# Seven Days in May (1964)

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**Runtime**: 118 min
**Genres**: Drama, Thriller
**Directed by**: John Frankenheimer
**Written by**: Rod Serling
**Starring**: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam

> *The astounding story of an astounding military plot to take over the United States! The time is 1970 or 1980 or, possibly, tomorrow!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Five-star red flag on the Capitol roof, October wind flapping it. A Marine colonel slides a single page across the Resolute Desk. Blank except the words “Operation May.” Generals nod at each other in mirror-lined war room. One fails to nod back. John Frankenheimer’s Cold War chess game ends before the pawns move.

**Mood tags**: paranoid

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