A big budget bonanza for IT IS HIGH.
Spies pursue the President's shrink (James Coburn) in this cult-classic black comedy about an all-powerful phone company run by robots. With Godfrey Cambridge, Pat Harrington, Will Geer, Arte Johnson and - drum roll, please - Barry "Eve of Destruction" McGuire!
The actual hippie band Clear Light plays a hippie band. Supposedly, the Grateful Dead turned down the role. This was the first movie greenlit by Paramount head Robert Evans, who later claimed to have been squeezed by the FBI for the way it was depicted. In fact, Evans changed "FBI" to "FBR." I bet that sure fooled 'em.
Here's the trailer.
I should probably get around to seeing this. People have recommended it to me for decades. I wonder if it holds up.
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