Seven Days in May

Director: John Frankenheimer John Frankenheimer

Overview

In this film, General James M. Scott, convinced that liberal President Jordan Lyman 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.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/22/2016
UPC:	0888574454029
Original Release:	1964
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Archives
Presentation:	[B&W, Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:58:00
Sales rank:	5,005

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

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
Andrew Duggan	Col. `Mutt' Henderson
John Houseman	Adm. Barnswell
Hugh Marlowe	Harold McPherson
Bart Burns	Arthur Corwin
Richard Anderson	Col. Murdock
Jack Mullaney	Lt. Hough
John Larkin	Col. Broderick
Malcolm Atterbury	White House Physician
Helen Kleeb	Esther Townsend
Colette Jackson	Bar Girl
Fredd Wayne	Actor
Rodolfo Hoyos Jr.	Actor
Clegg Hoyt	Actor
Victor Buono	Bit
Jerry Goldsmith	Composer

Technical Credits

Rod Serling

John Frankenheimer	Director
Edward Lewis	Producer
Rod Serling	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

After his 1962 breakthrough with the political thriller The Manchurian Candidate, director John Frankenheimer cemented his reputation as a paranoia filmmaker with Seven Days in May. Though the assassination of John F. Kennedy happened around the time of the film's release, Seven Days remained ahead of its time, as the conspiracy-film genre wouldn't fully flourish until the 1970s. The determinedly realistic screenplay was written by Rod Serling, who was also responsible for the television series The Twilight Zone, as well as the scripts for Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) and Planet of the Apes (1968). Burt Lancaster made five films with Frankenheimer in the 1960s, and Seven Days added to his string of hits.