"The scenario of the film may have been inspired by the clash between General Curtis LeMay and President John F. Eisenhower (CVN-69), which was actually commissioned in 1977. Navy's third nuclear-powered supercarrier was the Nimitz class USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, at anchor in the Bay of Gibraltar. Sixth Fleet flagship, a 100,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named after the late President Dwight D. "The novel has White House aide Paul Girard meeting with Vice Admiral Farley C. The motion picture is set four years earlier, in May 1970, as shown both by the day/date indicator in the Pentagon, and the reference by Jordan Lyman to "a year and nine months" before Election Day 1972. "In the novel, the story is set in May 1974, not long after the conclusion of a stalemated war in Iran fought along conventional warfare lines similar to Korea (and which, unlike the actual Vietnam War, did not precipitate a major anti-war movement inside American society). The author, Knebel, got the idea for the book after interviewing then Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay. Walker after he retired from the military. The story is said to have been influenced by the right-wing anti-Communist political activities of General Edwin A. The novel was made into a motion picture in 1964, with screenplay by Rod Serling, directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. " Seven Days in May is a political thriller novel written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Directed by: John Frankenheimer and produced by: Edward Lewis.
Seven Days in May, starring: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, and Edmond O Brien. "In the near future, the President of the United States discovers a miltary coup is being plotted by one of his Joint Chiefs and must find a way to dismantle it."
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