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Release Date:
21 December 1967 (USA) more
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Only two people on earth want Sidney Schaefer alive. Sidney Schaefer. And the President of the United States. more
Plot:
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

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 (as Pat Harrington)
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)
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Runtime:
103 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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'Barry McGuire' (Old Wrangler) made his own flowered pants for the movie. During that time they were quite the rage. more
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Continuity: Don gives Sidney an ID badge. Looking over Sidney's shoulder, both hands are on the ID, but when seen from the front his hands are apart and the ID is in his right hand. more
Quotes:
Nan Butler: [indicating blinking red alarm light] What's that all about?
Dr. Sidney Schaefer: It's him! He needs me.
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15 out of 19 people found the following comment useful.
Discover or Rediscover this movie, 4 August 2001
Author: mercuryix from Los Angeles

I forgot what a masterpiece of paranoia this movie is; only in this

case, it isn't paranoia, everyone really IS out to get you! This is

James Coburn's best performance in my opinion, as a psychiatrist

who has been conscripted to become the President's analyst, and

when he decides to quit, discovers just how disposal American

citizens are. This is my pick for THE paranoia movie of the 1960s.

That this movie came out in 1967 is incredible; it deals with

assassination carried out casually by the FBI, the CIA, the violence

that has been absorbed as wholesome by America, the escape

from violence into sex and drugs, and much, much more, all

during the time of the Vietnam War and zero tolerance for differing

views. The speech by the black FBI agent in the beginning on

how he discovered racism is especially painful, and remarkable

given the time period.

The movie is hysterically funny, cynical, black, and most ironically,

hopeful, and a must-see for any film lover. The script is terrific, but

the direction stands out in the inspired camerawork. This

obviously was a labor of love by the director/writer, and

interestingly, one of only two or three non-t.v. films he ever directed.

If you see it, you may be bored by today's sex and gore standards.

But if you remember the 60s, keep them in mind when you see

this film. You'll wonder how it ever got made.

Ten out of ten stars, because there isn't anything I can find wrong

with this film; it's brilliant in every aspect.

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