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MMDan's avatar

MMDan

Burt Lancaster & Kirk Douglas!
2 years 11 months ago
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Jimbo Slice

Good movie...seems odd that it doesn't show up on any lists at all.
12 years 8 months ago
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allisoncm

This movie airs on TCM in the USA from time to time.
11 years 7 months ago
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Siskoid

Seven Days in May proposes an attempted military coup in the United States of a decade or two in the future, but it's really the contemporary 60s but for a couple of TV-phones. For the audiences of the time, this political thriller might have its controversies. At the height of the Cold War, any given audience member might think the peace-making president is foolish and the general is right (especially with Burt Lancaster in the role). For a post-Nixon, indeed, post-Trump audience, there's no real dilemma for Kirk Douglas' whistle-blowing colonel, is there? The president is too heroic, too ethical, for his positions to warrant a coup. So it's really more about uncovering the conspiracy, then putting a stop to it even though the people loyal to the general have covered their tracks pretty well. Conspiracies currently being the most tired of tropes, I found my attention straying through the first two acts, but the third, especially that confrontation between the two leaders, almost saves the entire enterprise. Almost, but for me, not quite.
4 years 11 months ago
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Fellini_Fiend87

@jlacovara Indeed. No idea why it's not.
12 years 6 months ago
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