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The President's analyst

The President's Analyst is James Coburn, whose position makes him privy to any number of delicate government secrets. Thus Coburn becomes a most desirable prize for several secret-agent organizations, including the CEA and the FBR (we know who these folks are really supposed to be, even though the phony names were crudely dubbed onto the soundtrack after the film was completed). When Coburn becomes expendable, he finds a pair of strong allies in the form of likeable political assassin Godfrey Cambridge and gay Soviet spy Severn Darden. The main plot involves an insidious, unnamed concern that wishes to harness Coburn's talents in order to brainwash the president ? and everyone else in America ? into submission. The President's Analyst is a terrific, on-target satire of virtually every sacred cow of the late 1960s; the satire was so potent, in fact, that when the NBC network broadcast the film in the early 1970s, it was compelled to remove the picture's punchline.

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  • "The President's Analyst is James Coburn, whose position makes him privy to any number of delicate government secrets. Thus Coburn becomes a most desirable prize for several secret-agent organizations, including the CEA and the FBR (we know who these folks are really supposed to be, even though the phony names were crudely dubbed onto the soundtrack after the film was completed). When Coburn becomes expendable, he finds a pair of strong allies in the form of likeable political assassin Godfrey Cambridge and gay Soviet spy Severn Darden. The main plot involves an insidious, unnamed concern that wishes to harness Coburn's talents in order to brainwash the president ? and everyone else in America ? into submission. The President's Analyst is a terrific, on-target satire of virtually every sacred cow of the late 1960s; the satire was so potent, in fact, that when the NBC network broadcast the film in the early 1970s, it was compelled to remove the picture's punchline."@en
  • "When the President's top-secret psychiatrist quits, he has to go on the run when spies from all sides want to know his secrets."@en
  • "When the President's top-secret psychiatrist quits, he has to go on the run when spies from all sides want to know his secrets."
  • ""Unknown to successful New York psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Schaefer, one of his patients, CEA (Central Enquiries Agency) agent Don Masters, has been evaluating him for the important task of becoming the President's analyst. After being sworn to secrecy, Schaefer and his newfound girl friend, Nan, move to Washington. Here he meets CEA head Ethan Allen Cocket and FBR (Federal Board of Regulations) chief Henry Lux, who are suspicious of each other. Though a great help to the President, Schaefer, unable to speak with anyone, soon acquires the President's tensions, constantly feels that he is being followed, and even becomes wary of Nan. Seeking relief, Schaefer mingles with a White House tour group and leaves Washington for New Jersey with the Quantrills, a typical gun-carrying, karate-practicing, eavesdropping American family, who boast of being liberals and are cautious of their rightwing neighbors. Schaefer, now being pursued by secret agents of other nationalities as well, escapes with a group of nomadic hippies. Kidnaped by Canadian Secret Service agents disguised as a Liverpool rock group, they are additionally abducted by Russian spy Kropotkin. Schaefer convinces Kropotkin that he needs an analyst, and they set out together for Washington. En route, Schaefer is [kidnapped] by the Telephone Company, which, angered over constant complaints about its inefficiency, plans to take over the country and use Schaefer to brainwash the President. Masters and Kropotkin, old friends from previous clandestine assignments, join forces, rescue Schaefer, and destroy the Telephone Company's headquarters. Returning to Washington, Schaefer resumes his job and marries Nan, who has been cleared on a security level equal to his own. The couple, accompanied by Masters and Kropotkin, enjoy Christmas evening together, unaware they are being watched by Telephone Company automatons"--AFI catalog, 1961-1970."@en
  • "Hostile agents want the President's analyst captured to learn what secrets have been confessed in the Oval Office."
  • "Hostile agents want the President's analyst captured to learn what secrets are confessed in the Oval Office."@en

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