Rating: NR
Genre: Thriller
Release Date: 05/16/2000
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: 5.1/1
Run Time: 118 Minutes
Flags: Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video

Adapted by Rod Serling from the best-selling novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles Waldo Bailey II, Seven Days in May was allegedly inspired by the far-right ramblings of one General Edwin Walker. Burt Lancaster plays General James M. Scott, who, convinced that liberal President Jordan Lyman (Fredric March) is soft on America's enemies, plots a military takeover of the United States. Every effort made by President Lyman to find concrete evidence of General Scott's scheme is scuttled by political protocol, human error and accidental death. Ultimately, Lyman must rely upon the man who first uncovered the plot: Colonel "Jiggs" Casey (Kirk Douglas). John Frankenheimer's terse direction and Ellsworth Fredericks' stark black and white photography enhance the "docudrama" feel of Seven Days in May.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Burt Lancaster - Gen. James M. Scott
Kirk Douglas - Col. Martin "Jiggs" Casey
Fredric March - President Jordan Lyman
Ava Gardner - Eleanor Holbrook
Edmond O'Brien - Sen. Raymond Clark
Martin Balsam - Paul Girard
George Macready - Christopher Todd
Whit Bissell - Sen. Prentice
Hugh Marlowe - Harold McPherson
Bart Burns - Arthur Corwin
Richard Anderson - Col. Murdock
Jack Mullaney - Lieutenant Hough
Andrew Duggan - Col. "Mutt" Henderson
John Larkin - Col. Broderick
Malcolm Atterbury - White House Physician
Helen Kleeb - Esther Townsend
John Houseman - Adm. Barnswell
Colette Jackson - Bar Girl

Production:
John Frankenheimer - Director
Kirk Douglas Edward Lewis - Producer
Jerry Goldsmith - Composer
Ferris Webster - Editor
Rod Serling - Screen Writer
Edward Boyle - Set Designer
Cary O'Dell - Art Director
Charles Waldo II Bailey - Book Author
Ellsworth Fredericks - Cinematographer
Wes Jeffries - Costume Designer
Art Jones - Makeup
David Grayson - Makeup
Fletcher Knebel - Book Author

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