Seven Days in May
Director: John Frankenheimer
Year Released: 1964
Rating: 2.0
Burt Lancaster and his men plan a top-secret military coup de tat after President Fredric March makes an unpopular decision to disarm missiles during the Cold War; naturally, it's so top secret, even March doesn't know about it, leaving Kirk Douglas to do some major investigating (though torn between duty and honor ... or whatever it is he's torn by). Made just two years after The Manchurian Candidate, it hasn't a whiff of the tension or drama that made that film so memorable - the potential overthrow of our government is given a strangely aloof treatment.
