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6:00 PM Seven Days in May (1964)
When a military officer discovers a coup is being plotted by one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the President of the United States must try to find a way to dismantle it.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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(68,500 posts)elleng
(140,727 posts)brush
(61,033 posts)on realizing his plot had no chance of succeeding, just stood down and ordered his driver to take him home...The End.
No arrest, no perp walk in cuffs, nothing. In a way the ending is analogous to the longer, drawn out conclusion to TSF's J6 coup attempt...no arrest, no perp walk in cuffs, no front page headlines the next morning, no nothing.
At least there was major news coverage in print, MSM networks, cable and online, but still trump just went home to MAL, no arrest, no perp walk in cuffs, no front page headlines the next morning, no nothing. Thanks SCOTUS 6 for giving him immunity.
elleng
(140,727 posts)Thinking of my daughters, and how they got home from schools on 9/11, but ours was NOT fiction. (Afraid I'll be thinking hard of that, tonight.)