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6.7/10   132 votes
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Director:
Joseph Sargent
Writers:
Irving Wallace (novel)
Rod Serling (screenplay)
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Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
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
Plot:
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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(2 articles)
Watch Out!: The Man (1972)
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User Comments:
Very Well Made TV-Movie more

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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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:93 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:G

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Jack Benny's last feature film or cameo appearance. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2009) (TV) more

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8 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
Very Well Made TV-Movie, 10 May 2004
Author: Eric-62-2 from Morristown, NJ

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.

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