Seven days in May (Motion picture) Local hero (Motion picture) Executive action (Motion picture) Flame and the arrow (Motion picture)
Notes:
Title from container. Seven days in May based on the novel by Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II. Executive action based on the novel by Mark Lane and Donald Freed. Originally released as separate motion pictures, 1950-1983. Widescreen format (except for The flame and the arrow) Special feature for Local hero: Theatrical trailer. Special features for Seven days in May include: Optional feature length audio commentary by director John Frankenheimer ; original theatrical trailer. Special features for Executive action: Vintage featurette, November 22, 1963: In search of an answer; Burt Lancaster trailer gallery. Special features for The flame and the arrow: shorts "So you're going to have an operation" and "Strife with father" ; theatrical trailers. Local Hero: Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay, Burt Lancaster. Seven days in May: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam. Executive action: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer. The flame and the arrow: Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas, Aline MacMahon, Frank Allenby.
Contents:
Local hero (1983) / written and directed by Bill Forsyth -- Seven days in May (1964) / directed by John Frankenheimer -- Executive action (1973) / directed by David Miller -- The flame and the arrow (1950) / directed by Jacques Tourneur.
Summary:
Local hero: Comedy about an American oil company representative and the sleepy seaside Scottish village he must buy. Seven days in May: It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ...At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant colonel uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time to derail a disaster? Executive action: Who killed President Kennedy? Mixing narrative sements with newsreel footage, the story of a group of powerful men who plot the assassination. First they must recruit and train a shooter, then frame Lee Harvey Oswald. The flame and the arrow: Overlord Count Ulrich takes it one step too far. It was bad enough when he kidnapped the pretty wife of the young archer Dardo, but when Ulrich takes the man's son, a rebel leader is born.
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