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To: axial who wrote (21795)	6/2/2007 2:33:40 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

I thought I lost it for a moment. Here's the flick I alluded to earlier: -- Science Fiction *THE PRESIDENT’S ANALYST* Rating: * * * USA. 1967. Director/Screenplay – Theodore J. Flicker, Producer – Stanley Rubin, Photography – William A. Fraker, Music – Lalo Schifrin, Production Design – Pato Guzman. Production Company – Panpiper Productions.Cast:James Coburn (Dr Sidney Schaefer), Godfrey Cambridge (Don Masters), Severn Darden (Kropotkin), Joan Delaney (Nan Butler), Pat Harrington (Arlington Hewes), Barry McGuire (Old Wrangler), James Gregory (President), William Daniels (Wynn Quantrill), Will Geer (Dr Lee-Evans), Jill Banner (Snow White) Plot: Psychoanalyst Sidney Schaefer is selected by the Secret Service as a suitable candidate to become therapist to The President. But once installed in Washington, he is driven crazy by the obsession with security – the Secret Service refuse to allow him to spend the night with his girlfriend lest he talk in his sleep and give away state secrets. Unable to take the paranoia anymore he decides to run away. But there he is pursued by every international spy agency who all want to obtain the information in his head, by his own side who want to liquidate him as a security risk, and finally by the Telephone Company who want to enlist him in their scheme to implant micro-sized telephones inside the nation’s head. This was one of the better among the horde of mostly rather silly spy films that came out in the 1960s exploiting the success of the James Bond films. Where most of the other films played out a maximum of playboy innuendo and Swinging 60s giddiness, The President’s Analyst is one of the few amongst the spy fad that amounted to a sharp and rather biting satire of Cold War politics. [Star James Coburn had earlier also appeared in one of the more amusing of the silly Bond film copies – Our Man Flint (1965)]. The satire veers sometimes unevenly between the inspired and the silly. But on the whole it generally succeeds. The initial paranoia scenes go on too long and the hippie interlude is dated and even a little too sentimental today. And the slightly bittersweet sequence where James Coburn’s psychologist analyzes the childhood of Russian spy Severn Darden is too protracted and seems to go against the rest of the film’s grain. But there are many funny sequences that have an appealing bite – like those with the militant suburban liberal Quantrills – “We’ll disarm when the conservatives disarm” – and the end scenes with the Telephone Company and their particularly believable plans for implanting neural telephones. Director Theodore J. Flicker throws in one fabulously funny visual sequence where James Coburn and Jill Banner make out in a field, their position only designated by balloons above the grass, while unnoticed around them a whole ring of spies skulk and eliminate one another. moria.co.nz ------