. |
| We're All Living the Version with Another Ending
by JPielaszczyk
March 29, 2005 - 12:08 PM PST
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1 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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| This is a fine one for showing us how badly we've been had. In the movie version, the messenger carrying the incriminating confession gets shot down in a commercial plane . . . but the message is recovered, and justice is served. In the movie version, the president decides not to present evidence which bolsters his case . . . but would incriminate the woman. He triumphs, and the woman's rep is spared. |
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