The Phantom President

Too bad for the presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokesman; at first, he even fools Blair's girlfriend Felicia, providing a romantic complication. But as election eve approaches, the conspirators face the problem of what to do with Varney...who has difficult decisions of his own to make.

• usa president
• mistaken identity
• medicine show
• election
• political campaign
• pre-code
• impersonation
• presidential candidate
• double
• political satire
• romantic entanglements
• satirical
• political conventions