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SERENDIPITY CINEMA
"The President's Analyst" Movie Review
71. The
President's Analyst
This is one of those movies
that are really a child of their time.
You will find so many
references to the America of
the 1960's.
The paranoia of the previous
decade coupled with the "anything goes"
spirit of the 60's.
This with the background of
some of the
slyest comedic spies ever put
on film.
Some folks don't get it, the
pacing seems
all wrong, the humor is almost
British in its dryness.
But, if you take it at the
lovely
silliness that it holds out
to you, then you
will have the kind of fun that
the "Flint"
films gave you, with just a
touch of
Thurber or Sheperd thrown in.
Here's the cast:
James Coburn. . . . Dr. Sidney Schaefer
Godfrey
Cambridge. . . . Don Masters, CEA Agent
Severn
Darden. . . . V.I. Kydor Kropotkin
Joan
Delaney. . . . Nan Butler
Pat
Harrington Jr.. . . . Arlington Hewes,
President of TPC
Barry
McGuire. . . . Old Wrangler
Jill
Banner. . . . Snow White
Eduard
Franz. . . . Ethan Allen Cocket, CEA Director
Walter
Burke. . . . Henry Lux, FBR Chief
Will
Geer. . . . Dr. Lee-Evans
William
Daniels. . . . Wynn Quantrill
Joan
Darling. . . . Jeff Quantrill
Sheldon
Collins. . . . Bing Quantrill
Arte
Johnson. . . . Sullivan, FBR Agent
Martin
Horsey. . . . 1st Puddlian (Canadian Secret
Service)
You may not understand how
we felt about the phone company back then,
but there are a lot of the jokes here that even kids under 30 could get.
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--posted by Wayne
Sunday, December 04, 2005
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