The Most Important Film of the Seventies

All The President's Men was a 1976 movie that depicted
the true story about the 1972 Watergate scandel. It
was a courageous attempt to present how Washington
Post reporters Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) and
Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) uncovered the 1972
Watergate scandal that forced President Richard Nixon
to resign.

William Goldman's Oscar-winning screenplay, based on
Woodward and Bernstein's book, details everything
from the actual break-in at National Democratic
headquarters to Woodward's clandestine meetings with
White House source "Deep Throat," [[who was later
confirmed to be W. Mark Felt, who was associate
director of the F.B.I.]] to the editorial meeting
that nearly killed the story, to the final break on
the eve of Nixon's oath of office. Alan J. Pakula
admirably creates a suspenseful detective thriller
out of the predetermined story line, and it was the
brilliant re-creation of the 1972 Post newsroom that
is most catching and holding about the film. A
well-deserved Oscar went to art director George
Jenkins and set decorator George Gaines

The story unfolds On June 17th, 1972,as Watergate
hotel security guard Frank Wills spotted a possible
break-in at the Democratic Party's National Committee.
Some apparent CIA agents were arrested
for breaking and entering, and later held over for trial
where Woodward first found out that they were more
than mere burglars. They worked for the government.

Throu the resignations of H. R. Haldeman and John
Ehrlichman, [top officles in the White House]and the
revelation of the Nixon tapes by Alexander Butterfield
in 1973. It relates the events behind the major stories
the two wrote for the Post, naming some sources who
had previously refused to be identified for their initial
articles, notably Hugh Sloan. The out of the way
meeting with deep troat just added to the suspense
of this film. [Deepthroat's idenity was keep secret
for over thirty years until he decided it was time
for him to idenify himself]

This true-life story is an amazingly honest and
forthright as it is entertaining and engaging.The
movie is a mystery but not in the traditional sense.
Almost all of us watching the film already know how
the story is going to turn out, but it is also the
way it makes its dynamic revelations seem surprising
and exciting all at the same time.

All The Presidents Men was not only one of the best
movies of the seventies but I also believe that it
was the most important film of that decade.

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