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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790748085
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790748088
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 16, 2000
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 6237
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 12, 1964
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The clock ticks on a charismatic generals scheme to overthrow the government of an unpopular president. Special features: original theatrical trailer feature-length audio commentary by director john frankenheimer and subtitles in english and french. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/19/2000 Starring: Burt Lancaster Fredric March Run time: 117 minutes Rating: Nr Director: John Frankenheimer
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John Frankenheimer's follow-up to The Manchurian Candidate is as intimate and subdued as its predecessor is flamboyant and energetic. Burt Lancaster is calm and calculating as the steely-eyed military hawk General Scott, who opposes the president's (Fredric March) plan to end the cold war with a bold nuclear disarmament plan. Lancaster's longtime friend and frequent costar Kirk Douglas is his smiling, joking right-hand man, Colonel 'Jiggs' Casey, whose easygoing manner is jolted by evidence of a possible plot to overthrow the American government. Scripted by Rod Serling from the novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey, the film plays much like a classic live TV drama (the medium that spawned both Frankenheimer and Serling), with the drama arising from conversations and confrontations and the action largely limited to scenes within the Pentagon and the White House. An ominous undercurrent of danger seeps through the realistic (and often real) settings of the film, conveyed chiefly through the intensity of the excellent ensemble performances. Notable among the supporting cast are Ava Gardner as a lonely Washington socialite who was once the general's mistress, Edmond O'Brien as an amiable alcoholic senator, Martin Balsam as the president's shrewd but skeptical secretary, and underrated character actor George Macready as the wily presidential advisor. --Sean Axmaker
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Rating:  - Still works today
Some of the best actors in Hollywood are in this film, but the best performance, as far as I am concerned is by Burt Lancaster. When I read this book and saw the movie as a teenager, it scared me to death to think how easy it would have been to topple our government. I would highly recommend this movie for any age range, with the caveat that reading the book first would enhance the experience.
Rating: - Seven Days in May
Classic political science fiction. The book and the movie are favorites of mine. This is a must see. It could happen here.
Rating: - A meditation of democracy
There is much to like about "Seven Days in May" as others have noted. In this comment I focus on one long scene: the confrontation between President Jordan Lyman and General James Mattoon Scott.
It is a compelling dialogue about democracy. The general is full of himself, and realized effortlessly as only Burt Lancaster could do, an under-rated actor by all but Luchino Visconti. The beleaguered president, played with enormous conviction and depth by Frederich March, still has one thing the general does not have, an electoral mandate.
While the film seems far fetched, a coup d'état in the United States, as others have noted, the underlying tension is real. There are times when the elected government may well have lost the confidence of the electorate, but it clings on because the constitution permits or indeed requires it to do so. The election occurred in the past, by definition, and events may have wrought great changes, or the government, in this case embodied in one man, the president, may have changed course for one reason or another. That electoral mandate is then a thing of the past, or so it may seem.
There are many examples, an Australian prime minster was removed from office in mid-term as recently as 1975, Israeli governments have stumbled as changing coalitions have produced policies from pure air, the threat of coup d'état against Charles DeGaulle over Algerian independence was very real. More mundane examples likewise abound. ... Read More
Rating: - DVD-Seven Days in May
I received the product promptly and we watched the movie without a hitch.
Thank you.
Rating: - 7 Days in May
This is one of the great movies of the cold war era. The acting by Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglass et al is superb. One of the things that I rarely do is watch the director's clip on the making of a movie. This movie is one that you must do so. To listen to Frakenheimer describe the how he was able to get JFK's permission to film in front of the White House; the discussion about the riot scenes...well just buy the movie, you won't be sorry.
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