Peter McGuire Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 I have viewed this movie before, but it is on now and has to do with the Secret Service either being involved, or being used as a deception where a President arrived in the town, "Suddenly." Frank Sinatra and other great actors are making a good afternoon for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter McGuire Posted September 17, 2015 Author Share Posted September 17, 2015 (edited) A "Stool Pigeon" tips off before he dies about the plot. Sound like a certain woman speaking to a police officer before Kennedy was killed? The Book Depository Building ( in this movie ) has now been secured. ( a retired Secret Service Agents home ) Edited September 17, 2015 by Peter McGuire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter McGuire Posted September 17, 2015 Author Share Posted September 17, 2015 Fake FBI Agents led by Sinatra take over the Book Depository Building ( a retired Secret Service Agents home ) and are also using it as a snipers location in anticipation of the Presidents arrival. It is interesting how this movie portrays the Secret Service as an organization that does its job. Of course they have done just that - except for one fateful day in Dallas Texas. Leading up to and including November 22, 1963. Tragically, movies like this make them appear unable to ever be on the wrong side of their sworn duties. But their shame will forever be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Von Pein Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 (edited) Edited September 17, 2015 by David Von Pein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon G. Tidd Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 "Suddenly" was re-made recently, featuring Ray Liotta as the Sterling Hayden character. It's a weak re-make, IMO. Set in modern times. But it echoes strongly the theme of evil players in the background as depicted in The Parallax View and Executive Action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter McGuire Posted September 17, 2015 Author Share Posted September 17, 2015 Thanks , Jon for your input. My feelings are that the conspirators had this movie in mind when putting their killing of our president together. There is always a focus on "what the patsy was thinking or doing, or what he may have or not have done while he was being framed for the murder of the president of the United States." I focus on what the murderers were thinking - and become a more clever and devious man doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Newton Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 My feelings are that the conspirators had this movie in mind when putting their killing of our president together. More likely: "Every now and then a man on a white horse rides by, and we appoint him to be our personal god for the duration. For some men it was a Senator McCarthy, for others it was a General Walker, and now it's a General Scott." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Neal Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 My feelings are that the conspirators had this movie in mind when putting their killing of our president together. More likely: "Every now and then a man on a white horse rides by, and we appoint him to be our personal god for the duration. For some men it was a Senator McCarthy, for others it was a General Walker, and now it's a General Scott."[/size] One of my ALL TIME favorite movies! According to John Frankenheimer, the Producer, JFK asked him to make the book into a movie because he was afraid of a military takeover due to his many 'disagreements' with the military... Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Burt Lancaster never got enough credit for all the films he starred in or produced that showed the danger of American hubris. Not just this one, but also Twilight's last Gleaming, Executive Action and Go Tell the Spartans. The last is a a disgracefully underrated film about early American involvement in Vietnam. In my opinion its one of the two or three best movies ever made on the subject. When the budget ran out, and the studio would not put any more bucks into the production, Lancaster took the money out of his salary to complete the film. If you ever get a chance to see it, please do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Von Pein Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 (edited) I, too, think "Seven Days In May" is a very good film. And it received some excellent reviews as well, including this one by The New York Times (which many here might appreciate)...."There is a great deal about this 'Seven Days in May' that is rousing and encouraging to a feeling of confidence and pride—and this is in addition to the feelings of tension and excitement it stirs. Considerably more than melodrama and sensationalism are contained in its not too farfetched speculations. There is, in its slick dramatic frame, a solid base of respect for democracy and the capacities of freedom-loving men. .... In some vivid and trenchant dialogue, which Rod Serling has composed in doing the screenplay from the novel, the President sadly notes the cause of such a move toward upheaval is not one man's lust for power but the consequence of a concentration of fear and anxiety. The enemy is not the general, he says, it is the nuclear age. 'It happens to have killed man's faith in his ability to influence what happens to him,' he says. If for no more than this statement, the film is worth its salt. But there is a whole lot more in it. The whole thing achieves a tingling speed and irresistible tension under John Frankenheimer's direction."-- Bosley Crowther; The New York Times; February 20, 1964nytimes.com/Full Movie ReviewClassic--Movies.blogspot.com/2011/07/seven-days-in-may.html Edited September 18, 2015 by David Von Pein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Von Pein Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 (edited) And the N.Y. Times review for "Suddenly" is a good one too. And it, too, was written by veteran film critic Bosley Crowther (ten years before "Seven Days In May" came out).... " 'Suddenly' shapes up as one of the slickest recent items in the minor movie league...a compact study of terror and suspense. .... It moves along so crisply and with such breathless uncertainty all the way that it drags you into the episode and holds you to the end. .... Mr. Sinatra deserves a special chunk of praise for playing the leading gunman with an easy, cold, vicious sort of gleam."-- Bosley Crowther; The New York Times; October 8, 1954 nytimes.com/Full Movie Review Edited September 18, 2015 by David Von Pein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawn Meredith Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 My feelings are that the conspirators had this movie in mind when putting their killing of our president together. More likely: "Every now and then a man on a white horse rides by, and we appoint him to be our personal god for the duration. For some men it was a Senator McCarthy, for others it was a General Walker, and now it's a General Scott." Exactly what I was thinking. I remember hearing ads for this film on the radio a few months after the assassination and I knew it was "about" the Kennedy assassination. If only...we had that ending. I have the book and the dvd. Great film to watch along with JFK. Happy ending vs the truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Newton Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 I had picked the quote from the script I placed under because that was pretty explosive stuff back in 1964. They named McCarthy and Walker and pointed them out as "very emotional, very illogical lunatic fringe" along with the rest of the extreme right. It was a warning and apparently it was a little to late. Here's the full part of that exchange: President Jordan Lyman: The next step should be to your liking, Chris. Esther, call the Pentagon. Tell General Scott I want to see him right away. Esther Townsend: [on intercom] Yes, sir. Christopher Todd: I think it's time we faced the enemy, Mr. President. President Jordan Lyman: He's not the enemy. Scott, the Joint Chiefs, even the very emotional, very illogical lunatic fringe: they're not the enemy. The enemy's an age - a nuclear age. It happens to have killed man's faith in his ability to influence what happens to him. And out of this comes a sickness, and out of sickness a frustration, a feeling of impotence, helplessness, weakness. And from this, this desperation, we look for a champion in red, white, and blue. Every now and then a man on a white horse rides by, and we appoint him to be our personal god for the duration. For some men it was a Senator McCarthy, for others it was a General Walker, and now it's a General Scott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 (edited) Since we are on the subject of that era's assassination films, let us not ignore the best of them all, at least for me: The later remake was a disaster, and Streep did not approach Lansbury. This is probably Frankenheimer's best film, with the possible exception of Black Sunday. A book and film that was way ahead of its time. (I except Frankenheimer's The Iceman Cometh, since that is really a filmed play, not a film. But in my opinion, that is probably the best film of a great American play ever produced.) Edited September 19, 2015 by James DiEugenio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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