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Seven Days in May (1964); Let Us Continue (1964)

Seven Days in May (1964)
August 19, 2012 - 7:00 pm
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: 
"Rod Serling: Other Dimensions"

Seven Days in May (1964)

Directed by John Frankenheimer

In this tense Cold War thriller, the President of the United States (March) is targeted by a powerful Air Force general (Lancaster) after signing a controversial nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union. With a covert military coup imminent, only the suspicions of a lone colonel (Douglas) stand in the way of the catastrophic overthrow of the U.S. government.

Paramount Pictures. Producer: Edward Lewis. Screenwriter: Rod Serling. Cinematographer: Ellsworth Fredricks. Editor: Ferris Webster. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien.

35mm, b/w, 120 min.

Watch the trailer:

Preceded by:

Print courtesy of the Packard Humanities Institute Collection at the Academy Film Archive

Trailer for The Man (1972)

35mm, b/w, approx. 3 min.

Let Us Continue (1964)

The United States Information Agency commissioned this short, produced by Hearst Metrotone, in the wake of the Kennedy assassination in order to introduce allies to Lyndon B. Johnson’s positions on major issues. Controversy surrounded the production when it was leaked that the agency requested the deletion of the image of a rabbi in the film in order to avoid possible objections from Arab countries.

Screenplay: Rod Serling. Cast: E.G. Marshall.

Beta SP , b/w, 26 min.