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The Man (1972)
In this Year of Obama, you've got to see The Man, in which James Earl Jones plays Douglass Dilman, a nondescript president pro tem of the Senate but nonetheless third in line for the presidency. Because of a couple of incredible strokes of fate, he becomes the first black POTUS, literally, overnight.
Of course, the power structure considers Dilman to be an accident of history and a caretaker president. But he proves to be made of much sterner stuff and winds up pursuing his party's nomination for a full term. The great Rod Serling wrote the screenplay, based on the novel by Irving Wallace. The movie was directed by the distinguished filmmaker Joseph Sargent (MacArthur, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three). —Jakeem
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