With everything going on down south in the good old United States of America I figured it would be fitting to escape current events with a lighthearted romp of a movie about an attempted military coup to overthrow the president. John Frankenheimer's 1964 classic political thriller is written by Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone) and stars Fredrich March as President Lyman, signing a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union. Burt Lancaster is General Scott, a military man who doesn't see this as a diplomatic solution to the Cold War but a ploy by the Russians to gain an unbeatable advantage. Kirk Douglas is Colonel Casey, the man caught between the two and Ava Gardner is Scott's former mistress who provides vital evidence of the coup to the President and his loyalists. See how much nicer this fictional White House is than Trump's.
