Seven Days in May on TCM now.

[elleng]

[Adsos Letter]

1. One of my favorite movies of all time.

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."

[mrmpa]

2. I like this movie a lot................

the first time I saw it was in the summer of 1974 (remember what was going on at the time). I saw it with my Dad, it was on a local channel (no cable back then) on a late Saturday night. I was 17 and a recent high school grad. also a hater of Nixon, my father was no fan either. The film seemed somewhat applicable to what was going on in the world around us.

[Sherman A1]

3. Great film

and great book as well.