The Man
It took an accident to make this man President of the United States. What they do to him now won't be an accident.
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, Senate President pro tempore Douglas Dilman (James Earl Jones) suddenly becomes the first black man to occupy the Oval Office. The events from that day to the next election when he must decide if he will actually run challenge his skills as a politician and leader.
Crew and Cast
Joseph SargentDirector
James Earl JonesDouglass Dilman
Martin BalsamJim Talley
Burgess MeredithSenator Watson
Lew AyresNoah Calvin
William WindomArthur Eaton
Barbara RushKay Eaton
Georg Stanford BrownRobert Wheeler
Janet MacLachlanWanda
Martin E. BrooksWheeler's Lawyer
Simon ScottHugh Gaynor
Patric KnowlesSouth African Consul
Robert DoQuiWebson
Anne SeymourMa Blore
Jack BennyJack Benny
Edward FaulknerSecret Service Man
Gilbert GreenCongressman HandLew BrownGilbert
Philip BourneufChief Justice WilliamsReginald FendersonReverend Otis Waldren
Elizabeth RossMrs. Smelker
Barry RussoHaley
Garry WalbergPierce
Ted HartleyPress Secretary
Charles LampkinCongressman Walding
Lawrence CookCongressman StellerVince HowardCongressman Eckworth
Leonard StoneCongressman Parmel
Howard K. SmithHoward K. SmithBill Lawrence
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Info
- Status
- Released
- Released
- 19 July 1972
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Rating
- G
- TMDB score
- 6.5 / 10 (4 votes)
Production
- Director
- Joseph Sargent
- Writers
- Irving Wallace, Rod Serling
- Studios
- Paramount Pictures, ABC Circle Films, Lorimar Motion Pictures
- Countries
- United States of America
Languages
- Original
- English
- Spoken
- English