The Man (1972)

Directors

Joseph Sargent

Cast

James Earl Jones

The story

When the President of the United States and speaker of the House of Representatives are killed at a summit in Frankfurt when the building hosting them collapses, Vice President Noah Calvin, suffering from a terminal illness, refuses to assume of the office of president. Secretary of State Arthur Eaton corrects a popular misconception that he is next in the line of succession, who is actually Senate president pro tem Douglass Dilman. Dilman, a black man, arrives at the White House and is sworn in as president.

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