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The Man

  • 1972
  • G
  • 1h 33min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
6.9/10
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James Earl Jones, Martin Balsam, Barbara Rush, and William Windom in The Man (1972)
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El senador Douglas Dillman es designado superviviente de un trágico accidente que mata al presidente de los Estados Unidos y se convierte en el primer presidente negro de los Estados Unidos,... Leer todoEl senador Douglas Dillman es designado superviviente de un trágico accidente que mata al presidente de los Estados Unidos y se convierte en el primer presidente negro de los Estados Unidos, intenta acabar con la intolerancia en su camino.El senador Douglas Dillman es designado superviviente de un trágico accidente que mata al presidente de los Estados Unidos y se convierte en el primer presidente negro de los Estados Unidos, intenta acabar con la intolerancia en su camino.

  • Dirección
    • Joseph Sargent
  • Guionistas
    • Irving Wallace
    • Rod Serling
  • Elenco
    • James Earl Jones
    • Martin Balsam
    • Burgess Meredith
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    6.9/10
    457
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    • Dirección
      • Joseph Sargent
    • Guionistas
      • Irving Wallace
      • Rod Serling
    • Elenco
      • James Earl Jones
      • Martin Balsam
      • Burgess Meredith
    • 22Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 14Opiniones de los críticos
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      • 1 nominación en total

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    James Earl Jones
    James Earl Jones
    • Douglass Dilman
    Martin Balsam
    Martin Balsam
    • Jim Talley
    Burgess Meredith
    Burgess Meredith
    • Senator Watson
    Lew Ayres
    Lew Ayres
    • Noah Calvin
    William Windom
    William Windom
    • Arthur Eaton
    Barbara Rush
    Barbara Rush
    • Kay Eaton
    Georg Stanford Brown
    Georg Stanford Brown
    • Robert Wheeler
    Janet MacLachlan
    Janet MacLachlan
    • Wanda
    Martin E. Brooks
    Martin E. Brooks
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    • (as Martin Brooks)
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    Simon Scott
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    Patric Knowles
    Patric Knowles
    • South African Consul
    Robert DoQui
    Robert DoQui
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    Anne Seymour
    Anne Seymour
    • Ma Blore
    Edward Faulkner
    Edward Faulkner
    • Secret Service Man
    Gilbert Green
    Gilbert Green
    • Congressman Hand
    Lew Brown
    Lew Brown
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    Philip Bourneuf
    Philip Bourneuf
    • Chief Justice Williams
    Reginald Fenderson
    Reginald Fenderson
    • Reverend Otis Waldren
    • Dirección
      • Joseph Sargent
    • Guionistas
      • Irving Wallace
      • Rod Serling
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    6inspectors71

    Starvation

    Not just another cheap, throwaway ABC Movie of the Week, Joseph Sargent's The Man, written for the screen by Rod Serling and based on an Irving Wallace novel, this movie has the potential to be a very good political thriller. The performances are from journeyman to excellent, the dialogue, at times, crackles, and the story is a mixture of the catastrophic and the mundane (the death of the president and speaker of the house being the former and the pervasive racial dismissiveness directed toward James Earl Jones' president pro tempore-to-president is the latter).

    Yet.

    It's obvious ABC got a higher quality product than they wanted. The Movie of the Week series cranked out one piece of clichéd garbage after another during its 1969-1976 run, and the occasional brilliance (That Certain Summer, Katherine, Duel come to mind) would catch everyone by surprise.

    What do you do with something good, when you're regularly paying for crap?

    Sheesh, people might begin to expect quality.

    So, ABC puts The Man into limited release. The movie looks like a TV flick because it's on a MOTW budget. Probably made $37.26 nationwide. That'll teach 'em to make something good!

    But.

    I'd put The Man in the box set of post-Twilight Zone Rod Serling work along with the white-knuckled Seven Days in May, the original Planet of the Apes, and some of the better episodes of The Night Gallery. Serling was a great writer, but the trouble with The Man is that it's so starved for time and funds, so shoestrung by lowest common denominatorism from the network, that the movie never gels.

    That's catastrophic for the viewer and mundane for the world of networkthink.
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    I Wonder if Obama Watched This

    I think I can breathe now. The political and racial tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife. But this wasn't a sledgehammer movie beating us over the head with a political or racial message, it was very intelligently done.

    When the POTUS, the Speaker of the House, and others are killed in a very unfortunate accident, and the VP declines being sworn in due to his health, the next in line for the presidency became Senator Douglas Dilman (James Earl Jones). The initial thought was that the Secretary of State would be the next in line, but due to the Succession Act of 1947 the hierarchy was the President, Vice President, Speaker of the House, then President Pro Tempore of the Senate. This thrust a Black man into the presidency for the first time in U.S. history.

    Naturally, the implications, expectations, and non-expectations were tremendous. This movie could've gone in almost any direction and that's what we were waiting for as viewers: to see what direction it would go.

    The plot thickened as did the agendas once Dilman was sworn in. I think we only got a small taste of both the positive and negative expectations placed upon Dilman by Blacks and Whites. The movie settled in on one hot button issue surrounding the apartheid country of South Africa. It was an intricate hot mess President Dilman had to deal with. He was in a most unenviable position and I think the film (and Jones) conveyed that well.

    This was a bold and brave movie for 1972. The dialogue was excellent as was the script. I only wonder if Obama ever watched this?
    sonny_1963

    Presidential Succession and Bigotry

    The President of the US is killed. So is the Speaker of the House. The Vice President is ill and cannot accept the presidency.

    Enter US Senator Douglass Dillman, who is president pro tempe of the senate. He is also black. He accepts the presidency to the discontent of many cabinet officials, especially the secretary of state. He would be president if not for Dillman.

    Racial feelings are revealed among several politicians as Dillman sits in the oval office, determined to overcome the bigotry of those around him and to be as good a president as he can be.

    An early vehicle for James Earl Jones, who as Dillman, is brilliant. Excellent performances by the supporting cast. Hopefully, this film will one day be on DVD or VHS. It's also a good potential historical lesson to be absorbed by Americans if this situation should ever happen.
    celestr

    A Profound Film with a Profound Message

    As an African-American educator, I found this movie to be an extraordinary one. I hope to find a copy to show to my students who will participate in this year's Multicultural Career Institute, which is in its 13th year on our university campus. Situated in the Midwest, only 10 percent of the university's 22,000 students are students of color. The majority of the students come from small to large farming communities where few, and far too often, no persons of color live. One of the biggest fears that white America has always harbored is the insane notion that 1) only whites can lead this country and 2) if a person of color is elected to a high-ranking position, then white America will find itself the recipient of vengeance and payback for slavery, racism, etc. This film disputes these notions and allows the viewer to understand America in its truest form.
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    Rare Treat

    Although dated this is an excellent movie with Jones as commanding as usual. One of the most intriguing phenomena to watch is how his character grows into the bold and confident president one would expect of one who has tasted the power of the office. The ubiquitous theme of racism is dealt with adroitly. Moreover the Rod Serling screenplay makes one wish the old master would have left a greater body of work along these lines. The Movie is however much different from the book but this was for me a very enjoyable find, especially after a near 30 year search. I recently got a fair copy from videogrill on Ebay. As of this date 4-20-6 there is another copy being offer through the same online group.

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      James Earl Jones was interviewed about portraying a fictional black U.S. president a few days before Barack Obama was sworn in as President. Jones said that he had misgivings about the film, mostly because they were blindsided when the project (which was planned and budgeted as a TV movie) was released in theaters, and he wished that they'd had more time and resources to make a stronger final film.
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      Douglass Dilman: We live in a time when violence is offered up as the panacea. The bullet seems to be the final instrument of political discourse. Men die violently, we bury them, we mourn for them and we seek retribution. It's a deadly pattern... a quote from Genesis: "Behold the dreamer. Come now therefore and let us slay him and we shall see what has become of his dream." We cannot murder the tyranny by murdering the tyrant and we cannot murder the dream by murdering the dreamer. And if we justify the taking of any life in the name of our morality, we've done nothing but murder our morality.

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      Featured in The Dick Cavett Show: Episode dated 19 July 1972 (1972)

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      • 19 de julio de 1972 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
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      • ザ・マン~大統領の椅子~
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Samuel Goldwyn Studios - 7200 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, California, Estados Unidos(Studio)
    • Productoras
      • ABC Circle Films
      • Lorimar Productions
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      • 1.37 : 1

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