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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.
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Jul 19, 1972
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Paramount Pictures, ABC Circle Films, Lorimar Motion Pictures
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James Earl Jones
Douglass Dilman
M
Martin Balsam
Jim Talley
B
Burgess Meredith
Senator Watson
L
Lew Ayres
Noah Calvin
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William Windom
Arthur Eaton
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Barbara Rush
Kay Eaton
G
Georg Stanford Brown
Robert Wheeler
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Janet MacLachlan
Wanda
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Martin E. Brooks
Wheeler's Lawyer
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Simon Scott
Hugh Gaynor
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Patric Knowles
South African Consul
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Robert DoQui
Webson
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Anne Seymour
Ma Blore
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Jack Benny
Jack Benny
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Edward Faulkner
Secret Service Man
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Gilbert Green
Congressman Hand
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Lew Brown
Gilbert
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Philip Bourneuf
Chief Justice Williams
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Reginald Fenderson
Reverend Otis Waldren
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Elizabeth Ross
Mrs. Smelker
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