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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304457399
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6304457391
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: June 17, 1997
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 13093
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 12, 1964
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
John Frankenheimer's follow-up to The Manchurian Candidate is as intimate and subdued as its predecessor is flamboyant and energetic. Burt Lancaster is calm and calculating as the steely-eyed military hawk General Scott, who opposes the president's (Fredric March) plan to end the cold war with a bold nuclear disarmament plan. Lancaster's longtime friend and frequent costar Kirk Douglas is his smiling, joking right-hand man, Colonel 'Jiggs' Casey, whose easygoing manner is jolted by evidence of a possible plot to overthrow the American government. Scripted by Rod Serling from the novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey, the film plays much like a classic live TV drama (the medium that spawned both Frankenheimer and Serling), with the drama arising from conversations and confrontations and the action largely limited to scenes within the Pentagon and the White House. An ominous undercurrent of danger seeps through the realistic (and often real) settings of the film, conveyed chiefly through the intensity of the excellent ensemble performances. Notable among the supporting cast are Ava Gardner as a lonely Washington socialite who was once the general's mistress, Edmond O'Brien as an amiable alcoholic senator, Martin Balsam as the president's shrewd but skeptical secretary, and underrated character actor George Macready as the wily presidential advisor. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 3 stars out of 4
The Bottom Line:
Though the movie suffers a bit when Lancaster is offscreen and the viewer never gets the impression that the situation is dire enough for a coup, Seven Days in May is a decent political thriller.
Rating:  - 7 days in may
excellent movie based on a best selling book. douglas and lancaster really relate to each other as to how the american military gets involved in the political system.
Rating: - Still works today
Some of the best actors in Hollywood are in this film, but the best performance, as far as I am concerned is by Burt Lancaster. When I read this book and saw the movie as a teenager, it scared me to death to think how easy it would have been to topple our government. I would highly recommend this movie for any age range, with the caveat that reading the book first would enhance the experience.
Rating: - Seven Days in May
Classic political science fiction. The book and the movie are favorites of mine. This is a must see. It could happen here.
Rating: - A meditation of democracy
There is much to like about "Seven Days in May" as others have noted. In this comment I focus on one long scene: the confrontation between President Jordan Lyman and General James Mattoon Scott.
It is a compelling dialogue about democracy. The general is full of himself, and realized effortlessly as only Burt Lancaster could do, an under-rated actor by all but Luchino Visconti. The beleaguered president, played with enormous conviction and depth by Frederich March, still has ... Read More
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