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All the President's
Men (1976)
In Alan Pakula's Best Picture-nominated political
film:
- the opening police call ("Car 727. Car 727.
Open door at the Watergate office building. Possible burglary")
- the statement by Deep Throat - delivered in the shadows: "Just
follow the money"
- the night scene at editor Ben Bradlee's (Oscar-winning
Jason Robards, Jr.) house when Washington Post reporters Bob
Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) divulged
the news from Deep Throat (Hal Holbrook) that "everyone is involved"
- Bradlee's final words of advice to his reporters: "Nothing's
riding on this except the, uh, First Amendment, freedom of the press,
and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of that matters,
but if you guys f--k up again, I'm going to get mad. Goodnight" -
and his go-ahead for his reporters to print their story
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- the opening and then compelling final scene in which
they typed (a closeup of typewriter keys banging on paper) in their
news office while in the foreground - a TV broadcast Nixon's 1972
second inauguration, 21-gun salute and oath of office - and then
another teletype report of August 9, 1974 - "NIXON RESIGNS..."
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Deep Throat
Ben Bradlee's Advice to Reporters
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