Seven Days in May

Feature Film ~ Paramount ~ Released February 12, 1964 ~ 1 hour, 58 minutes

Credits ~

Writer ~ Rod Serling, adapted from the novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II

Director ~ John Frankenheimer

Cast ~ Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmund O’Brien, Martin Balsam, Richard Anderson

Story ~

In this political thriller set in the early 1970s, a Marine Corps colonel (Kirk Douglas) stumbles onto a plot, led by an Air Force general (Burt Lancaster), to stage a coup against an unpopular U.S. president (Fredric March) when the President signs a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union.

Photo Gallery ~

Scroll through the photo gallery below and enjoy scenes from Seven Days in May ~

Frederic March, as “President Jordan Lyman”

Burt Lancaster, as “Gen. James Scott”

George Macready, as “Christopher Todd” (center); Kirk Douglas, as “Col. Martin ‘Jiggs’ Casey” (in uniform); and Fredric March, as “President Jordan Lyman” (seated).