Located outside El Paso, neither Jiggs nor the congressional budget office has ever heard of the mysterious base. 'Mutt' Henderson (Andrew Duggan), whose been assigned to a vast Army combat unit called ECOMCON. He has a chance encounter with an old friend, Col.

'Jiggs' Casey (Kirk Douglas), Director of the Joint Staff under Scott at the Pentagon. The first and best half of Seven Days in May follows the growing suspicions of Col. Allied with the other conservative Joint Chiefs of Staff excepting Vice Admiral Barnswell (John Houseman) and right wing members of Congress, Scott plots a coup d'état to forcibly remove President Lyman from office during a military exercise and to take control over the country's entire communications system. Four-star Air Force General James Mattoon Scott (Burt Lancaster) vehemently opposes an unpopular nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union, recently signed by liberal U.S. The setting is the near future, the early 1970s (clues to this include 1970 license plate tags, the use of teleconferencing, etc.). in 1967, most of its catalog moved there, hence this Blu-ray under the Warner Archive label. When the latter took control of Warner Bros. Though originally released by Paramount, Seven Days in May was a co-production among the indie companies of Frankenheimer, star Kirk Douglas, and Seven Arts. Bailey II, its story concerns the gradual realization by government officials that a military coup against the American President is but days away.

Adapted by Rod Serling from the novel by journalists Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Seven Days in May if Fletcher Knebels best know and most collectable book.Again timely as hell, John Frankenheimer's Seven Days in May (1964) is a political thriller less ingenious than his earlier The Manchurian Candidate (1962) but still very credible, suspenseful, and intelligent. There are multiple reprints of some titles making reading copies readily available. How to Get Justice Without Going to Courtīuy Books by Fletcher Knebel Fletcher Knebel Author Biography - Information About the Authorįletcher Knebel, born 1911 and died 1993, is a Hubin listed author.īook collectors shouldn't have too much trouble putting a full set of first edition boos together, without spending a fortune either. No British edition in British Library, or one found elsewhereīritish softcover reissue: Charter Books 1984 Subject of a movie with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglasīritish softcover first edition Corgi Books 1966 The inside story of the men who planned and dropped Fletcher Knebel Bibliography - A full list of First Edition Books Fletcher Knebel Bibliography US & UK First Edition Books in Order The following bibliography - Checklist contains the author's crime and mystery fiction books listed in order

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