Movie Review: Seven Days in May (1964)

Rod Serling doesn’t appear to have written that often for film, so I have to appreciate this movie as one of his few feature length scripts, apparently.

While the movie’s based on a novel, this definitely feels like it’s inspired by the success of The Manchurian Candidate, from two years prior. It has the same director and a similarly loaded cast including Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.

Everyone does a fine job here in this conspiracy story about a cabal to take over the US government after a disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union. It’s actually quite ahead of its time in the way it explores the military-industrial complex.

While this movie is pretty interesting, and it’s solid, it is somewhat unremarkable. It doesn’t do anything that well, but it does everything pretty well.

Rating: 7/10