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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
I haven't seen Seven Days in May, but Fail Safe is an iconic Cold War movie. I read the book before I saw the movie, though -- I had a totally different idea of what the Vindicator bomber looked like (I was thinking more XB-70 Valkyrie) than the B-58 Hustlers they used in the movie.
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You've missed a "goodie" - "Seven Days In May" is a pretty good film about a US president who is about to sign a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Russians (the film was made in 1964 but set in 1970) - the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs plans a coup because of fears the Russkies are going to doublecross America. A USMC Colonel working at the Pentagon gets wind of the plot and has to track it down before his boss (loosely based on Curtis LeMay) executes the plan.
Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner - what's not to like?