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Seven Days in May
Released in 1964, director John Frankenheimer's political thriller is based on the 1962 Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II novel of the same title. Addressing the issue ...
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Critical Essay by Sander Vanocur
It would be a mistake to dismiss [Seven Days in May], as some already have, because it reads like a thriller. The authors [Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II] ob...
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Critical Essay by William Barrett
[Seven Days in May] had a freshness and suspense of melodrama to recommend it and was a great popular success;… [Convention], however, is corny and mechanical,...
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Critical Essay by Philip T. Hartung
You don't have to believe "Seven Days in May," but, except for the confusing opening scenes showing riots in front of the White House and then ...
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Critical Essay by Brendan Gill
"'Seven Days in May' is an almost perfect thriller"—such was the opinion I was about to set down when my conscience intervened; the wa...
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Seven Days in May
Critical Essay by Sander Vanocur
