Seven Days in May [VHS]

Seven Days in May [VHS]
by John Frankenheimer

Seven Days in May [VHS]

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Actor: Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Edmond O'Brien, Fredric March, Kirk Douglas
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cinematographer: Ellsworth Fredericks
Editor: Ferris Webster
Producer: Edward Lewis
Writer: Charles W. Bailey II
Writer: Fletcher Knebel
Writer: Rod Serling
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Running Time: 118 minutes
Release Date: 1995-03-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Studio: Warner Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of Seven Days in May [VHS]

Movie Review: best of the cold war thrillers
Summary: 5 Stars

I love many of the movies made about the cold war but this one has always been my favorite, even nudging out the Manchurian Candidate and Fail Safe. Well acted and a thoughtful look at attitudes common in that era.

Movie Review: Almost 50 years later, still an exciting movie
Summary: 4 Stars

It was pure fiction in 1963. Imagine, a hard-line general(Burt Lancaster)trying to overthrow the constitutional government of the United States. Almost science fiction, as a matter of fact. But after so many political and military crises, in American soil and abroad, dictatorship sprouting all over the world, "Seven Days in May" is as new today as ever. Even with the good guys (Kirk Douglas, Fredric March)fighting it ? la Hollywood.

Movie Review: Real life mirrored events: 1991 Russian coup
Summary: 5 Stars

I was saving newpaper accounts of the August 1991 coup over Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev as it was occuring and thought it had an eerie similarity to the events in "Seven days in May" in that a major world leader is kept hostage by his military at a remote location.

Historical hindsight has shown that most details don't match, but at the time if one had seen the film it was hard to deny a strange sense of D?j? vu.

As an aside, it was truly inspiring at the time to watch Boris Yeltsin standing defiantly on the tank (?) with a megaphone demanding the release of Gorbachev.

Creepy film, by the way, and well worth less than six dollars!

Movie Review: Fanatic vs Patriot
Summary: 5 Stars

This is one of my once a year movies. I watch this and a few others once every year because they are that good. The finest performance Kirk Douglas ever gave, and Lancaster, in real life an avid political liberal, portrays a fanatic military officer planning treason. Buy it, watch it and when your kids are old enough to understand it, have them watch it. The best scene? The confrontation at the pentagon hallway between Lancaster and Douglas near the end of the movie.

Movie Review: Seven Days In May (VHS movie 1964)
Summary: 4 Stars

Seven Days In May is one of my favorite films. I found the VHS tape purchased through Amazon to be of excellent, almost new condition. The price was right and delivery was on time without problems. If a similar need arises in the future, I would very likely purchase using Amazon. "Seven Days In May," (1964,) is a politcal thriller about an attempted military takeover of the US Government. It is somewhat dated, but very entertaining nevertheless. Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, who often worked together are at their very best.
Roy C Thomas

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Summary of Seven Days in May [VHS]

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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