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The President's Analyst (1967)

Starring: Dean Martin, Mercedes Cambridge Directed by: Theodore J. Flicker Rating: NR Genre: Comedy Other

Review Continuing our President's Week special edition, today we have a silly bit of fluff known as the President's Analyst. Drunken Crooner Dean Martin is Matt Helm, a suave smarmy dunderhead with delusions of Bondosity who is recruited by Mercedes Cambridge to pretend to be the Big Boss' cigar-chomping Freudian sound box. If it all sounds a little frivolous, we must remember that the sixties was not what most people would consider a "serious" decade (think of the dayglo colors and Dr. Seuss doing the sports on Laugh-In). Given the limitations of the era, I found it generally amusing and, at times, thought-provoking. Enjoy!