Seven Days in May
1964 · 118 MIN · IMDB 7.8 · 18,012 VOTES · DIR. John Frankenheimer
Overview
A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,485 lines
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00:03:12 Lyman lovers!
00:07:54 We've been hating the Russians for a quarter of a century.
00:11:46 ...that would meet with your approval would be continuing to build bombs.
00:15:58 Nobody could live at that hellhole.
00:19:41 Oh, Senator. Pardon me.
00:23:45 It's too bad you're only available 20 minutes at a time.
00:29:43 Admiral Palmer couldn't make it. We'll brief him later.
00:36:21 Mr. President, have you ever authorized...
00:40:17 And that's all?
00:44:40 We'll have to come up with a list of men I can trust.
00:48:30 My feeling is that next week at this time we'll all be laughing about this.
00:52:40 Paul Girard get off all right?
00:59:29 You are funny.
01:05:20 Thank you.
01:11:46 Each move was calculated.
01:16:50 You're just like a lot of civilians.
01:22:37 And a Mr. Paul Girard. His destination was Washington.
01:27:52 Sir, I don't know. Colonel Broderick said that...
01:34:18 They turned northwest and dropped off our radar screens.
01:38:45 You gave me verbal authorization for the base and the unit.
01:42:29 James Mattoon Scott hasn't the slightest interest in his own glorification...
01:47:34 I'm sorry, Jiggs. Return them to Miss Holbrook.
01:53:35 General, he's asked them to resign. Hardesty, Dieffenbach, Riley and yourself.
03:06:00 The last of them came in six weeks ago.
Cast & Characters
Burt Lancaster
Gen. James Mattoon Scott
Kirk Douglas
Col. Martin 'Jiggs' Casey
Fredric March
President Jordan Lyman
Ava Gardner
Eleanor Holbrook
Edmond O'Brien
Sen. Raymond Clark
Martin Balsam
Paul Girard
Andrew Duggan
Col. William 'Mutt' Henderson
Hugh Marlowe
Harold McPherson
Whit Bissell
Sen. Frederick Prentice
Helen Kleeb
Esther Townsend
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,485
Dialogue density12.6 lines / min
First line00:03:12
Final line03:06:00
Production Record
DirectorJohn Frankenheimer
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes18,012