Watching Seven Days in May...

[WCGreen]

A great spell binder from the early sixties about a military coop.

You see there were right wing generals and opposition party conservatives who weren't at all happy with how the liberal president was handling things. They claimed he was weak on military concerns, an appeaser, so to speak.

Now what the hell does that remind me of...

[pinboy3niner]

1. Excellent movie

One that I am reminded of every time a teabagger talks of "taking our country back."

[Tx4obama]

2. Watched it for the first time a month or so ago. Great film! n/t

[WCGreen]

3. I taped it back then...

I remember they showed this to us in my senior year Human Relations class...

[AsahinaKimi]

4. Can't recall if I saw the film however

I recall reading the book by Fletcher Knebel. It was good!

[Tx4obama]

5. Here's link to another REALLY good film - based in Washington D.C.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055728/

[WCGreen]

6. Wonderful Movie...

Charles Laughton was always one of my favorite actors...

[Tx4obama]

7. Here's a link to my 'legal/political films' list over at IMDB.com

http://www.imdb.com/list/g-my_IEPcbY/

There might be something else on there you might not have seen and might like.

[WCGreen]

10. Thanks!

[DCBob]

12. excellent list but quite a few I have not seen.

I will check some of them out. Thanks for posting.

[Tx4obama]

8. Here's a link to the 'trailer' video - and more info

Advise and Consent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2pVHeeQdpA

Looks like 'Advice and Constent' will be re-aired on TCM : Wednesday, October 12 @ 04:00 AM (ET)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/66836/Advise-Consent/

[pnorman]

9. That film was almost certainly inspired by the "Business Plot".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

There's a History Channel documentary on that attempted coup, that's somewhere on the internet as a video. Later, I'll try to find it.

On edit: Here's a DU thread, that goes into that Business Plot to some extent: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6150066

[DCBob]

11. funny, just watched it myself yesterday.. tremendous film and timeless.

I had recorded it earlier from TMC a just got around to watching it yesterday. I had seen it before but it was a long time ago. Burt Lancaster is great as the crazed, "patriotic", "save America from the lefties" general. A must see film for all Americans.