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All the President's Men
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Directed by	Alan J. Pakula
Screenplay by	William Goldman
Based on	All the President'south Men by Carl Bernstein Bob Woodward
Produced by	Walter Coblenz
Starring	Dustin Hoffman Robert Redford Jack Warden Martin Balsam Hal Holbrook Jason Robards
Cinematography	Gordon Willis
Edited by	Robert 50. Wolfe
Music by	David Shire
Production company	Wildwood Enterprises
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release appointment	April four, 1976 (1976-04-04)
Running time	138 minutes
Country	U.s.a.
Linguistic communication	English
Budget	$viii.5 million
Box office	$70.half dozen 1000000[1]

All the President'south Men is a 1976 American biographical political drama-thriller film about the Watergate scandal that brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon. Directed by Alan J. Pakula with a screenplay by William Goldman, it is based on the 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post.

The film stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Woodward and Bernstein, respectively; information technology was produced past Walter Coblenz for Redford's Wildwood Enterprises.

The film was nominated in multiple Oscar, Golden Earth and BAFTA categories, and in 2010, the movie was selected for preservation in the United States National Motion picture Registry by the Library of Congress as existence "culturally, historically, or aesthetically meaning."^{[ii] [3]}

Plot [edit]

On June 17, 1972, security baby-sit Frank Wills at the Watergate circuitous finds a door's bolt taped over to prevent information technology from locking. He calls the police, who detect and abort v burglars in the Democratic National Commission headquarters within the complex. The side by side morning, The Washington Post assigns new reporter Bob Woodward to the local courthouse to cover the story, which is considered of minor importance.

Woodward learns that the five men—James West. McCord Jr. and iv Cuban-Americans from Miami—possessed electronic bugging equipment and are represented past a high-priced "state club" chaser. At the arraignment, McCord identifies himself in court equally having recently left the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the others are also revealed to have CIA ties. Woodward connects the burglars to East. Howard Hunt, an employee of President Richard Nixon'due south White Business firm counsel Charles Colson, and formerly of the CIA.

Carl Bernstein, some other Post reporter, is assigned to cover the Watergate story with Woodward. The 2 young men are reluctant partners but piece of work well together. Executive editor Benjamin Bradlee believes that their work lacks reliable sources and is not worthy of the Post's front page, merely he encourages further investigation.

Woodward contacts a senior authorities official, an anonymous source whom he has used before and refers to as "Deep Throat." Communicating secretly, using a flag placed in a balustrade flowerpot to bespeak meetings, they run into at night in an underground parking garage. Deep Throat speaks in riddles and metaphors, avoiding substantial facts almost the Watergate burglary, but advises Woodward to "follow the money."

Woodward and Bernstein connect the five burglars to corrupt activities involving campaign contributions to Nixon's Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP or CREEP). This includes a check for $25,000 paid by Kenneth H. Dahlberg, whom Miami regime identified when investigating the Miami-based burglars. However, Bradlee and others at the Mail service nevertheless uncertainty the investigation and its dependence on sources such as Deep Throat, wondering why the Nixon assistants should break the constabulary when the president is near certain to defeat his opponent, Democratic nominee George McGovern.

Through onetime Pitter-patter treasurer Hugh W. Sloan, Jr., Woodward and Bernstein connect a slush fund of hundreds of thousands of dollars to White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman—"the 2d most important human in this state"—and to former attorney general John N. Mitchell, now caput of Pitter-patter. They learn that CREEP was financing a "ratfucking" campaign to sabotage Democratic presidential candidates a year before the Watergate burglary, when Nixon was lagging Edmund Muskie in the polls.

While Bradlee's need for thoroughness compels the reporters to obtain other sources to confirm the Haldeman connexion, the White House issues a non-deprival deprival of the Post's higher up-the-fold story. Bradlee continues to encourage investigation.

Woodward once again meets secretly with Deep Throat and demands that he be less evasive. Deep Pharynx reveals that Haldeman masterminded the Watergate pause-in and cover-up. He too states that the embrace-upward was non merely intended to camouflage the Creep involvement simply also to hibernate "covert operations" involving "the entire U.Due south. intelligence community," including the CIA and FBI. He warns Woodward and Bernstein that their lives, and those of others, are in danger. When the two relay this information to Bradlee, he urges them to carry on despite the risk.

On January xx, 1973, Bernstein and Woodward type the total story, while a television in the newsroom shows Nixon taking the oath of part for his second term as president. A montage of Watergate-related teletype headlines from the following years is shown, ending with the report of Nixon'southward resignation and the inauguration of Gerald Ford on Baronial 9, 1974.

Cast [edit]

• Dustin Hoffman equally Carl Bernstein
• Robert Redford equally Bob Woodward
• Jack Warden as Harry Grand. Rosenfeld
• Martin Balsam as Howard Simons
• Hal Holbrook as "Deep Throat"
• Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee
• Jane Alexander as the Bookkeeper (Judy Hoback Miller)
• Stephen Collins as Hugh West. Sloan Jr.
• Ned Beatty every bit Martin Dardis
• Meredith Baxter every bit Deborah Murray Sloan
• Penny Fuller as Emerge Aiken (based on Marilyn Berger)^[4]
• Penny Peyser equally Sharon Lyons
• Lindsay Crouse as Kay Eddy
• Robert Walden equally Donald Segretti
• F. Murray Abraham as Sgt. Paul Leeper
• David Arkin as Eugene Bachinski
• Richard Herd every bit James W. McCord, Jr. (Watergate Burglar)
• Henry Calvert as Bernard Barker (Watergate Burglar)
• Dominic Chianese every bit Eugenio Martínez (Watergate Burglar)
• Ron Hale as Frank Sturgis (Watergate Burglar)
• Nate Esformes every bit Virgilio R. Gonzales (Watergate Burglar)
• Nicolas Coster equally Markham
• Joshua Shelley equally Al Lewis
• Ralph Williams as Ray Steuben
• Gene Lindsey every bit Alfred D. Baldwin (Watergate "sentry")
• Polly Holliday as Dardis' secretary
• Carol Trost as Ben Bradlee'south secretary
• James Karen equally Hugh Sloan'south attorney
• Basil Hoffman equally Assistant Metro Editor
• Stanley Bennett Dirt every bit Banana Metro Editor
• John McMartin equally Foreign Editor
• John Devlin every bit Metro Editor
• Paul Lambert as National Editor
• Richard Venture equally Assistant Metro Editor
• John Furlong as News Desk Editor
• Valerie Curtin as Miss Milland
• Jess Osuna every bit Joe (FBI agent)
• Allyn Ann McLerie as Carolyn Abbott
• Christopher Murray as Photo Adjutant
• Frank Wills as himself (the bodily security baby-sit at the Watergate circuitous)
• Cara Duff-MacCormick as Tammy Ulrich (uncredited)
• John Randolph as John Mitchell (voice) (uncredited)

Differences from the volume [edit]

Unlike the book, the film covers just the commencement seven months of the Watergate scandal, from the fourth dimension of the break-in to Nixon'south second inauguration on January 20, 1973.^[5] The movie introduced the catchphrase "follow the money" in relation to the case, which did not appear in the book or in any Watergate documentation.^{[half dozen]}

Production [edit]

Redford began asking most the Watergate break-in while promoting The Candidate and then read Woodward and Bernstein's Watergate stories in The Washington Mail service while waiting to start filming The Way We Were. Redford beginning spoke with Woodward in Nov 1972 subsequently the mistake involving Hugh Sloan.^[7]

Redford bought the rights to Woodward and Bernstein's book in 1974 for $450,000 with the idea to conform information technology into a film with a budget of $v 1000000.^[8] Ben Bradlee, executive editor of The Washington Post, realized that the film was going to be produced regardless of his approval and believed that it fabricated "more than sense to try to influence it factually."^[eight] He hoped that the film would show newspapers "strive very difficult for responsibility."^[8]

Redford hired William Goldman to write the script in 1974. Goldman has said that Woodward was extremely helpful to him but that Bernstein was non. Goldman wrote that his crucial decision regarding the screenplay'due south structure was to discard the second half of the volume.^[9] Subsequently he delivered his outset draft in Baronial 1974, Warner Bros. agreed to finance the film.

Redford was non happy with Goldman's first draft.^[8] Woodward and Bernstein read it and also did non like it. Redford asked for their suggestions, only Bernstein and his girlfriend, author Nora Ephron, wrote their ain draft. Redford showed this draft to Goldman, suggesting that it might incorporate some material that he could integrate, but Goldman later chosen Redford's acceptance of the Bernstein–Ephron draft a "gutless expose."^[10] Redford after expressed dissatisfaction with the Ephron–Bernstein typhoon, maxim, "a lot of it was sophomoric and way off the beat."^[8] According to Goldman, "in what they wrote, Bernstein was sure catnip to the ladies."^[10] He also said that one of Bernstein and Ephron'south scenes was included in the final flick, a flake in which Bernstein deceives a secretary in order to run into someone, something that was non factually true.

Alan J. Pakula was hired to direct and requested rewrites from Goldman. In a 2011 biography, Redford claimed that he and Pakula held all-twenty-four hour period sessions working on the script. Pakula spent hours interviewing editors and reporters, taking notes of their comments.

In 2011, Richard Stayton wrote an commodity for Written By magazine^[11] following his comparison of several drafts of the script, including the final production draft. He concluded that Redford's and Pakula's contributions were not significant, that Goldman was properly credited as the writer and that the final draft had "William Goldman'southward singled-out signature on each page."^[12]

Casting [edit]

Redford get-go selected Al Pacino to play Bernstein, only later decided that Dustin Hoffman was a better fit for the role.

Jason Robards was e'er Redford's option to play Ben Bradlee. Nonetheless, Bradlee had recommended George C. Scott for the office, and he was somewhat unimpressed when Robards visited the Post offices to develop a feel for the newsroom. In advance of the shoot, Bradlee told Robards: "Just don't make me look similar an asshole." At first, Pakula was worried that Robards could not conduct Bradlee's easy elegance and command authority. Karl Malden, Hal Holbrook (who would play Deep Throat), John Forsythe, Leslie Nielsen, Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Quinn, Gene Hackman, Burt Lancaster, Robert Stack, Robert Mitchum and Tv set Savalas were also considered for the office.^[13]

Grapheme actor Martin Balsam played managing editor Howard Simons. Co-ordinate to Bradlee, Simons felt that his interest with the existent story was greatly diminished in the script.

Bradlee teased Post publisher Katharine Graham most who would play her in the motion picture. "Names like Katharine Hepburn, Lauren Bacall and Patricia Neal were tossed out—by usa—to make her feel good," Bradlee said. "And names like Edna May Oliver or Marie Dressler, if it felt like teasing fourth dimension. And and so her role was dropped from the final script, half to her relief."^[14]

Redford and Hoffman divided top billing, with Redford billed higher up Hoffman in the posters and trailers while Hoffman was billed in a higher place Redford in the film itself, in the aforementioned style in which James Stewart and John Wayne divided top billing for John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance in 1962.

Filming [edit]

Hoffman and Redford visited The Washington Mail 'south offices for months, attention news conferences and conducting research for their roles.^[8] As the Post denied the production permission to shoot in its newsroom, gear up designers took measurements of the newspaper's offices and took many photographs. Boxes of trash were gathered and transported to sets recreating the newsroom on two soundstages in Hollywood's Burbank Studios at a price of $200,000. The filmmakers went to bully lengths for accuracy and authenticity, including making replicas of outdated phone books.^[8] Well-nigh 200 desks at $500 each were purchased from the same firm that had sold desks to the Mail service in 1971. The desks were painted the same color as those of the newsroom. The product was supplied with a brick from the principal anteroom of the Mail service so that it could be duplicated in fiberglass for the set. Principal photography began on May 12, 1975, in Washington, D.C.^[8]

Reception [edit]

Box office [edit]

All the President'due south Men grossed $7,016,001 in its starting time week from 604 theatres, placing it atop the U.S. box office.^{[15] [16]} Information technology eventually grossed $70.6 million at the box office.^[1]

Disquisitional response [edit]

At the time of the movie'south release, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film 3+ 1⁄2 stars out of 4, writing: "It provides the nearly observant report of working journalists nosotros're e'er likely to see in a feature film. And it succeeds brilliantly in suggesting the mixture of exhilaration, paranoia, self-uncertainty, and courage that permeated The Washington Post as its two young reporters went afterward a presidency."^[17] Multifariousness magazine praised "ingenious management [...] and scripting" that overcame the difficult lack of drama that a story most reporters running downwardly a story might otherwise accept.^[xviii] Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader was critical of the writing and called the moving-picture show "pedestrian" and "a written report in missed opportunities."^[19] Factor Siskel named information technology the best film of 1976 on his yr-finish list.

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 94% rating based on 64 reviews, with an boilerplate rating of ix.ten/10. The website'southward critics consensus reads: "A taut, solidly acted paean to the benefits of a gratuitous press and the dangers of unchecked power, made all the more constructive by its origins in real-life events."^[xx] On Metacritic, which gives a weighted boilerplate score, the pic has a score of 84 out of 100, based on reviews from 13 critics, indicating "universal acclamation."^[21]

Accolades [edit]

• In 2015, The Hollywood Reporter polled hundreds of Academy members, request them to revote on past controversial decisions. Academy members indicated that, given a second risk, they would honour the 1977 Oscar for All-time Picture to All the President's Men instead of to Rocky.^[22]
• It became ane of the seven films to win Best Moving picture from three out of four major U.South. film critics' groups (LA, NBR, NY, NSFC) along with Nashville, Terms of Endearment, Goodfellas, Lurid Fiction, The Hurt Locker, and Drive My Automobile.
• In 2007, Entertainment Weekly ranked All the President'south Men every bit one of its 25 Powerful Political Thrillers.^[23]

American Film Institute [edit]

• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills – #57
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains:
  • Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein – #27 Heroes
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes
  • "Follow the money." – Nominated.
• AFI'south 100 Years...100 Cheers – #34
• AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition – #77

"All the President's Men" Revisited [edit]

Sundance Productions, which Redford owns, produced a two-hour documentary entitled "All the President'due south Men" Revisited.^[35] Circulate on Discovery Channel Worldwide on March 24, 2013, the documentary focuses on the Watergate case and the subsequent picture adaptation. It simultaneously recounts how The Washington Post bankrupt Watergate and how the scandal unfolded, going behind the scenes of the movie. It explores how the Watergate scandal would be covered in the present solar day, whether such a scandal could happen over again and who Richard Nixon was as a man. West. Marking Felt, deputy director of the FBI during the early 1970s, revealed his identity as Deep Throat in 2005, and this is as well covered in the documentary.

Footage from the motion picture is included, as are interviews with Redford and Hoffman as well as with real-life fundamental characters including Woodward, Bernstein, Bradlee, John Dean, Alexander Butterfield and Fred Thompson, who served as minority counsel to the Senate Watergate Commission in his start major public advent. Contemporary media figures such as Tom Brokaw, who was NBC News' White Firm correspondent during the scandal, Jill Abramson, Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart besides are featured in the documentary, which earned a 2013 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special.^{[36] [37]}

See too [edit]

• The Terminal Days (1989 film)
• The Mail service (2017 moving picture)
• All the Prime number Government minister's Men (2021 documentary)

Notes [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} "All the President's Men, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on January 29, 2012. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
2. ^ "Hollywood Blockbusters, Independent Films and Shorts Selected for 2010 National Film Registry". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 2017-02-28. Retrieved 2020-05-eighteen .
3. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 2016-ten-31. Retrieved 2020-05-18 .
4. ^ Reeling Dorsum Archived 2020-01-xxx at the Wayback Auto assessed 8-ii-2015
5. ^ "Differences between All the President's Men Volume vs Movie". thatwasnotinthebook.com. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2018-12-25 .
6. ^ Shapiro, Fred (2011-09-23). "Follow the Money". Freakonomics. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2018-12-25 .
7. ^ The Legacy of "All the President's Men" with Robert Redford, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (Apr 21, 2011) Archived 2019-08-12 at the Wayback Automobile LBJ Presidential Library on YouTube
8. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} Shales, Tom; Zito, Tom; Smyth, Jeannette (April 11, 1975). "When Worlds Collide: Lights! Photographic camera! Egos!". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2008-07-24. Retrieved 2008-11-12 .
9. ^ Goldman 1982, p. 235
10. ^ ^{a b} Goldman 1982, p. 240
11. ^ "Written By". magazine publication of. WGAw. Archived from the original on 2011-09-06. Retrieved 2011-xi-06 .
12. ^ Stayton, Richard. "Fade In – From the Vault, an archival reprint Feb/March 2018". Written By magazine (– original publish date, April/May 2011). Archived from the original on 2021-04-11. Retrieved 2021-04-11 .
13. ^ Himmelman, Jeff (2012). Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee, Legendary Editor of The Washington Post. Random Business firm Publishing Grouping. ISBN978-0-679-60364-1.
14. ^ "Ben Bradlee: Iconic Editor". Archived from the original on 2018-09-09. Retrieved 2018-09-12 .
15. ^ "First Week In Only 604 Theatres (advertisement)". Variety. April 21, 1976. p. viii.
16. ^ "fifty Top-Grossing Films". Variety. April 21, 1976. p. 11.
17. ^ Ebert, Roger (January one, 1976). "All the President's Men". RogerEbert.com. Archived from the original on Nov vi, 2018. Retrieved January fifteen, 2019.
18. ^ "All the President's Men". Multifariousness. December 31, 1975. Archived from the original on November 6, 2018. Retrieved Jan fifteen, 2019.
19. ^ Kehr, Dave (26 Oct 1985). "All the President'due south Men". Chicago Reader. Archived from the original on 2018-eleven-06. Retrieved 2019-01-15 .
20. ^ All the President'south Men at Rotten Tomatoes
21. ^ All the President's Men at Metacritic
22. ^ "Recount! Oscar Voters Today Would Make 'Brokeback Mountain' Best Flick Over 'Crash'". The Hollywood Reporter. 18 February 2015. Archived from the original on 2019-01-22. Retrieved 2020-01-03 .
23. ^ "Democracy 'n' Activity: 25 Powerful Political Thrillers". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 2009-09-04. Retrieved 2009-09-02 .
24. ^ "The 49th Academy Awards (1977) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 2015-01-11. Retrieved 2011-10-03 .
25. ^ "NY Times: All the President'south Men". Movies & Goggle box Dept. The New York Times. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-12-01. Retrieved 2008-12-thirty .
26. ^ "BAFTA Awards: Moving-picture show in 1977". BAFTA. 1977. Retrieved June 3, 2021.
27. ^ "29th DGA Awards". Directors Guild of America Awards . Retrieved July five, 2021.
28. ^ "All the President's Men – Golden Globes". HFPA . Retrieved July five, 2021.
29. ^ "KCFCC Award Winners – 1970-79". December fourteen, 2013. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
30. ^ "1976 Award Winners". National Board of Review . Retrieved July 5, 2021.
31. ^ "Past Awards". National Order of Motion picture Critics. 19 December 2009. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
32. ^ "1976 New York Film Critics Circle Awards". New York Motion picture Critics Circle . Retrieved July 5, 2021.
33. ^ "Film Hall of Fame Inductees: Productions". Online Film & Tv Clan . Retrieved August fifteen, 2021.
34. ^ "Awards Winners". wga.org. Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on 2012-12-05. Retrieved 2010-06-06 .
35. ^ "Watergate subject for Redford-owned Sundance Productions" ^{[ permanent dead link ]} , Chicago Tribune, iii April 2012
36. ^ Bauder, David (March 20, 2013). "'All the President'due south Men Revisited' Documentary To Air On Discovery". The Huffington Mail. AOL. Archived from the original on October 26, 2013. Retrieved October 17, 2013.
37. ^ The Primetime Emmys – All The President'south Men Revisted Archived 2014-05-29 at the Wayback Automobile The Emmys

References [edit]

• Goldman, William (1982). Adventures in the Screen Trade. Warner Books.

External links [edit]

• All The President's Men essay by Mike Canning at National Motion picture Registry [i]
• All the President's Men at IMDb
• All the President's Men at the TCM Movie Database
• All the President's Men at AllMovie
• All the President's Men at Box Office Mojo
• All the President's Men at Rotten Tomatoes
• Slovick, Matt (1996). "'All the President's Men'". The Washington Post.
• "Cinema: Watergate on Picture show". Time. March 29, 1976. Archived from the original on September 22, 2008.
• Lyman, Rick (Feb sixteen, 2001). "WATCHING MOVIES WITH/Steven Soderbergh; Follow the Muse: Inspiration To Rest Lofty and Light". The New York Times.
• Savlov, Marc (April 15, 2011). "From the Watergate Break-in to a Broken News Media". The Austin Chronicle.
• Ann Hornaday, "The 34 best political movies ever made" The Washington Post (Jan. 23, 2020), ranked #ii

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