Joan Darling

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 1960's; the satire was so potent, in fact, that when the NBC network broadcast the film in the early 1970's, it was compelled to remove the picture's punchline.

Jon Voight made his screen debut in this 1967 satire about country rube Frank, who leaves his rural home for the big city of Chicago. After he meets luscious moll Plethora (Monique van Vooren), mobsters shoot him and his wounds endow him with super powers. Under the tutelage of the Good Doctor (Severn Darden), "Fearless Frank" becomes a sophisticated crime fighter, but finds that he must contend with a nefarious twin named "False Frank."

He's renowned New York psychiatrist Sidney Schaefer (superstar James Coburn), the top man in his field, who's just been given some startling news - he's been chosen to be the President's personal analyst!...only to discover an international cadre of ruthless spies are out to kidnap him for his inside information.

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 and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him.