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Ike

IMDb 6.5 1979 • 97 min • DramaWar & Politics

Director

Melville Shavelson

Country

US

Plot Summary

Ike, also known as Ike: The War Years, is a 1979 television miniseries about the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The screenplay by Melville Shavelson is based on Kay Summersby's 1948 memoir Eisenhower Was My Boss and her 1975 autobiography, Past Forgetting: My Love Affair. The series aired from May 3–6, 1979 on ABC. During World War II, General Dwight D. 'Ike' Eisenhower serves as supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe. On a personal level, he has an extramarital affair with his driver Kay Summersby.

Top Cast

Lowell Thomas
Lowell Thomas Narrator (voice)
Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lee Remick
Lee Remick Kay Summersby
Dana Andrews
Dana Andrews Gen. George C. Marshall
J.D. Cannon
J.D. Cannon Gen. Walter Bedell Smith