1964 | USA | NR | 113 min.
Here’s the premise of Curtis Bernhardt’s screwball
comedy: “Hey, wouldn’t it be hilarious if
a woman were president?” Spoiler alert, 1964
screenwriters: It’ll take five more decades for
that craziness to go down, so knock yourselves
out. Doug Benson, Michael Moore, and friends
will have a “Reefer Madness”-style field day with
this painfully sexist romp, which depicts
the President’s poor, beleaguered First Husband
suffering the indignities of sleeping
in a frilly bedroom designed for first ladies and
giving drunken tours of the White House while
his wife single-handedly runs the country. Maybe
if she gets pregnant, she’ll come ‘round to her
proper wifely responsibilities? Get ready for an
election-year takedown of this relic from a notso-distant
American past.