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This is a film that has become increasingly relevant with a person, that many feel is certifiably insane, as president of the United States and the film shows remarkable prescience in predicting the collapse of normal checks and balances in a liberal democracy and how this can lead at least to an authoritarian regime if not necessarily totalitarian , and we in Australia are increasingly feeling the chill winds of this authoritarianism as our own Australian Government winds back cherished human rights all in the name of fighting 'terrorism'. Although made forty three years ago, this film is more timely than ever. One small problem in that the negative seems to have faded and so the print has a washed out look. Apart from that t is good to see two big Hollywood names, Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark, who were noted for their progressive and tolerant left liberal political outlooks appearing together in a film that is never aging and even more relevant now.