5/5 A Timeless Thriller
  by L. Cabos (planet earth)
From John Frankenheimer and Rod Serling comes an edge of your seat political thriller from the height of the Cold War. Great performances by Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Eva Gardner, Frederic March, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam and Andrew Duggan. A classic struggle between patriotism and duty. Douglas find his Col. Casey in the middle. No special features, ws, b&w.

5/5 Drama of the Highest Order
  by A Reader
It rarely gets better than this. The cast is stellar, near unbelievable: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Frederic March, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam AND Ava Gardner - with John Houseman, Andrew Duggan and Hugh Marlowe in supporting roles. John Frankenheimer's direction, in black and white, captures the Cold War era in a remarkable way. If that is not enough, the script, by Rod Serling, is literate and crackles. This is a thinking person's film - could there be a military plot to overthrow the government? In the film, the dispute is between a pro-nuclear disarmament President (March) and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs (Lancaster). You do not have to be sympathetic with the apparent politics of the film in order to enjoy this - the twists and tensions are terrific. It may very well be that they do not make movies like this anymore - if bang-bang special effects are what you are looking for, this is not it. If gold-plated dialogue, great actors and a serious subject for thought are what you are looking for, you could hardly do better than Seven Days in May, certainly among the great films of the post - WW II era.

5/5 JFK assassination
  by Gary L. Story (Tujunga, CA)
JFK knew about this film as it was being filmed which concerns a military coup. It was release after the real military coup which took JFK's life.

4/5 DVD - Military Take Over
  by MEJ1 (Saginaw, Texas, USA)
An excellent review of what Military banch trys to take over executive branch. Black and White Start Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas ---- I worn out 3 rd of copy......

4/5 3 stars out of 4
  by One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
The Bottom Line:

Though the movie suffers a bit when Lancaster is offscreen and the viewer never gets the impression that the situation is dire enough for a coup, Seven Days in May is a decent political thriller.