Severn Darden

Real Genius -- Three brainy college students plot an elaborate revenge when they learn they've been inadvertently working on a secret weapon for the military.

Ronald Neame’s Hopscotch is a smart and stylish tale of international intrigue and a cat-and-mouse comedy.

A teenage brother and sister are released from the mental institution where they were put after being suspected of their parents' murder. Their older sister takes them into the house which she shares with a wealthy widow. Soon after Winters discovers the truth about the pair, she is found hacked to death.

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.