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Director: Theodore J Flicker
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From Time Out Film Guide
A neglected satire whose premise is the secrets to which the US President's shrink is privy, and the ways in which these endanger him. Pursued by everyone from foreign agents to security organisations like the FBI and the CIA, Coburn quickly becomes a picaresque hero on the run through an America whose psychological landscape is every bit as absurd as Hunter Thompson's Las Vegas. Inevitably, in a paranoid conspiracy-theory movie about ten years before its time, some sequences - like a psychedelic sojourn with a hippy group - are now badly dated. But overall it's hilarious stuff, held together by Coburn's tongue-in-cheek performance, one of his best.Author: RM
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- Frank James said...
- Posted on Oct 03 2009 20:45 This is one of the funniest and political satires I have seen... along with Mel Brooks and monte python and James Bond all rolled into one-but even better.
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Cast & crew
Director: Theodore J Flicker
Producer: Stanley Rubin
Cast: James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden, Joan Delaney, Pat Harrington, Barry McGuire, Eduard Franz, Will Geer, William Daniels, Joan Darling full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 103 mins
US Release: Dec 21 1967
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