The Celluloid President

Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster in "Seven Days in May"


Listen Later

Jim and Gary discuss whether a military coup was possible in the early 1960s, as Hollywood seemed to think. "Seven Days in May" is a political thriller that JFK wanted to see made because he was worried about the power of the military. The result is a tense drama in which Burt Lancaster plays a rebellious Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with Kirk Douglas as his skeptical senior aide. Will the Constitution be upheld or trammeled? 

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

The Celluloid PresidentBy Gary Holmes