The President's Analyst (1967) gets its own thread

also the guy who plays the Soviet agent, Severn Darden, was a legendary Chicago improv guy whom you might remember as the baddie in the last two Planet of the Apes films (Roddy McDowall era).

The NYC public library has one copy of this, so i have the 6th reserve.

also in it are Will Geer, William Daniels and Arte Johnson, so there are your Frankenheimer, Pakula, Laugh-In elements. I can't quite figure out how Paramount greenlighted it, even in that weirder, riskier time in Hollywood.

Some of the trivia is good:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062153/trivia?ref_=ttfc_ql_trv_1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHQYPZqZ_kI

hell, I'd forgotten Ted Flicker also played a huge part in improv comedy in both Chicago and NY.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_J._Flicker#Theatre_career

Rewatched tonight; had forgotten nearly all the filigree, like William Daniels and Joan Darling as the armed liberal NJ couple kicking ass and packing heat in Chinatown.

That’s probably my favorite part, predictably. The weird hippie interlude sticks with me more, because the long, faraway shots are just so bizarre and out of place.

Like when the grass blades are in focus and the people are 20 yards away - what movie are we making here?

well Flicker's previous film was this little downtown NYC indie that probably cost $10,000, so he was just trying whatever, and Paramount shrugged til they saw the box office (or until J Edgar called them maybe).

(I guess that's meant to be the POV shot of the snipers?)

I don't need it explained! I like the weirdness, man.

I also appreciate you trying to give it context. I just thought that was another great little touch of WTF to add to the giant seven-banana lasagna that this movie already is.

I need a rewatch

it's really great that the feds made em overdub FBI and CIA with FBR and CEA

or just plain dub, rather

Gets better with every rescreen.

They were talking about this on the last ep of West Wing Thing podcast and it sounds p dope

https://kinolorber.com/product/the-president-s-analyst-special-edition

Greil Marcus rhapsodizes about Godfrey Cambridge regularly...I've never seen this.

It was pretty common in the cutout DVD bins years ago, so you might have a copy somewhere.