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Irving Wallace (novel)
Rod Serling (screenplay)
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It took an accident to make this man President of the United States. What they do to him now won't be an accident. more
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When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health... more | add synopsis
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Watch Out!: The Man (1972)
(From JustPressPlay. 20 January 2009, 11:53 AM, PST)
How Hollywood Paved The Way For President Obama
(From CinemaRetro. 20 January 2009, 4:11 AM, PST)
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Very Well Made TV-Movie more (13 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| James Earl Jones | ... | Douglass Dilman | |
| Martin Balsam | ... | Jim Talley | |
| Burgess Meredith | ... | Senator Watson | |
| Lew Ayres | ... | Noah Calvin | |
| William Windom | ... | Arthur Eaton | |
| Barbara Rush | ... | Kay Eaton | |
| Georg Stanford Brown | ... | Robert Wheeler | |
| Janet MacLachlan | ... | Wanda | |
| Martin E. Brooks | ... | Wheeler's Lawyer | |
| Simon Scott | ... | Hugh Gaynor | |
| Patric Knowles | ... | South African Consul | |
| Robert DoQui | ... | Webson | |
| Anne Seymour | ... | Ma Blore | |
| Edward Faulkner | ... | Secret Service Man | |
| Gilbert Green | ... | Congressman Hand |
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USA:93 min
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Originally made for television, but released theatrically first. more
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Featured in 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2009) (TV) more
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First off, the last reviewer doesn't know what he's talking about when he says the Constitutional fluke that makes James Earl Jones president is "fictional." It is indeed true that when the President, Vice-President and Speaker Of The House are all dead and/or incapacitated the President Pro Tempore of the Senate becomes President. The only stretch is that the job usually goes to the most senior member of the majority Party of the Senate, and not to someone as young as Jones' senator is.
Also, there is no assassination plot against the President in the movie.
As for the movie itself, despite the fact that it is penned by Rod Serling (from Irving Wallace's novel), it is remarkably less free of the kind of pretentious liberalism that marred his script for "Seven Days In May." In fact, what is remarkable for the film is how it falls much closer to the center of the spectrum politically in comparison to what Hollywood churns out today like "West Wing".
Jerry Goldsmith's score is the best work he ever did for a TV-movie and hopefully some day it will find its way to CD as many other obscure TV scores of his have.