You may have seen one of these films but there is also a stage version of this 1959 novel, "The Manchurian" this
In the film version of Seven Days in May, Fredric March, portraying the 
... of the film's 1964 release, and the Cold War is still a problem (in the 1962 book, 
... officers in on the plot, who have no choice but to resign and call off the coup.