I remember that my family watched "The Enemy Within" a few decades ago, and a few weeks later caught part of "Seven Days in May" on TV and realized that it had the same plot, right down to the mention of Judas. We later watched all of "Seven Days in May". I've finally gotten around to watching "The Enemy Within" again.
Obviously it's not as good as the original. Not exactly a fair fight since the original had John Frankenheimer directing. Even so, we get effective performances out of Forest Whitaker, Sam Waterston, Dana Delany, Jason Robards and Josef Sommer. As for the prospect of a military coup against the US government, Hugo Chávez told Oliver Stone - in an interview for Stone's documentary "South of the Border" - that the US has never had a coup because there's no US embassy in Washington.
Obviously it's not as good as the original. Not exactly a fair fight since the original had John Frankenheimer directing. Even so, we get effective performances out of Forest Whitaker, Sam Waterston, Dana Delany, Jason Robards and Josef Sommer. As for the prospect of a military coup against the US government, Hugo Chávez told Oliver Stone - in an interview for Stone's documentary "South of the Border" - that the US has never had a coup because there's no US embassy in Washington.