The President's Analyst

(276)6.91 h 42 min196713+

At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job gets to him ...

Directors: Theodore J. Flicker

Starring: James Coburn Godfrey Cambridge Severn Darden

Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Suspense

Subtitles: English [CC]

Audio languages: English

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JohnDrakeMI6

The President's Analyst,......still a great hit and true to life great action and a piece of history.

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2017

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Ahead of it's time and still applies even today. Great comedy-action flick with mystery, The President, White House, National Security,
and the competition between all the international agencies with acronyms instead the the real name or abbreviation.
Instead of FBI it was FBR and the profile of the "Agents" was so funny as there was some Truth to it as well.
As it were, I happen to have see this when I was about 14 and 7 years later I actually went to work in the real Secret Service.
Most movies do NOT show all the real life facts, but they were very close for it's day and time.
James Coburn was great then and later did Flint and other spy related movies which was the trend back then.
Either way, I have an extensive law enforcement background and I got a real kick out of this movie even though
it was all in fun, ...but so very close to real life.

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Tom Fulery

A very trenchant dark comedy of Cold War paranoia & absurdity; still disturbingly relevant

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2020

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Back in 1967 someone wondered what it would happen if a President went off the deep end & became a mental case.

Well, now we know, and it's more of a horror show than a comedy. But back then the idea was hilarious fodder for a penetrating Cold War satire.

As a movie, The President's Analyst was brilliantly written, directed & acted. This is one of Coburn's best roles and his comedy chops are on full display. He is ideally cast as the cutting-edge psychiatrist who becomes the President's shrink, and is so disturbed by the President's mental state that he himself suffers a breakdown & escapes down a surreal rabbit hole of paranoid hallucinogenic delusion that makes the hallucinogenic '60s seem innocuous. The supporting cast is likewise fine. Darden is a droll, sardonic Russian spy & Pat Harrington perfectly personifies the 'banality of evil' of The Phone Company. And especially the great Godfrey Cambridge. who adds depth & humanity to this satirical '60s romp.

The President's Analyst is politically savvy, lampooning both right & left with equal finesse, while ultimately exposing the dark, sinister reality pulling the strings behind the scenes.

The movie was also quite prescient. While 'The Phone Company' did not end up taking over the world, even more ominous forces DID, in the form of computer, TV cable & cell phone companies. But the film was also rather naive, too, such as the Russian spy who is portrayed as benevolent & altruistic. Which seems bitterly ironic in 2020, with Russia maliciously disrupting our political process again, promoting anti-vaccination campaigns, etc..

But of course, the President's Analyst is a whimsical fantasy, and back in '67 we could laugh at the world's madness. One can only wish the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. had the mental acuity to allow psychiatric evaluation.

Today for some reason, finding humor in the current all-too-real insanity isn't quite as easy. But it's refreshing to revisit a time when we still could laugh in the face of lunacy.

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A. Pawlicki

They Are All Spies

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2013

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The widescreen DVD presentation is flawless. But on to the story. The only thing to really fear in the world of The President's Analyst is that you are not sufficiently paranoid. There are loads of great moments in this classic. The "They ARE all spies" dream scene is perhaps the best known, along with the arc of dead spies in the wheat field. But my favorite of all is the ambush leaving the Chinese restaurant, where the staid suburban couple (William Daniels and Joan Darling) hosting the Analyst deal with the would-be assassins whom they think are muggers. The wife's delighted cry of "Muggers" reflects her joy at finally getting the opportunity to put her hard-won karate skills to work, while the husband calmly blows away the "muggers" his wife knocks down. Coburn does a great job, Cambridge shines as the matter-of-fact good-guy assassin and Severn Darden is fine as the charming, accepting, take-it-as-it-comes Russian spy Kropotkin.

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Travel back to the Cold War and Flower Power.

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2018

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From 1967, James Coburn gives a terrific performance as the President's Analyst.....once he takes to post and has to spend a ton of time with the Prez, he soon finds that criminal and sinister forces think he knows a lot and move in to capture and extract the info from him. Keep in mind this is the flower power generation and the cold war times too this is so nostalgic which will either work of r you or it won't. James and the rest of very familiar members of this cast are all in for this movie and I loved it. This is mostly for those of us that were around then...me I caught the end of the 60's but still remember some of the stuff going on.

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Mooseville

Underrated Sixties Quasi Masterpiece.

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2014

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This is a viscerally immersive encounter with the evolving politics and culture of the 60s. The best thing about it is that it's by no means heavy-handed by way of that ambition. I'm aware that The President's Analyst is not a perfect film but it has a suitably crazy satirical edge to it that would be difficult to contain in any conventional film. Therefore I think it is a *great* film because it actually got a release and made it out the door. I also think Godfrey Cambridge did an outstanding job bringing forward, albeit scripted, racial paradoxes fairly ahead of its time, even in the 60s.

I could go into a lot of detail. But the film is truly the sum of its parts. It's unhinged, it's sardonic, satirical, at times over-acted, but I find it very likable.

OK, so there's on part of the film that drags on a bit for me. When Dr. Schaefer gets his big break and is appointed psychiatrist to the President, there's a music montage to reflect him "on top of the world" at various NY locals. That's minor criticism. It's alway very irreducibly "60s", so what'ya gonna do?

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Ted C. Jimmo

A brilliant satire on politics

Reviewed in Canada on May 21, 2016

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A brilliant satire on politics, mores, and why "Everyone hates the phone company." Mr Coburn was a great actor, and has a wonderful supporting cast. It's fun, funny and right on target, and no one was a better, smile than Mr Coburn.

Natalie

Great movie but it arrived with a very scratched up ...

Reviewed in Canada on January 25, 2016

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Great movie but it arrived with a very scratched up case, so it looks like a dog chewed it up a bit.

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