If I'm not mistaken, the Senate has to ratify a treaty. The President can't bring the US into one unilaterally, as he does in this film(I believe). Therefore, the generals throwing the coup are the ones protecting the Constitution and the President is the tyrant.
Charles W. Bailey II, co-author of the novel (with Fletcher Knebel) died on 3 Jan 2012, at age 82.
David Dunlap's obituary in the NY Times ended with the sentence, "Having given the book a lukewarm review in The New York Times, Orville Prescott concluded, “It ought to make a better movie than it is a novel.”" He was exactly correct.
Lik this isn't about to happen in 2012...The US Northern Command is the real government. We all love US Army General Charles Jacoby. We just don't know it yet.
love the camerman on riding on back of motorcycle, yep, Frankenheimer movie... not sure they would let them film that out there today.. I don't believe the "football" carriers follow the President from room to room while in the white house... they just hang somewhere lol Ironic that the surgeon general gave his Cig warnings that year.
President Kennedy was right in that it happened to him in Dealey Plaza, and for the same reasons as stated in the movie. Of course, it goes much deeper, but that explains the military-CIA reasoning.
The movie certainly looks believable to anyone who is not current or former military. I'm a vet, too. Maybe a Joint Chiefs General COULD develop a messianic complex, but I doubt if he could get enough support from other military members to carry out his plan. There were, and are, many personnel reliability safeguards in place to prevent that from happening. Lord knows I've seen a few ranking individuals who come close to being this power hungry.
@MisterBouncyBounce That a General with a God complex wouldn't get support to overthrow the government? I would. You know something the rest of us don't?
@kurtb8474 about that and the "safeguards" thing. look up the inspiration for the book, curtis lemay and why kennedy wanted this movie made very badly. as for safeguards look up FDR and the attempted coup against him. i wouldn't be lax in thinking a coup couldn't happen this way or any other.
Continue from previous post. Don't get me wrong, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas were great actors and acted in some great movies, I just don't care for this one. In reality, Burt Lancaster would have resign from his position and then criticized the president maybe run for office against him. We saw what happen over a year ago when Gen Mcchrystal's staff criticized Predident Obama and Vice President Biden to a magazine reporter. He was forced out into retirement shortly afterwards.
As a person who served 7 yrs in the military, I can tell you that the premise for this movie is totally unrealistic and in some parts laughable. No high ranking miltary officer, especially the Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of staff would ever mouth off and back talk to the President like Burt Lancaster did in this movie, especially in the oval office. No General would ever secretly plot to take over the govt by a miltary cue just because he disagrees with the president. on some policy issue.
In Gen. Scott's mind the possibility of a military takeover IS possible. The general clearly has a messianic complex. And though the Cold War is over, it could be replaced today with the "war on terror". If a military hero was popular enough & if a president was unpopular enough it just could happen (or at least be attempted). Though you of course have the right to disagree. In any event, it's just a movie...and the scenario makes for a gripping tale, plausible or not.
The novel came out in 1962. President John F. Kennedy had read the novel and believed the scenario as described could actually occur in the United States.
@KaraLarson26 yeah but think point is, this movie & screenplay from early 60's not now. back then there were US generals expousing pretty extreme ideas - walker with his john birch stuff & lemay with his active first strike advocacy. plus this was era of hoover who operated seemingly at large & very politically, he smeared stevenson as democratic candidate. just saying was different era with cold war paranoia in overdrive. as aside kinda interesting that lancaster later in 'executive action'.
Burt Lancaster is the one who makes this film great. His cool, unemotional style even when being accused of crimes by the President is not what one would expect from a potential Napoleon and I think Rod Serling is warning us that there can be a danger to democracy even from people who are not shrieking demagogues of the type the 20th century suffered so much from..
@rshaddock ..........obamy is just another corporate ass lickin lackey!!!..................he's turned the white house into a monkey house - most non-black americans think that his wife michelle looks like a baboon - even if they don't say so!!!.............
An outstanding film on every level. Re-reading the book a couple of summers ago brought an even greater appreciation for the superb, taut and literate screenplay by Rod Serling.
Kirk Douglass was the original choice to play Scott; he deferred to Lancaster to sweeten the offer to join the production. This was also John Houseman's film debut.
A stand-out cast, superb script and top-notch direction & production (like another favorite film from the same year, "Fail-Safe").
@wreehill Please check your information before posting your assertion and proving your ignorance for all to read, such as at IMDb.com. Rod Serling wrote the screenplay, adapting the novel by Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II. It is, in my opinion, superior to the novel in several ways, not least amongst them Serling's tightening of the story, & adding a tersness to the dialog that was handled adroitly by the stand-out cast (particularly Lancaster & March) and director John Frankenheimer.
hey Whiskeyfly......Burt played the part much like that of Sterling Haydens part in Dr.Strangelove...i.r. a wacked out General like LeMay.."bomb them back to the stoneage'til they glow".....etc...
I just got the dvd of this great movie. One of the greatest things about the DVD is John Frankenheimer's excellent commentary on the making of the film, and by itself is worth the price of the DVD. I had known Mr. Frankenheimer mostly as a movie director, but his commentary shows him to be a really intelligent and insightful person. He offers not only fascinating recollections of the making of the film, but also discusses both past and present political movies and how they have changed.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 the Kenedy administration and much of the military split into 2 factions, the Hawks and the Doves. The Doves led by JFK and his younger brother Bobby strove for a diplomatic solution. The Hawks, which included Curtis Le May and physicist and so-called father of the hydrogen bomb Edward Teller, wanted to provoke the USSR into an all out nuclear conflict. If the Hawks had gotten their way few of us if any would be alive today.
I see the author that wrote the book got the idea after talking with Curtis Lemay, he was a famous air force general. Maybe Burt lancaster was supposed to be Curtis LeMay?
some said he was crazy, but I've read some books about him. he was just a tough no nonsense officer that was in charge of SAC. (strategic air command)
"That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it " quotes by Curtis LeMay
@whiskeyify I was 15 when Nixon was Prez & he continued the war against Viet Nam.Gen. Curtis LeMay was in the news a lot, either villified or heroic.I understood him to be one step lower than a Nazi though I never really KNEW why.(Politically brainwashed pro or con we all were).
@RasMajnouni Having read some about LeMay I think he was just a tough officer.
I guess not well liked because of his personality, but the men who served under him respected him. He flew many combat missions with his men during WW2.
@whiskeyify For sure,he was in the news almost daily.He was typical of the establishment using the mass media to push the war and a grassroots anti-war movement which fought against that well oiled machine.The previous war in Korea was a U.N. operation.Here the country divided.I admit to being brainwashed against LeMay,Agnew,Nixon,etc while all my schoolclass was for.I'm still an idiot.
@whiskeyify From Wikipedia "The story is said to have been influenced by the right-wing anti-Communist political activities of General Edwin A. Walker after he resigned from the military. An additional inspiration was provided by the 1961 interview Knebel, who was also a political journalist and columnist, conducted with the newly-appointed Air Force Chief of Staff, Curtis LeMay, an advocate of preventive first-strike nuclear option." Perhaps the Lancaster character is based on Walker & LeMay.
@whiskeyify HOW MUCH WHISKY DID YU SUCK DOWN WHEN YU BECAME A LEMAY LOVER LEMAY WAS FULL OF SCHEIT THE IDEA OF A WINNABLE NUCLEAR WAR HE WAS SO FULL OF NONSENSE IT AINT FUNNY THE ASSHOLE SINGLEHANDEDLY DESTROYED WALLACES PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IN 68 WITH HIS PRESS ONFERENCE LEMAY FIRST CLASS AHOLE LIKE YOU
@wreehill Never said I liked the man...just commented that I don't think he was crazy. I think he was just very tough minded. Have read several books about WW2, and enjoyed reading his stories. Have not read anything later on such as your comments about Wallace. I guess he was not Mr. Personality.
@whiskeyify just a tough nonsense offiicer huh you mean like heinrich himmler of the ss in nazi germany career military generals and admirals are almost invariably out of touch wackoes adml stockdale adml denton general walker general lemay we need term limits for miltary men as well as judges and politicians career soldiers are more a danger to democracy than any elected official
@wreehill Easier still, try watching the film from the beginning; you'll find "Screenplay by Rod Serling" at 01:47 (immediately following the names of the authors of the novel); it's displayed for three full seconds.
Based on the Nazi bankster coup against FDR by Judas General Smedley Butler. President Lyman is reference to General Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who signed Operation Northwoods, then was fired by JFK after his veto of Northwoods. But Northwoods included Operation Mongoose that was used to assassinate JFK, with Nazi CIA agent Bush Sr in Dealey Plaza. "The Museum at the George Bush Presidential Library presents Seven Days in May (1964), part of the Classic Film Series."
Very appropo today, with the extent the public has been dumbed-down, propagandized, chronically MSM misinformed & psyoped to be manipulated w/ hot-topic soundbite issues. Presidents who aren't 100% onboard the Wall St/Banker/MIC agenda re: the technocratic dictatorship can & will be isolated, discreditted or removed a 'la JFK. This movie is a testiment to Pentagon & CIA's backstabbing him over not supporting bay of Pigs, negotiating w/ Kruschek & Castro, pulling out of Vietnam, dimantling CIA...
Loved reading the quotes from some USAF men a few years back about a possible coup, and they told the writer "Don't give me that SEVEN DAYS IN MAY crap." As they explained, they wanted to get their pensions and get out, and NOTHING political was going to jeopardize that!
Does anyone know technical details of the Jerry Goldsmith score? Very interesting, sounds like multiple pianos and percussion - that must be at least 4 xylophones at the beginning, certainly more than 2.
In part 7 there's a passage for 3 distinct snare drums, I don't think I've actually heard anyone do that before.
@beachnikk Bigger shame is how they re-make many "classics" these days... It's like they forgot how to make genuinely good movies & how to come-up with new ideas. I mean, think about it: How would this movie looked if it were made in a later era of film-making? Bet an '80s production of it wouldn't be as bad as a modern one! And on that same note, I leave you with this: "Assault On Prct. 13" & "Dawn of The Dead" have gotten re-made... What's next? "They Live"? Can you imagine it? No-thanks!
@nickelindimer I totally agree, it seems that Hollowood can't come up with anything original anymore and special effects, guns and violence have taken the place of a good storyline.
@beachnikk Well, I wouldn't go that-far... It's like I've said about anime: Some stories are best told in a certain way. If the involvement of CGI helps it, like with "Transformers", or is the only way to really do it... and is partially done so in order to push limits (Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within) I'm for it. But this exploitive bull like "Fast & Furious" (It is so obvious a real car-guy didn't have any influence on that film) with 15M camera-angles in 3sec... Same for Tarrantino!
Thank God we have a vetting process that prevents evil from infiltrating the halls of power here in the USA.
PurpleSquire2012 2 weeks ago in playlist may
If I'm not mistaken, the Senate has to ratify a treaty. The President can't bring the US into one unilaterally, as he does in this film(I believe). Therefore, the generals throwing the coup are the ones protecting the Constitution and the President is the tyrant.
Food for thought...
thenutintheushanka18 3 weeks ago
Charles W. Bailey II, co-author of the novel (with Fletcher Knebel) died on 3 Jan 2012, at age 82.
David Dunlap's obituary in the NY Times ended with the sentence, "Having given the book a lukewarm review in The New York Times, Orville Prescott concluded, “It ought to make a better movie than it is a novel.”" He was exactly correct.
AJNorth 1 month ago
Lik this isn't about to happen in 2012...The US Northern Command is the real government. We all love US Army General Charles Jacoby. We just don't know it yet.
mellocupx 2 months ago
I always liked this movie
clubboss 3 months ago
@mymyharlow Martin Balsam
colt4667 3 months ago
Well, there he is again ...Whit Bissell. When did that man find time to sleep? I really liked him as the undertaker in the Magnificent Seven.
deriter64 4 months ago
love the camerman on riding on back of motorcycle, yep, Frankenheimer movie... not sure they would let them film that out there today.. I don't believe the "football" carriers follow the President from room to room while in the white house... they just hang somewhere lol Ironic that the surgeon general gave his Cig warnings that year.
irish89055 4 months ago
President Kennedy was right in that it happened to him in Dealey Plaza, and for the same reasons as stated in the movie. Of course, it goes much deeper, but that explains the military-CIA reasoning.
Boelcke1919 5 months ago
The movie certainly looks believable to anyone who is not current or former military. I'm a vet, too. Maybe a Joint Chiefs General COULD develop a messianic complex, but I doubt if he could get enough support from other military members to carry out his plan. There were, and are, many personnel reliability safeguards in place to prevent that from happening. Lord knows I've seen a few ranking individuals who come close to being this power hungry.
kurtb8474 5 months ago
@kurtb8474 i wouldn't bet on that.
MisterBouncyBounce 5 months ago 3
@MisterBouncyBounce That a General with a God complex wouldn't get support to overthrow the government? I would. You know something the rest of us don't?
kurtb8474 5 months ago
@kurtb8474 about that and the "safeguards" thing. look up the inspiration for the book, curtis lemay and why kennedy wanted this movie made very badly. as for safeguards look up FDR and the attempted coup against him. i wouldn't be lax in thinking a coup couldn't happen this way or any other.
MisterBouncyBounce 5 months ago 2
@kurtb8474 This came around the same time as the film Fail Safe did.
Professor6871 2 months ago
Continue from previous post. Don't get me wrong, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas were great actors and acted in some great movies, I just don't care for this one. In reality, Burt Lancaster would have resign from his position and then criticized the president maybe run for office against him. We saw what happen over a year ago when Gen Mcchrystal's staff criticized Predident Obama and Vice President Biden to a magazine reporter. He was forced out into retirement shortly afterwards.
KaraLarson26 6 months ago
As a person who served 7 yrs in the military, I can tell you that the premise for this movie is totally unrealistic and in some parts laughable. No high ranking miltary officer, especially the Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of staff would ever mouth off and back talk to the President like Burt Lancaster did in this movie, especially in the oval office. No General would ever secretly plot to take over the govt by a miltary cue just because he disagrees with the president. on some policy issue.
KaraLarson26 6 months ago
@KaraLarson26
In Gen. Scott's mind the possibility of a military takeover IS possible. The general clearly has a messianic complex. And though the Cold War is over, it could be replaced today with the "war on terror". If a military hero was popular enough & if a president was unpopular enough it just could happen (or at least be attempted). Though you of course have the right to disagree. In any event, it's just a movie...and the scenario makes for a gripping tale, plausible or not.
JubalCalif 5 months ago
@KaraLarson26
The novel came out in 1962. President John F. Kennedy had read the novel and believed the scenario as described could actually occur in the United States.
flyfysher 5 months ago
@KaraLarson26 yeah but think point is, this movie & screenplay from early 60's not now. back then there were US generals expousing pretty extreme ideas - walker with his john birch stuff & lemay with his active first strike advocacy. plus this was era of hoover who operated seemingly at large & very politically, he smeared stevenson as democratic candidate. just saying was different era with cold war paranoia in overdrive. as aside kinda interesting that lancaster later in 'executive action'.
100milnic 3 months ago
@100milnic Yep! The past is the past. And it NEVER repeats itself. Good call buddy. Now we can all relax.
shonjuan11 2 months ago in playlist Seven days in May
Burt Lancaster is the one who makes this film great. His cool, unemotional style even when being accused of crimes by the President is not what one would expect from a potential Napoleon and I think Rod Serling is warning us that there can be a danger to democracy even from people who are not shrieking demagogues of the type the 20th century suffered so much from..
barkochba132 6 months ago
A play-write written in 1962 and directed by the late Rod Serling, It's a must watch for true patriots !!!
ExtremeDevelopment 6 months ago
This has become one of my favorite movies.
Novak67766 7 months ago in playlist Seven days in May
Serling's masterpiece.
markpyruz 7 months ago
@logprome2 Sure, Reverand Jackson, Sure!
skudaarkaat1 8 months ago
Burt Lancaster is one of the GREATEST ACTORS EVER
ND7652 8 months ago 6
@ND7652 agree
elvis14ism 2 months ago
They don't make movies like this ANYMORE .
ND7652 8 months ago
Please release Japanese subtitled DVD!!!!!!!
applecobra 8 months ago
An important movie for our current times. Obama should watch this.
rshaddock 1 year ago
@rshaddock Agreed. Then he ought to re-read the Constitution of the United States - and have Justice Stephen Breyer explain it to him, slowly.
AJNorth 1 year ago
@rshaddock ..........obamy is just another corporate ass lickin lackey!!!..................he's turned the white house into a monkey house - most non-black americans think that his wife michelle looks like a baboon - even if they don't say so!!!.............
24zingo 1 year ago
@24zingo That's FUNNY! The whole thing makes my skin crawl! A nigger in the white house!
skudaarkaat1 11 months ago
@skudaarkaat1 fucking idiots.
RightWingDown 10 months ago
I'm with that 29%.....Lyman for another four years!
MrSunlander 1 year ago 2
Great movie thanks Mister BB, do you have "Advise & Consent" (1962) with Henry Fonda? If you do please upload. Thank you again.
cinerama62 1 year ago
An outstanding film on every level. Re-reading the book a couple of summers ago brought an even greater appreciation for the superb, taut and literate screenplay by Rod Serling.
Kirk Douglass was the original choice to play Scott; he deferred to Lancaster to sweeten the offer to join the production. This was also John Houseman's film debut.
A stand-out cast, superb script and top-notch direction & production (like another favorite film from the same year, "Fail-Safe").
AJNorth 1 year ago
@AJNorth rod serling had nothing to do with the film
wreehill 1 year ago
@wreehill Please check your information before posting your assertion and proving your ignorance for all to read, such as at IMDb.com. Rod Serling wrote the screenplay, adapting the novel by Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II. It is, in my opinion, superior to the novel in several ways, not least amongst them Serling's tightening of the story, & adding a tersness to the dialog that was handled adroitly by the stand-out cast (particularly Lancaster & March) and director John Frankenheimer.
AJNorth 1 year ago 2
hey Whiskeyfly......Burt played the part much like that of Sterling Haydens part in Dr.Strangelove...i.r. a wacked out General like LeMay.."bomb them back to the stoneage'til they glow".....etc...
golfdude2007 1 year ago
I just got the dvd of this great movie. One of the greatest things about the DVD is John Frankenheimer's excellent commentary on the making of the film, and by itself is worth the price of the DVD. I had known Mr. Frankenheimer mostly as a movie director, but his commentary shows him to be a really intelligent and insightful person. He offers not only fascinating recollections of the making of the film, but also discusses both past and present political movies and how they have changed.
farmerne 1 year ago
During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 the Kenedy administration and much of the military split into 2 factions, the Hawks and the Doves. The Doves led by JFK and his younger brother Bobby strove for a diplomatic solution. The Hawks, which included Curtis Le May and physicist and so-called father of the hydrogen bomb Edward Teller, wanted to provoke the USSR into an all out nuclear conflict. If the Hawks had gotten their way few of us if any would be alive today.
johngal56 1 year ago
Smackdown in front of the White House! Peaceniks vs Hawks. Love it.
starguy2718 1 year ago
3:10 "Lyman LOVERS!" AWESOME!!
geoffck6969 1 year ago
I see the author that wrote the book got the idea after talking with Curtis Lemay, he was a famous air force general. Maybe Burt lancaster was supposed to be Curtis LeMay?
some said he was crazy, but I've read some books about him. he was just a tough no nonsense officer that was in charge of SAC. (strategic air command)
"That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it " quotes by Curtis LeMay
whiskeyify 2 years ago 2
@whiskeyify I think you're a Lyman LOVER!
geoffck6969 1 year ago 2
@whiskeyify The might have "gotten their hair mussed up a little" though, ala Buck Turgidson!
geoffck6969 1 year ago
@whiskeyify I was 15 when Nixon was Prez & he continued the war against Viet Nam.Gen. Curtis LeMay was in the news a lot, either villified or heroic.I understood him to be one step lower than a Nazi though I never really KNEW why.(Politically brainwashed pro or con we all were).
RasMajnouni 1 year ago
@RasMajnouni Having read some about LeMay I think he was just a tough officer.
I guess not well liked because of his personality, but the men who served under him respected him. He flew many combat missions with his men during WW2.
whiskeyify 1 year ago
@whiskeyify For sure,he was in the news almost daily.He was typical of the establishment using the mass media to push the war and a grassroots anti-war movement which fought against that well oiled machine.The previous war in Korea was a U.N. operation.Here the country divided.I admit to being brainwashed against LeMay,Agnew,Nixon,etc while all my schoolclass was for.I'm still an idiot.
RasMajnouni 1 year ago
@whiskeyify From Wikipedia "The story is said to have been influenced by the right-wing anti-Communist political activities of General Edwin A. Walker after he resigned from the military. An additional inspiration was provided by the 1961 interview Knebel, who was also a political journalist and columnist, conducted with the newly-appointed Air Force Chief of Staff, Curtis LeMay, an advocate of preventive first-strike nuclear option." Perhaps the Lancaster character is based on Walker & LeMay.
Jonxwood 1 year ago
@whiskeyify HOW MUCH WHISKY DID YU SUCK DOWN WHEN YU BECAME A LEMAY LOVER LEMAY WAS FULL OF SCHEIT THE IDEA OF A WINNABLE NUCLEAR WAR HE WAS SO FULL OF NONSENSE IT AINT FUNNY THE ASSHOLE SINGLEHANDEDLY DESTROYED WALLACES PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IN 68 WITH HIS PRESS ONFERENCE LEMAY FIRST CLASS AHOLE LIKE YOU
wreehill 1 year ago
@wreehill Never said I liked the man...just commented that I don't think he was crazy. I think he was just very tough minded. Have read several books about WW2, and enjoyed reading his stories. Have not read anything later on such as your comments about Wallace. I guess he was not Mr. Personality.
whiskeyify 1 year ago
@wreehill You anacists and riotas betta have yoa day, 'cause afta Novemba fifth, you are through in this country!
sweetiepuss1944 1 year ago
@whiskeyify just a tough nonsense offiicer huh you mean like heinrich himmler of the ss in nazi germany career military generals and admirals are almost invariably out of touch wackoes adml stockdale adml denton general walker general lemay we need term limits for miltary men as well as judges and politicians career soldiers are more a danger to democracy than any elected official
wreehill 1 year ago
@wreehill add today the kooky captain c/o of the uss enterprise with his lewd sex videos taped on board ship
wreehill 1 year ago
@wreehill Easier still, try watching the film from the beginning; you'll find "Screenplay by Rod Serling" at 01:47 (immediately following the names of the authors of the novel); it's displayed for three full seconds.
AJNorth 1 year ago 4
Based on the Nazi bankster coup against FDR by Judas General Smedley Butler. President Lyman is reference to General Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who signed Operation Northwoods, then was fired by JFK after his veto of Northwoods. But Northwoods included Operation Mongoose that was used to assassinate JFK, with Nazi CIA agent Bush Sr in Dealey Plaza. "The Museum at the George Bush Presidential Library presents Seven Days in May (1964), part of the Classic Film Series."
toryvic1984 2 years ago
I love how the film is made completely in black and white, even though it could have easily been made in color (at least in 1962). Ahh, symbolism..
foxh8er 2 years ago
Nice to see that others have noted the excellent and riveting opening musical score. Notice also that the screenplay was written by Rod Serling.
odaibaman 2 years ago
Rumor has it that SecDef Gates was watching this movie on his trip back from Afghanistan. This past Christmas Day. "Underwear Bomber" anyone?
jimmyco1 2 years ago
Very appropo today, with the extent the public has been dumbed-down, propagandized, chronically MSM misinformed & psyoped to be manipulated w/ hot-topic soundbite issues. Presidents who aren't 100% onboard the Wall St/Banker/MIC agenda re: the technocratic dictatorship can & will be isolated, discreditted or removed a 'la JFK. This movie is a testiment to Pentagon & CIA's backstabbing him over not supporting bay of Pigs, negotiating w/ Kruschek & Castro, pulling out of Vietnam, dimantling CIA...
starmanskye 2 years ago
Loved reading the quotes from some USAF men a few years back about a possible coup, and they told the writer "Don't give me that SEVEN DAYS IN MAY crap." As they explained, they wanted to get their pensions and get out, and NOTHING political was going to jeopardize that!
krelllabs 2 years ago
Does anyone know technical details of the Jerry Goldsmith score? Very interesting, sounds like multiple pianos and percussion - that must be at least 4 xylophones at the beginning, certainly more than 2.
In part 7 there's a passage for 3 distinct snare drums, I don't think I've actually heard anyone do that before.
Enantiodromialist 2 years ago 3
This was when Goldsmith was writing wonderful scores, before he went to the brassy crap in the late 70s to the end.
krelllabs 2 years ago
Wow, this could be today's news.
Enantiodromialist 2 years ago
A shame they don't make movies like this anymore.
beachnikk 2 years ago 2
@beachnikk Bigger shame is how they re-make many "classics" these days... It's like they forgot how to make genuinely good movies & how to come-up with new ideas. I mean, think about it: How would this movie looked if it were made in a later era of film-making? Bet an '80s production of it wouldn't be as bad as a modern one! And on that same note, I leave you with this: "Assault On Prct. 13" & "Dawn of The Dead" have gotten re-made... What's next? "They Live"? Can you imagine it? No-thanks!
nickelindimer 1 year ago
@nickelindimer I totally agree, it seems that Hollowood can't come up with anything original anymore and special effects, guns and violence have taken the place of a good storyline.
beachnikk 1 year ago
@beachnikk Well, I wouldn't go that-far... It's like I've said about anime: Some stories are best told in a certain way. If the involvement of CGI helps it, like with "Transformers", or is the only way to really do it... and is partially done so in order to push limits (Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within) I'm for it. But this exploitive bull like "Fast & Furious" (It is so obvious a real car-guy didn't have any influence on that film) with 15M camera-angles in 3sec... Same for Tarrantino!
nickelindimer 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this Movie!
One of my favorites.
Every American should see it.
Frederick March was a Great Actor!
Loved it.
MuckinFutch 2 years ago
these titles were done by saul bass, who also did the titles for 'psycho'
hpmc9 2 years ago
Excellent. Thanks.
rainbowstripes 2 years ago
Thank you so much for posting this in such top rate quality. Amazing cast and riveting story
Fabstaire 2 years ago
This is pretty damn good!
Luke94711 2 years ago