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| Director(s) | John Frankenheimer |
| Producer(s) | Edward Lewis |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation, Romance, Thriller/Suspense, War |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Cold War |
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Seven Days in May Overview:
Seven Days in May (1964) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by John Frankenheimer and produced by Edward Lewis.
Academy Awards 1964 --- Ceremony Number 37 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Supporting Actor | Edmond O'Brien | Nominated |
| Best Art Direction | Art Direction: Cary Odell; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle | Nominated |
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Seven Days in May (1964): A Twilight Zone America Strikes Close to Home
By 4 Star Film Fan on Aug 24, 2021 From 4 Star Films
The opening images of Seven Days in May could have easily been pulled out of the headlines. A silent protest continues outside the White House gates with hosts of signs decrying the incumbent president or at the very least the state of his America.? We don’t quite know his egregious act althou... Read full article
Seven Days in May (1964, John Frankenheimer)
By Andrew Wickliffe on Dec 23, 2018 From The Stop Button
Screenwriter Rod Serling really likes to employ monologues in Seven Days in May. John Frankenheimer likes to direct them too. And the actors like to give them. Because they?re good monologues. The monologues give all then actors fantastic material. Everyone except George Macready, who isn?t the righ... Read full article
Seven Days in May (1964)
By Beatrice on Jun 9, 2018 From Flickers in Time
Seven Days in MayDirected by John FrankenheimerWritten by Rod Sterling from a novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II1964/USAJoel Productions/Seven Arts ProductionsRepeat viewing/FilmStruck I expected more suspense in a conspiracy theory film from John Frankenheimer. In the not so dis... Read full article
Warner Archive Blu-ray: March, Lancaster, Douglas and Gardner in Seven Days in May (1964)
By KC on Jul 6, 2017 From Classic Movies
Seven Days in May (1964) was director John Frankenheimer's follow-up to The Manchurian Candidate (1962), meant to be another unsettling portrait of power and politics. Given today's political climate though, it is striking how relatively sane everyone seems in this story of an attempted military tak... Read full article
Seven Days in May – part 5
By Tom on Feb 8, 2012 From The Old Movie House
In part 4 I had a section called “ One Liners and Small Roles”. With the exception of Richard Anderson Malcolm Atterbury and John Larkin were just two of the 10 actors who appeared in the film but were not given any screen credits. Other actors who appeared in the film but did not receiv... Read full article
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[a terse note refers to "Site Y"]
Christopher Todd:That could easily mean another place. These military games... why, the multiplicity of our secret bases confuses ourselves more than the Soviets.
President Jordan Lyman:I know what Scott's attitude on the treaty is, what's yours?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey:I agree with General Scott, sir. I think we're being played for suckers. I think it's really your business. Yours and the Senate. You did it, and they agreed so, well, I don't see how we in the military can question it. I mean we can question it, but we can't fight it. We shouldn't, anyway.
President Jordan Lyman:Jiggs, isn't it? Isn't that what they call you?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey:Yes sir.
President Jordan Lyman:So you, ah, you stand by the Constitution, Jiggs?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey:I never thought of it just like that, Mr. President, but, well, that's what we got and I guess it's worked pretty well so far. I sure don't want to be the one to say we ought to change it.
President Jordan Lyman:Neither do I.
President Jordan Lyman:You ever been up here before?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey:It's a big room.
President Jordan Lyman:[Sarcastically] Too big for living and too small for a convention.
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Facts about
Fifth of seven films that Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster made together.
An important plot point in the film involves the attempted coup taking place on the same day as the Preakness Stakes horse race. However, the seven-day timeline for the film would have had the coup taking place on Sunday while the Preakness is always run on a Saturday. John Frankenheimer said that the problem was solved by a scriptwriting acquaintance of his. This man worked as a script doctor and liked to gamble but wagered his professional services instead of money. Frankenheimer had won some work from the man and gave him the problem. The solution? In one scene a character walks by a poster which says "First Ever Sunday Running of the Preakness".
Some film reference works (e.g., the multivolume set, "The Motion Picture Guide") incorrectly list Jack Mullaney's character as "Lt. Hough". "Hough" is the last name of this character in the novel upon which the film is based.
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