Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaAfrican American senator Douglas Dillman becomes designated survivor of a tragic accident that kills the U. S. President. Eventually, Dillman becomes the first black U. S. President and atte... Leggi tuttoAfrican American senator Douglas Dillman becomes designated survivor of a tragic accident that kills the U. S. President. Eventually, Dillman becomes the first black U. S. President and attempts to end the bigotry standing in his way.African American senator Douglas Dillman becomes designated survivor of a tragic accident that kills the U. S. President. Eventually, Dillman becomes the first black U. S. President and attempts to end the bigotry standing in his way.
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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.
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.
Lo sapevi?
- QuizJames 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.
- ConnessioniFeatured in The Dick Cavett Show: Episodio datato 19 luglio 1972 (1972)
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