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Seven Days in May Reviews

Underrated political thriller. Great script. Great performances

Full Review | Jun 1, 2024

Of the seven motion pictures Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas starred in together during their careers, 1964’s Seven Days in May is unquestionably my favorite.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 22, 2024

The film remains as topical as ever.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 22, 2021

Seven Days in May stands up ... the issue of the threat represented by the American military to the democratic rights of the people has hardly receded into the background. On the contrary, it is ten times more pressing than it was in 1964.

Full Review | Feb 10, 2021

I went expecting to be entertained by a tough, fast, realistic melodrama... I sat through a meandering parade of conventional TV types wandering through situations so vaguely defined that it would be charity to call them implausible.

Full Review | Aug 13, 2019

one of the finest political thrillers ever made

Full Review | May 19, 2019

...a decent hour-long thriller trapped within the confines of a bloated misfire.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 3, 2018

Frankenheimer's gripping political tale of conspiracy benefits from taut direction, good acting by an all-star cast, and excellent technical values, especially cinematography.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | May 13, 2012

It's a good, engaging movie - great-looking, too, with top-notch photography and production design - but it tends to fall apart when you start kicking the tires and peek under the hood.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 20, 2010

Frankenheimer's Washington, D.C., less baroque than in The Manchurian Candidate but just as hazardous

Full Review | Feb 20, 2010

Shot in stark black and white, it shows the military not as the usual buffoons, but as ruthless right-wingers with a political agenda.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2008

Sure to keep you on the edge of your seat.

Full Review | Aug 13, 2007

A strikingly dramatic, realistic and provocatively topical film.

John Frankenheimer directed, too much in love with technique, though he ably taps the neuroticism of Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Fredric March.

Gripping political thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Apr 26, 2007

Highly enjoyable.

Full Review | Jun 24, 2006

As dismal as is the complication that they and this picture present, the acknowledgment of its possibility and the discovery of how it might be resolved, with wisdom and fundamental courage, make this a brave and forceful film.

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Seven Days in May (1964) Film Review A+

Coming off his masterpiece “ The Manchurian Candidate” in 1962, director John Frankenheimer, then at the absolute peak of his powers, tackled Rod Sterling’s superb, adapted screenplay (based on the novel of the same name by Knebel and Bailey) about a military-political cabal’s planned takeover of the United States government, in reaction to the president’s negotiation of a disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union. The results were excellent.

Representing a peak entry in the American political thriller genre, the film boasts not one but four of the most outstanding performances of the sixties:

Frederic Marsh as the president of the United States.

Kirk Douglas as USMC Colonel “Jiggs” Casey.

Burt Lancaster as US Air Force General James Mattoon Scott, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Edmond O’Brien as US Senator Ray Clark. (Oscar Nomination for Best Supporting Actor).

Lancaster’s General Scott instigates the coup, while Douglas’ Colonel Casey sticks by the president. Meanwhile, O’Brien’s perpetually inebriated senator is investigating a secret base in Texas, ground zero for the planned takeover.

Douglas and Lancaster are perfect, two hyper-masculine actors with different personas interconnecting beautifully.

However, the movie’s high point is a stunning confrontation between Lancaster and March, the latter (like Lew Ayers, newly elected president in “ Advice and Consent” two years earlier) not being the weakling that Lancaster had bargained for.

The film’s only weak ink is the (luckily) minor Douglas subplot with Ava Gardner as an old flame who has returned to his life. Purely there as a love interest, Gardener is sorely wasted, and she seems lost in this very masculine movie.

The superb black-and-white cinematography by Ellsworth Fredericks.

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The story of a nearly successful military takeover of the U.S. government,  Seven Days in May  was scripted by  Twilight Zone creator and moralizing nag Rod Serling, which means the viewer must endure occasional scenes of cringe-inducing, self-righteous blather shoehorned into an otherwise exceptional political thriller. Thankfully, the movie’s strengths — a brilliant cast (Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Fredric March), director John Frankenheimer’s taut pacing and a scarily credible plot — far outweigh Serling’s chronic tendency to buttonhole and sermonize. When, near the end of the film, Douglas’s character, a career military man, finally confronts his one-time hero and now proven traitor, Gen. James Mattoon Scott (Lancaster), the macho tension between the two superstars — and close off-screen friends — is staggering.

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A combination of competents has drawn from the novel of the same title a strikingly dramatic, realistic and provocatively topical film in Seven Days in May. Fletcher Knebel-Charles W. Bailey II's book detailed a military plot to overthrow the government of the United States 'in the not-too-distant future'.

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A combination of competents has drawn from the novel of the same title a strikingly dramatic, realistic and provocatively topical film in Seven Days in May. Fletcher Knebel-Charles W. Bailey II’s book detailed a military plot to overthrow the government of the United States ‘in the not-too-distant future’.

What Seven Days in May undertakes is the proposition that extremists could reach the point where they’d try to uproot the present form of government. Such a man is Gen. James M. Scott, played with authority by Burt Lancaster. He’s a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, burning with patriotic fervor and seeking to ‘save’ the country from the perils of a just-signed nuclear pact with Russia. He enlists the support of fellow chiefs. Their plan of seizure is to be consummated in seven days in May.

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The performances are excellent down the line, under the taut and penetrating directorial guidance of John Frankenheimer. Kirk Douglas is masterfully cool and matter of fact as Scott’s aide, utterly devoted until he comes to be suspicious. He goes to the president with information that has got to be checked out in those fateful seven days.

Edmond O’Brien is standout as a southern senator with an addiction to bourbon and an unfailing loyalty to the president. Ava Gardner works out well enough as the Washington matron who has had an affair with Lancaster and is amenable to a go with Douglas.

1964: Nominations: Best Supp. Actor (Edmond O’Brien), B&W Art Direction

• Production: Seven Arts/Joel. Director John Frankenheimer; Producer Edward Lewis; Screenplay Rod Serling; Camera Ellsworth Fredricks; Editor Ferris Webster; Music Jerry Goldsmith; Art Director Cary Odell
• Crew: (B&W) Available on VHS, DVD. Extract of a review from 1964. Running time: 120 MIN.
• With: Burt Lancaster Kirk Douglas Fredric March Ava Gardner Edmond O'Brien Martin Balsam

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Seven Days in May (1964) Classic Movie Review 111

Yes, I know who Judas was. He was a man I worked for and admired until he disgraced the four stars on his uniform. – Seven Days in May (1964)

Today’s movie is Seven Days in May (1964). This star-studded military movie doesn’t feature any combat. But there is enough action for anyone, as a rogue general tries to replace the US president in a military coup. Every actor in this movie is amazing but I want to call out Edmond O’Brien who plays a drunken Senator. Rod Serling wrote the screenplay and the movie was directed by John Frankenheimer.

So, let’ jump right into the actors, many of whom are show veterans.

Actors – Seven Days in May (1964)

Burt Lancaster played Gen. James Mattoon Scott. The great Burt Lancaster was covered in Birdman of Alcatraz (1962).

Kirk Douglas played Col. Martin ‘Jiggs’ Casey. Douglas was first covered in In Harm’s Way (1965).

Fredric March plays seemingly weak President Jordan Lyman. March was first covered in The Buccaneer (1938).

Edmond O’Brien was great as permanently inebriated Sen. Raymond Clark. O’Brien was covered in Birdman of Alcatraz (1962).

Martin Balsam plays the president’s aide Paul Girard. Balsam was covered in Time Limit (1957).

Hugh Marlowe played the role of Harold McPherson. Marlowe was covered in World Without End (1956).

Whit Bissell plays Sen. Frederick Prentice Bissell was covered in Birdman of Alcatraz (1962).

John Houseman played Vice-Adm. Farley C. Barnswell and was uncredited. Houseman always plays a stodgy old Englishman so I was very surprised to find out he was born in Romania in 1902. He was raised and educated in England.

In 1925, he moved to New York City and began working in theater. He was also a founding member of the Mercury Theatre. During the Great Depression, he worked for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) financed the Federal Theater Project. He was the producer of the “Cradle Will Rock” with Orson Welles and known leftists Howard Da Silva and Will Geer. Grandpa, say it ain’t so. Tim Robbins directed a movie version Cradle Will Rock (1999) which had more stars than I can name here. It is really worth a watch.

Houseman directed more plays and went to work for the US government during World War II on the Voice of America. Following the war, he directed and produced Julius Caesar (1953), the one with Marlon Brando. He was a producer on a lot of films, and television shows, such as Lust for Life (1956), Executive Suite (1954), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Holiday for Sinners (1952), On Dangerous Ground (1951), They Live by Night (1948), and The Blue Dahlia (1946).

Houseman devoted much of his life to teaching and even help formed the acting school at the Julliard School for the Arts. He played the stern law professor in The Paper Chase (1973) and won an Oscar. His talents were in high demand as a supporting actor. Houseman died in 1988 at the age of 86.

Ava Gardner played the role of Eleanor Holbrook. Gardner was born in 1922 in the mighty metropolis of Grabtown, North Carolina. This hometown beauty gained a love of going barefoot being raised on a tobacco farm. When Ava was 18, someone noticed a picture of her in her brother-in-law’s photography studio. On the strength of just her looks, she was given a contract with MGM.

Since Gardner had no previous acting experience, the 17 films she made between 1942 and 1945 were one-liners and small parts. Ava was then cast in Whistle Stop (1946), a B-movie drama with George Raft. Next, she was loaned to Universal and starred in one of the best Film-Noirs ever, The Killers (1946), with Burt Lancaster .

Although she remained under contract to MGM for 17 years, a lot of her best work was when she was loaned to other studios for movies like Mogambo (1953) and Bhowani Junction (1956). She made many quality movies such as The Sun Also Rises (1957) with an aging Errol Flynn, the sci-fi On the Beach (1959), 55 Days at Peking (1963), Seven Days in May (1964), and The Night of the Iguana (1964).

Living in Europe, she made a few films just for the money such as The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), and disaster flicks Earthquake (1974) and The Cassandra Crossing (1976). This beautiful and talented actress died early at the age of 67 in 1990.

Richard Anderson played the role of Col. Murdock. Anderson did some acting before his time in the Army. After he was discharged, he worked in summer stock and radio. He was eventually signed with MGM and was in some important movies such as Forbidden Planet (1956) , Paths of Glory (1957), The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959), Seven Days in May (1964), and Tora, Tora, Tora (1970), which is much better than Pearl Harbor (2001). However, he was a strong television actor. He was a regular on the last year of “Perry Mason” 1959, and The Fugitive 1964-1967.  However, to most of us, he will always be Oscar from “The Six Million Dollar Man” 1974-1978 and on “The Bionic Woman” 1976-1978. Anderson is currently age 90.

Story – Seven Days in May (1964)

The movie credits roll showing the articles of the Constitution .

Monday, May 12

Two groups of picketers are outside of the White House. One group is strongly against President Jordan Lyman and the other is for peace and a non-nuclear world. The former group is carrying signs that say elected Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff four-star Air Force General, James Mattoon Scott ( Burt Lancaster ). If you need a mnemonic for general ranks it is “be my love general” – which means 1-star Brigadier General, 2-stars Major General, 3-stars Lieutenant General, 4-stars just General, and 5-stars General of the Army. There will be a test later.

One of the anti-Lyman protestors attacks the “Peace on Earth” sign and a huge fight breaks out between the two groups. The Capitol Police have to come in and break it up. Inside the White House, the President’s popularity is shown to be 29%. His doctor is examining him while his aide Paul Girard (Martin Balsam) is working. The President is trying to stop a nationwide strike. His doctor wants him to take a vacation but the President says he will swim in the White House pool.

Senator Raymond Clark, D-Ga. ( Edmond O’Brien ) comes in to join the president. They mention that the VP is out of the country. Clark explains that the USA and the USSR will dismantle their atomic bombs as a result of the treaty. Lyman explains why we must have the treaty, so the world is not destroyed. He also advises the Senator to lay off on the booze.

General Scott is testifying in front of a Senate committee. General Scott is explaining why the treaty is a bad idea when Senator Frederick Prentice, R-Calif. ( Whit Bissell ) and Senator Clark gets into a verbal spat. General Scott is flanked by his two aides, Colonel Martin “Jiggs” Casey, USMC ( Kirk Douglas ), and Col. Murdock (Richard Anderson).

Jiggs is devoted to General Scott. On the way back to the Pentagon, General Scott tells Jiggs that no one on Capitol Hill or in the press corps must find out about the alert scheduled for Sunday, May 18. The General says this “one must be deep and dark, right down the line.”

Back at the Pentagon, Jiggs receives a top-secret communication that was sent out early in the morning to all the key military commanders in the US military asking for their Preakness Stakes bets, the race being run on Sunday, May 18. Of the major commanders that were sent the message, only Vice-Admiral Farley C. Barnswell USN (John Houseman), ComSixthFleet says he will not bet.

Jiggs goes back to his office and finds Colonel William “Mutt” Henderson USA (Andrew Duggan) is waiting. When Jiggs asks where he is stationed, Mutt replies, you know already, I’m exec at EComCon, Site Y. Jiggs is totally in the dark but he gets more information out of Mutt. He finds out it is near El Paso and is commanded by Colonel John Broderick (John Larkin) who is in town to brief General Scott. Jiggs says Broderick is a bit of a Nazi. Jiggs also finds out that they have 100 officers and 3600 enlisted men training for seizure and not protection.

Colonel Murdock comes in and warns Jiggs not to mention the alert. When Jiggs brings up the Preakness bet, Murdock becomes very angry saying it is the general’s personal business. After Murdock leaves Jiggs calls the operator and asks if there is a list for EComCon and there is not.

Later that night, Jiggs goes to a party. He is accosted by Girad who wants to know why the General was so high and mighty at the Senate hearing. Senator Prentice steps into the conversation and gives Jiggs some relief. But he gets drawn back in. Jiggs avoids answering questions about how he feels about the treaty. When Jiggs goes into the other room, he runs into the general’s former mistress Eleanor “Ellie” Holbrook (Ava Gardner). She makes an odd foreshadowing comment for Jiggs to make sure the General rests on the 7 th day. She is talking loud and Jiggs takes her aside and calms her down and tells her that when she is sober she is great to have around. She then asks him to drive her home and he agrees. Before he gets out Senator Prentice tells him he works for the only man that can get us out of this trouble and he needs to stay “Alert” especially on Sunday.

Jiggs has to dump Ellie to go to Fort Myer to see the General. When he gets there he sees Senator Prentice going into the house.

Tuesday, May 13

When Jiggs comes into the office Col. Broderick is in with General Scott. When Broderick comes out he starts goading Jiggs about his liberal views. Jiggs handles it and goes to see the General. Jiggs and the General go over films from the last alert and the results are not good as everyone is moving too slow.

The General lies to Jiggs about what time he went to bed. He tells Jiggs to stay close so they can meet after the General’s meeting. The General also tells Jiggs not to mention the Preakness or the fact that Admiral Barnswell refused. Jiggs notices that the Navy was not at the meeting. He picks up a crumpled piece of paper from Chief of Staff of the Air Force General Hardesty and it reads “Airlift EComCon 40 K212s to Site Y before 0700 Sunday. Chi, New York, LA, Utah.”

Outside Jiggs is flagged down by the Ensign that told him about the Preakness. He is being transferred to Pearl Harbor which he sees as a reward. The ensign says all of the other military leaders came through with their Preakness bets.

Television host and real sunshine patriot, Harold McPherson ( Hugh Marlowe ) introduces General Scott and everything goes like a political rally. Jiggs is shocked by what he sees on television. Although it hurts him, he calls the White House.

Jiggs lays out the slight bit of evidence he has before the president. The nuclear football guy is always by the president. The President’s aide Girard is there as well. Jiggs says that EComCon might mean Emergency Communication Control. General Scott has asked the President to watch the alert without Press, Congress is in recess, and the VP is out of the country. Jiggs has to say that he thinks General Scott is planning a coup for Sunday, May, 18 th . Girard does not believe it. When Jiggs leaves, they bring in Bill Condon from the Bureau of the Budget. The President assembles a team like you should do when you’re under attack, consisting of Art Corwin from Secret Service, Secretary of Treasury Chris Todd (George Macready), Senator Clark, and later Jiggs.

Wednesday, May 14

Todd doesn’t believe it because no one has authorized the funding. The President because his hide is on the line takes it a little more seriously. Art Corwin has to shadow the Joint Chiefs, Chris Todd will coordinate from the White House, Senator Clark is to go to El Paso to find the base. Girard is sent to Gibraltar to get information from Adm. Barnswell who it seems has refused to join the plot. Jiggs is sent to spy on General Scott.

Back at the Pentagon office, General Scott catches Jiggs looking up El Paso on the map. The General feels Jiggs out on his opinion of the treaty and what they should do. He then gives him 72 hours-leave and insists that he leave immediately.

Jiggs meets Senator Clark at Dulles Airport. Before Clark leaves, he asks Jiggs to go see Ellie and see if there is any information on General Scott. Jiggs is sick with himself having to do that dirty work. While getting in his car, Jiggs see Harold MacPherson getting into General Scott’s staff car. Jiggs and the Secret Service driver follow. In a dark alley by the Dobney Hotel, MacPherson goes to meet Senator Prentice. General Scott is there and almost catches Jiggs in the parking garage.

Thursday, May 15

The President says he will not participate in the alert on Sunday and will be going to his private retreat at Blue Lake for some fishing. Scott calls Broderick at Site Y in El Paso. Senator Clark is in a small café outside Site Y. There is a girl (Colette Jackson) hanging around the café. She wonders why there are no men coming from the base when planes are going in and out day and night. She says it is about 50-miles away.

Senator Clark follows the instructions until he finds a dirt road to turn onto. A helicopter zooms in and lands by his car. An armed guard comes out of the helicopter.

Girard makes it to the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, that Barnswell uses for his flagship. Girard brings up betting, horse racing, and finally the Preakness. Girard forces him to make a written statement about the plot.

Jiggs shows up at Ellie’s apartment unannounced. Ellie knows that Jiggs is not there to see her. Jiggs kisses her and she asks that he not complicate her life. He kisses her harder.

Girard leaves the ship and phones that he has the confession. Girard hides the note in a cigarette case that was given to him by the President. He then jumps a commercial jet out of Madrid.

Back at Ellie’s house, Jiggs gets Ellie to talk about her feelings for the General. She mentioned that General Scott was a very careful man who never really cared about her. She tells him that he wrote her incriminating love letters. Jiggs picks up the letters while Ellie is out of the room. She walks in and catches him. She thinks Jiggs is doing this to help General Scott out. She is furious and says that Jiggs is always ready to clean the General’s privy before she slaps him.

Friday, May 16

The Secret Service shows a film to the President, Chris Todd, and Jiggs of the Colonels Murdock and Broderick reckoning the President’s home at Blue Lake. Todd is really taken by Ellie’s letters. But Jiggs is still sensitive. The President stops the argument and commends Jiggs for doing the distasteful work. He says he believes they are on top of it, just as the secretary brings in the word the Girard is dead as the plane has crashed.

Senator Clark is being held at Site Y and calls Senator Prentice and is told that they were made aware of the base. Col. Broderick opens a fifth of booze and leaves it in the locked room with the Senator. Clark sees that Girard has been killed in a plane crash and pours the hooch down the drain.

A man from the US Embassy goes to the crash site to look for evidence. The smashed cigarette case is laying on the ground but it will take time to find it.

Back at Site Y, there are two fresh bottles on the night table. Col. Henderson comes in to see the Senator. Clark tells Henderson about Jiggs not knowing about EComCon and that no references were in the JCS orders. Clark says he is going to tell “the damndest story you ever heard.” Henderson decides to get the Senator off the base. But Henderson is betrayed by one of Rodrick’s goose-steppers and the pair are stopped on the flight line by a sergeant. Henderson is driving a super cool tracked dune buggy with a 50 caliber machine gun mounted on the top. Henderson beats the crap out of the sergeant and escapes.

 Saturday, May 17

Henderson and the senator make it back to Dulles airport in Washington just fine.  Senator Clark steps into a phone booth, that’s like an iPhone attached to the wall and calls the White House.  When he turns around Henderson has vanished.

The President finds out Col. Henderson is being held in the stockade at Fort Myer anonymously.

The President contacts Adm. Barnswell, but with the evidence presumably destroyed in the plane crash, Barnswell denies ever having signed a document.

Chris Todd wants the President to fire the conspirators. The President lashes out that he has no proof. Senator Clarks suggests that he use the letters Jiggs obtained. The President does not want to go to the bottom of the barrel even though he only has 24 hours left.

Scott is back at his command center rehearsing taking over communications when another conspirator, tells him that General Barney Rutkowski, has found out about the transports flying to unauthorized destinations. They suspect that Rutkowski will report directly to the President.

Rutkowski does report to the President and also lets him know that the next flight of transports has been changed from 7 am on Sunday to 11 pm on Saturday. The President orders all of the transports to be grounded.

The President orders General Scott to the White House. The two men meet without a witness. The President confronts Scott with all of the evidence about EComCon. The President demands the resignation of Scott and all of the other leading traitors. The two men verbally spar to no avail. The President gives a lecture on using the Constitution and not usurping power. The President pulls out the letters from Ellie but decides not to use them. The President then demands the resignation of the officers or he will announce it at a press conference in the morning.

When Gen. Scott walks out he sees Jiggs and realizes he has been working for the President. The General walks out without a word. The President gives Jiggs the letters to take back to Ellie.

Sunday, May 18

Scott has decided to record a broadcast that will be aired at 9 pm Sunday night. The other generals are starting to waiver because the plan has fallen apart. Scott leaves for the studio so he can record his broadcast.

The President interrupts the Preakness Horse Race to deliver his press conference. Secretary of Treasury Todd comes out and stops the press conference. Someone from the embassy in Madrid has arrived with the confession written by Adm. Barnswell. The President orders copies sent to Gen. Scott and the other.

When Jiggs gives the letter to Gen. Scott, Scott calls him a nightcrawler and then demands to know if Jiggs knows who Judas was. Jiggs is ordered to answer and says Judas was “a man I worked for and admired until he disgraced the four stars on his uniform.”

The press conference resumes and the President announces his request for resignation. At the television studio, Senator Prentice and Mr. McPherson are panicked by the President’s announcement. Scott rudely dismisses the two.  McPherson won’t let him record his statement. Scott goes back to his HQ and thinks the other generals will stand by him. But before Scott can get back he sees that the three other generals have resigned. Scott gets in his staff car and asks to be taken home.

Jiggs shows up at Ellie’s house to give her back the letters. She asks if the letters were the bullets and Jiggs replies that they might have been. Jiggs asks if he can see Ellie in the future. She agrees.

The President says it is slanderous to say that the US can’t be strong without making war and that peace is the best course. The movie ends by showing the Constitution.

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Seven Days in May Reviews

• 73   Metascore
• 1 hr 58 mins
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Military brass conspire at top levels to overthrow the president, but a whistleblowing colonel uncovers the coup. Written by Rod Serling of "Twilight Zone" fame.

The surprising revelations of the Iran-Contra scandal have given new meaning to this gripping, well-acted political thriller based on Charles Waldo Bailey II's and Fletcher Knebel's 1962 best-seller. SEVEN DAYS IN MAY begins as the President of the United States, Jordan Lyman (Fredric March), signs a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviets, outraging the military establishment, particularly Gen. James M. Scott (Burt Lancaster), head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who conspires with other Joint Chiefs to stage a coup d'etat. His aide, Marine Col. "Jiggs" Casey (Kirk Douglas), stumbles onto evidence of the plot, including a secret Air Force base, and approaches the president. With only days left before the coup is to take place, Lyman swings into action, but trusted friends Sen. Raymond Clark (Edmond O'Brien) and Paul Girard (Martin Balsam), whom the president has sent to secure the proof needed to expose Scott and his cohorts, are captured and killed in a plane crash, respectively. Armed with incriminating letters from Scott's former mistress (Ava Gardner), Lyman confronts the general, and though the president cannot bring himself to use blackmail he eventually triumphs over Scott. Filmed in stark black and white, unraveling its complicated plot at a rapid clip, this exciting film from John Frankenheimer, the director of the similarly taut THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, packs a grim warning about the military's potential abuse of power. Douglas, who, like Lancaster and March, contributes an outstanding performance, initiated the project after reading galleys of the novel. Given the enthusiastic cooperation of the Kennedy administration (though not of the Pentagon, whom the filmmakers understandably never approached), SEVEN DAYS IN MAY smacks of realism, from its skillfully realized sets to its wholly believable supporting performances by O'Brien, Balsam, and John Houseman. Sure to keep you on the edge of your seat.

Seven Days in May

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“The writer’s role is to menace the public’s conscience,” Rod Serling, the adaptor of Seven Days in May , addressed the Congress in 1968. “He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism…”*

Serling’s vehicle was a bulldozer, through which he endeavored to level the systems built to steal and control; then he jumped out to flip over whatever tables hadn’t been flattened already. In the company of the “angry young men” of the 1950s U.S. theatre scene, Serling out-raged them all; he was the united states of indignation, a patriot, critic, moralist and egotist. His personally assigned role as the lone voice in the wilderness was at turns sanctimonious and earnest, and it still carries.

“Quite honestly, I don’t think this movie could be made today,” Director John Frankenheimer speculates in the commentary, recorded in 1999. “I think all the values in the country have changed so drastically since the days of President Kennedy…in recent years, the way the office of the presidency has been debased – I don’t think that the public would accept a President as idealistic.” Frankenheimer died just before he was proven wrong. The West Wing (1999-2006) featured not only an idealistic president, but also a Serlingian style. The show was received with a surge of recognition, even relief, and when its creator, Aaron Sorkin, was asked if he could add any one writer to his staff, his answer was Rod Serling. So perhaps that lone voice is one we still need to hear.

Insupportable Negligence

In the near future of 1970, a President, Jordan Lyman (Fredric March), is once again declaring the end of a war, this time a Cold one, cracked open and passed between Americans and Soviets for over 20 years. The mean justifying this end is a nuclear disarmament treaty to be signed by both nations and characterized by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Scott (Burt Lancaster) as “insupportable negligence.”

“It was a time of tremendous tension, of tremendous fear in our country,” Frankenheimer recollects. “We’d just come out of the whole horror of McCarthyism…We were engaged in a real cold war with the Soviet Union…there was tremendous fear we were all going to be annihilated…There was [sic] a great many Americans who agreed with the philosophy put forth by General Scott…we tried to present him as a sane, but dangerous, antagonist.”

The Idolatry of Heroism

But General Scott wasn’t an antagonist to Serling and Frankenheimer, who served in the Army and Air Force, respectively. “The enemy is an age,” President Lyman philosophizes, “a nuclear age. It happens to have killed man’s faith in his ability to influence what happens to him. And out of this comes a sickness, a sickness of frustration, a feeling of impotence, helplessness, weakness. And from this, this desperation, we look for a Champion in red, white and blue. Every now and then a man on a white horse rides by, and we appoint him to be our personal god for the duration.”

It’s a searing speech, Serling’s lightning called down upon the idolatry of heroism, a notion that, as Walter Brueggemann articulates, “we can live outside history as self-made men and women.” Yet throughout the script, for every strike against the Military Industrial Complex, there is a counterstrike against Liberal Pacifism. And yes, one strikes out in the story, because Serling had a point of view – but it was through a wide-angle lens, which makes Frankenheimer a perfect match for him.

Forcing Perspective

“Every shot I do forces perspective,” confesses Frankenheimer. “And I’ve done that my entire career. It’s just something that is inherent in the way I tell a story. I think it puts you into the film.”

To a degree this sensibility can be explained by Frankenheimer’s directorial training during TV’s brief ascension to the summit of drama in the mid-‘50s, when teleplays were “the biggest sociological game in town”*** and Serling wrote some of the best. Each man’s work pointed to the other’s, in a Chinese finger trap of tight, tense storytelling .

Condition for Continued Existence

Enhancing the film’s immediacy was its unprecedented access to the White House, due to fans of the original novel in President Kennedy and his administration. That production trivia became a bittersweet memory after November 22, 1963. In a documentary Serling was summoned to create, which introduced the world to Kennedy’s successor, a then-unknown Lyndon B. Johnson, he wrote:

To the Leftists and the Rightists, to the Absolutists, to the men of little faith but strong hate, and to all of us who have helped plant this ugly and loathsome seed that blossomed forth in Dallas last Friday – this is the only dictum we can heed now. For civilization to survive it must remain civilized. And if there is to be any hope for our children and theirs – we must never again allow violence to offer itself as an excuse for our insecurities, our own weaknesses and our own fears. This is not an arguable doctrine for simply a better life. It is a condition for our continued existence.

Such writing is only sanctimonious in that it claims something is sacred. It is only abstract in that we refuse to practice it. And it is as simple and complex as Colonel Jiggs says near the beginning of May : “Do your duty and…ask for divine guidance.”

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*For this, and further information and insights, I am indebted to Gordon F. Sanders’ extensively researched and sharply written biography, Serling: The Rise and Twilight of Television’s Last Angry Man .

**See The Birthday Party , The Iceman Cometh , The Boys in The Band. These were not film adaptations, they were film incarnations – each possessed by the play it was charged to interpret.

***Andrew Sarris, Dimensions .

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This and Fail-Safe , released the same year, are the classic Cold War dramas ( Dr. Strangelove being the best—and only—Cold War comedy ). This one is the better of the two, I think, though it doesn’t really involve the threat of nuclear annihilation. The idea of a military takeover of the US government is scary enough for me, and of course it would be done by just the sort of steely-eyed “patriot” Burt Lancaster so brilliantly portrays here. Kirk Douglas and Fredric March and Edmond O’Brian and Ava Gardner are all good, but it’s Burt’s picture. An excellent script by Rod Serling and direction by John Frankenheimer make Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey’s novel so plausible it could give you nightmares, because you know there are guys just like James Matoon Scott lurking in the endless halls of the Pentagon, who would just love to bring down this president.

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Released in 1964, Seven Days in May is a gripping political thriller that continues to captivate audiences with its intense storyline and stellar performances. Directed by John Frankenheimer, this film delves into the realm of political intrigue and power struggles, set against the backdrop of the Cold War era. As we unravel the 35 fascinating facts about this cinematic masterpiece, we'll gain a deeper understanding of the film's impact and legacy. From the compelling narrative to the remarkable cast, Seven Days in May remains a timeless classic that has left an indelible mark on the world of cinema. Join us as we embark on a journey to explore the intriguing facets of this iconic movie.

Key Takeaways:

• Seven Days in May” is a gripping political thriller from 1964 , exploring power struggles and loyalty in the U.S. government during the Cold War, leaving a lasting impact on audiences and sparking discussions on political and ethical issues.
• The film’s enduring relevance and thought-provoking narrative continue to captivate and inspire audiences, shedding light on the complexities of power, morality, and political intrigue, making it a timeless classic in the political thriller genre.

35 Facts about the movie Seven Days in May

Seven Days in May is a gripping political thriller released in 1964, directed by John Frankenheimer. The film features an all-star cast, including Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Ava Gardner, and delves into the tension and power struggle within the U.S. government. Here are 35 intriguing facts about this captivating cinematic masterpiece:

The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II.

The screenplay was written by rod serling, best known for creating and narrating the iconic television series the twilight zone., seven days in may was nominated for two academy awards., the storyline revolves around an attempted military coup in the united states., the film is set in the midst of the cold war, reflecting the prevalent fear and paranoia of the era., burt lancaster portrays general james mattoon scott, a high-ranking military officer at the center of the conspiracy., kirk douglas plays the role of colonel martin "jiggs" casey, a key figure who uncovers the treasonous plot., ava gardner's character, eleanor holbrook, adds a layer of complexity and intrigue to the narrative., the movie provides a thought-provoking exploration of the balance of power between the military and the civilian government., seven days in may was released during a period of heightened political tension, adding to its relevance and impact., the film's tense and suspenseful atmosphere keeps viewers on the edge of their seats throughout., the movie's themes of loyalty, patriotism, and the potential abuse of power remain deeply resonant., the intense performances by the cast contribute to the film's enduring legacy., seven days in may offers a compelling glimpse into the inner workings of government and the military., the film's thought-provoking narrative continues to captivate audiences and critics alike., john frankenheimer's masterful direction brings the complex story to life on the silver screen., the movie's cinematography and visual elements enhance the dramatic impact of the storyline., seven days in may stands as a timeless classic in the political thriller genre., the film's exploration of political intrigue and conspiracy remains as relevant today as it was upon its release., the movie's enduring legacy is a testament to its compelling storytelling and powerful performances., seven days in may serves as a poignant reminder of the delicate balance of power in the realm of politics and national security., the film's impact extends beyond entertainment, sparking discussions on critical political and ethical issues., the movie's portrayal of governmental turmoil and moral dilemmas provides a thought-provoking viewing experience., seven days in may continues to be studied and analyzed for its historical and cultural significance., the film's enduring relevance underscores its status as a cinematic masterpiece., seven days in may has left an indelible mark on the political thriller genre and continues to inspire filmmakers and audiences., the movie's exploration of power dynamics and moral ambiguity resonates with viewers across generations., seven days in may remains a compelling and relevant cinematic work that invites introspection and discussion., the film's impact on popular culture and political discourse is a testament to its enduring relevance., seven days in may stands as a timeless and thought-provoking cinematic achievement that continues to captivate and provoke contemplation., the movie's exploration of power, loyalty, and betrayal offers a compelling and immersive viewing experience., seven days in may is a testament to the enduring power of storytelling in shedding light on complex political and ethical dilemmas., the film's themes and narrative continue to resonate with audiences, cementing its status as a timeless classic., seven days in may remains a compelling and thought-provoking cinematic work that invites reflection on the complexities of power and morality..

Seven Days in May remains a captivating and thought-provoking film that continues to resonate with audiences, offering a timeless exploration of power, loyalty, and the intricate dynamics of political intrigue.

In conclusion, "Seven Days in May" is a timeless political thriller that continues to captivate audiences with its gripping storyline, stellar performances , and thought-provoking themes. The film's exploration of power struggles, loyalty, and the fragility of democracy resonates deeply, making it a must-watch for both classic movie enthusiasts and those interested in political dramas. With its enduring relevance and masterful execution, "Seven Days in May" remains a cinematic gem that stands the test of time.

What makes "Seven Days in May" a significant film? "Seven Days in May" is significant due to its compelling portrayal of political intrigue and the potential threat to democratic institutions. The film's exploration of power dynamics and ethical dilemmas continues to resonate with audiences, elevating its status as a timeless classic.

Are there any notable performances in "Seven Days in May"? Yes, the film features outstanding performances by acclaimed actors such as Burt Lancaster , Kirk Douglas, and Ava Gardner. Their compelling portrayals contribute to the film's enduring impact and make it a standout in the realm of political thrillers.

If you're fascinated by the gripping world of political thrillers, don't miss our deep dive into another John Frankenheimer masterpiece , "The Manchurian Candidate." Uncover the chilling history behind Augusto Pinochet's military coup in Chile. Lastly, journey back to the tense era of the Cold War and explore the intriguing facts surrounding Nike missiles.

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