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Seven Days in May

starring: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien
directed by: John Frankenheimer

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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: 6105
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

Amazon.com:
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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Though the movie suffers a bit when Lancaster is offscreen and the viewer ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - 7 days in may
excellent movie based on a best selling book. douglas and lancaster really relate to each other as to how ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Still works today
Some of the best actors in Hollywood are in this film, but the best performance, as far as I am concerned ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Seven Days in May
Classic political science fiction. The book and the movie are favorites of mine. This is a must see. It ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - 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 ... Read More

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