The Man (1972)
July 19, 1972Release Date
The Man (1972)
July 19, 1972Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
James Earl Jones
Douglass Dilman
Martin Balsam
Jim Talley
Burgess Meredith
Senator Watson
William Windom
Arthur Eaton
Lew Ayres
Noah Calvin
Barbara Rush
Kay Eaton
Joseph Sargent
Director
Georg Stanford Brown
Robert Wheeler
Irving Wallace
Writer
Rod Serling
Writer
Janet MacLachlan
Wanda
Lee Rich
Producer
Martin E. Brooks
Wheeler's Lawyer
Jerry Goldsmith
Composer
Simon Scott
Hugh Gaynor
Edward Rosson
Cinematographer
Patric Knowles
South African Consul
Robert DoQui
Webson
Anne Seymour
Ma Blore
Jack Benny
Jack Benny
Edward Faulkner
Secret Service Man
Gilbert Green
Congressman Hand
Lew Brown
Gilbert
Philip Bourneuf
Chief Justice Williams
Details.
Wiki.
The Man is a 1972 American political drama film directed by Joseph Sargent and starring James Earl Jones. Jones plays Douglass Dilman, the President pro tempore of the United States Senate, who succeeds to the presidency through a series of unforeseeable events, thereby becoming both the first African-American president and the first wholly unelected one. The screenplay, written by Rod Serling, is largely based upon The Man, a novel by Irving Wallace. In addition to being the first black president more than thirty-six years before the real-world occurrence, the fictional Dilman was also the first president elected to neither that office nor to the Vice Presidency, foreshadowing the real-world elevation of Gerald Ford by less than twenty-five months.