Seven Days in May - 1964 - Burt Lancaster

✅ The Story ...

The book was written in late 1961 and into early 1962 during the first year of the Kennedy administration, reflecting some of the events of that era.

In November 1961, President John F. Kennedy accepted the resignation of vociferously anti-communist general Edwin Walker, who had been indoctrinating the troops under his command with radical right-wing ideas and personal political opinions, including describing Harry S. Truman, Dean Acheson, Eleanor Roosevelt and other active public figures as communist sympathizers.

Although no longer in uniform, Walker continued to make headlines as he ran for governor of Texas and made speeches promoting strongly right-wing views. In the film version of Seven Days in May, Fredric March, portraying the narrative's fictional president Jordan Lyman, mentions General Walker as one of the "false prophets" who were offering themselves to the public as leaders.

As Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II, primarily political journalists and columnists collaborated on the novel, they also conducted interviews with another highly controversial military commander, the newly appointed Air Force chief of staff General Curtis LeMay, who was angry with Kennedy for refusing to provide air support for the Cuban rebels in the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

The character of General James Mattoon Scott was believed to have been inspired by both LeMay and Walker.[citation needed]

President Kennedy had read the novel Seven Days in May shortly after its publication and believed that the scenario could actually occur in the United States. According to director John Frankenheimer, the project received encouragement and assistance from Kennedy through White House press secretary Pierre Salinger, who conveyed to Frankenheimer Kennedy's wish that the film be produced.

The Story unfolds ...

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✅ Credits :

Directed by : John Frankenheimer
Screenplay by : Rod Serling
Based on : Seven Days in May (1962 novel) by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II
Produced by : Edward Lewis
Cinematography : Ellsworth Fredricks
Edited by : Ferris Webster
Music by : Jerry Goldsmith
Production Companies : Seven Arts Productions
Distributed by : Paramount Pictures
Release Dates : February 12, 1964

✅ Genre : #politicalmovies - #thrillermovies - #dramamovies

✅ Cast :

Burt Lancaster as US Air Force General James Mattoon Scott, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Kirk Douglas as USMC Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey
Fredric March as US President Jordan Lyman
Ava Gardner as Eleanor Holbrook
Edmond O'Brien as US Senator Ray Clark
Martin Balsam as Paul Girard, White House Chief of Staff
Andrew Duggan as Colonel "Mutt" Henderson, friend of Jiggs Casey
Hugh Marlowe as Harold McPherson, TV commentator who is one of the conspirators
Whit Bissell as US Senator Fred Prentice, another conspirator
Helen Kleeb as Esther Townsend, secretary to the president
George Macready as Chris Todd, Secretary of the Treasury
Richard Anderson as Colonel Ben Murdock, aid to Scott and a conspirator
Bart Burns as Art Corwin, head of Secret Service

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SOURCE : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_in_May

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