![]() Director John Frankenheimer brings much of the same realistic detail and nerve-wracking tension as he had two years earlier in his better-known film “The Manchurian Candidate.” Lancaster’s general schemes to stage a coup against the president, played by Frederic March, for being too soft on Russia. Sometimes they play out like stark stage dramas: In 1964, “Seven Days in May” cast a coldly calculating general (played by Burt Lancaster) against another military man (Kirk Douglas) with the fate of democracy in the United States in play. (The fictional kind, that is.) In the past 60 years, there’s a long list of great thrillers with a political bent. We’re lucky to live in an age of political thrillers. ![]() ![]() It’s hard not to read some of the characteristics of any romantic relationship into “The Diplomat,” and it often seems like a play on the marriage of Hillary and Bill Clinton: She’s tough as nails, he’s smooth as silk - and trust issues abound. ![]()
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