Hail! (aka Hail to the Chief, Mr. President, Washington, B.C) is an American political comedy film directed 1970-1971 by Fred Levinson to a screenplay by Phil Dusenberry and Larry Spiegel. The film was screened 1972,Filmmakers Newsletter - Volume 6 - Page 127 1972 - Strictly in the wrong place is Fred Levenson's American production, HAIL! This is a slick, sick, slapstick ... the end, though, HAIL! falls flat mainly for lack of backbone. . but not released until 1973.New York Times July 28, 1973: Screen 'Hail to the Chief':Farce on the President Is at the Playboy "No more Congress!" shouts the President of the United States. "No more Supreme Court! Just me!" The President, who looks a lot like Bob Newhart and is played by another seriously comic actor named Dan Resin, can barely contain his old-fashioned, down-home joy. Sufferin' catfish! He can now give full rein to his paranoia, so that the Attorney General is able to warn that "the Commies and their dupes" (pronounced "doo-pays") "will have to go elsewhere for their revolution."
Plot Made during the administration of President Richard Nixon, the movie follows a presidential adviser who learns that the Chief Executive is jailing and persecuting others who oppose his strict mandates.
Cast Dan Resin as The U.S. President Richard B. Shull as The Secretary of Health Dick O'Neill as The Attorney General Joseph Sirola Reverend Jimmy Williams Patricia Ripley as The First Lady Gary Sandy as Tom Goodman Willard Waterman as Vice President
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