Seven Days in May |  | Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  73 reviews
Format: Black & White, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 118 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 0.5
MPN: WARD15243D
ISBN: 0790748088
UPC: 085391524328
EAN: 9780790748085
Theatrical Release Date: February 12, 1964
Release Date: May 16, 2000
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Product Description
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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 A Timeless Thriller November 8, 2009
L. Cabos (planet earth)
From John Frankenheimer and Rod Serling comes an edge of your seat political thriller from the height of the Cold War. Great performances by Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Eva Gardner, Frederic March, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam and Andrew Duggan. A classic struggle between patriotism and duty. Douglas find his Col. Casey in the middle. No special features, ws, b&w.
Drama of the Highest Order May 18, 2009
A Reader
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It rarely gets better than this. The cast is stellar, near unbelievable: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Frederic March, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam AND Ava Gardner - with John Houseman, Andrew Duggan and Hugh Marlowe in supporting roles. John Frankenheimer's direction, in black and white, captures the Cold War era in a remarkable way. If that is not enough, the script, by Rod Serling, is literate and crackles. This is a thinking person's film - could there be a military plot to overthrow the government? In the film, the dispute is between a pro-nuclear disarmament President (March) and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs (Lancaster). You do not have to be sympathetic with the apparent politics of the film in order to enjoy this - the twists and tensions are terrific. It may very well be that they do not make movies like this anymore - if bang-bang special effects are what you are looking for, this is not it. If gold-plated dialogue, great actors and a serious subject for thought are what you are looking for, you could hardly do better than Seven Days in May, certainly among the great films of the post - WW II era.
JFK assassination March 28, 2009
Gary L. Story (Tujunga, CA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
JFK knew about this film as it was being filmed which concerns a military coup. It was release after the real military coup which took JFK's life.
 DVD - Military Take Over March 3, 2009
MEJ1 (Saginaw, Texas, USA)
An excellent review of what Military banch trys to take over executive branch. Black and White Start Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas ---- I worn out 3 rd of copy......
3 stars out of 4 December 27, 2008
One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
The Bottom Line:
Though the movie suffers a bit when Lancaster is offscreen and the viewer never gets the impression that the situation is dire enough for a coup, Seven Days in May is a decent political thriller.
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