Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
Directed by Kevin Billington
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
Peter Cook infiltrates the office of a British public opinion poll firm run by an inept staff. Working for the wealthy owner, he uses his own surveys to get the manager fired and take over. He soon turns it around and makes frequent television appearances on topics of the day. He gets involved in politics and once again is so successful that he becomes a politician himself. Of course he is fake through and through, his opinions based solely on public opinion polls rather than any firmly held beliefs, even his wife is fake. The film remains remarkably relevant in the age of Trump, and is even eerily prescient.
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