![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Director John Frankenheimer delivers an exceedingly, often excessively slow narrative that contains few captivating elements, although, having said that, it’s hard to deny the effectiveness of the movie’s various performances – with Douglas and Lancaster’s typically engrossing work matched by a strong supporting cast that includes Fredric March, Martin Balsam, and Edmond O’Brien. Bailey II, Seven Days in May follows Kirk Douglas’ Martin Casey as he becomes increasingly convinced that a decorated general (Burt Lancaster’s James Mattoon Scott) is planning a coup d’etat – with the story detailing Casey’s increasingly frantic efforts at proving his suspicions. Based on a novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. ![]()
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