All the President's Men (1976)

Regisseur:

Alan J. Pakula

Drehbuchautoren:

Carl Bernstein (book) &
Bob Woodward (book) ...

Premierendatum:

9. April 1976 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Historienfilm | Thriller

Werbezeile:

At times it looked like it might cost them their jobs, their reputations, and maybe even their lives.

Plot:

Reporters Woodward and Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon's resignation.

Plot Keywords:

Sergeant | Paranoia | Man With No Name | Reporter | Watergate

Filmpreise:

Won 4 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 20 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

A Thrilling Movie About How Fun It Is to Be a Journalist

Besetzung

Dustin Hoffman	...	Carl Bernstein
Robert Redford	...	Bob Woodward
Jack Warden	...	Harry M. Rosenfeld
Martin Balsam	...	Howard Simons
Hal Holbrook	...	Deep Throat
Jason Robards	...	Ben Bradlee
Jane Alexander	...	Judy Hoback
Meredith Baxter	...	Debbie Sloan
Ned Beatty	...	Martin Dardis
Stephen Collins	...	Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
Penny Fuller	...	Sally Aiken
John McMartin	...	Scott, Foreign Editor
Robert Walden	...	Donald H. Segretti
Frank Wills	...	Himself - Watergate Security Guard
F. Murray Abraham	...	Sgt. Paul Leeper, Arresting Officer #1

Alternativ:

Unbestechlichen, Die (Österreich) (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

138 Min | Spain:125 Min (TV version)

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Spanisch | Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Technicolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono

Altersfreigabe:

South Korea:12 | West Germany:12 | USA:R (original rating) | Brazil:10 | Sweden:Btl | USA:PG (re-rating after appeal) (certificate #27119) | Netherlands:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Finland:S | Iceland:L | Norway:12 (1976) | Singapore:PG | UK:15 | UK:AA (original rating)

Drehorte:

2600 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Firma:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Dies und das:

This was the first film Jimmy Carter watched during his presidential tenure.

Pannen:

Geographische Fehler: At one point, Woodward is shown driving east in front of the White House, but then ending up immediately afterwards at the Kennedy Center, which is west of the White House.

Dialogzitate:

Deep Throat: It leads everywhere. Get out your notebook. There's more.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in "Gilmore Girls: You Jump, I Jump, Jack (#5.7)" (2004)

Soundtrack:

Concerto in C for two trumpets

A Thrilling Movie About How Fun It Is to Be a Journalist

"All the President's Men" was one of two big releases in 1976 that examined the power of the American media ("Network" being the other). "Network" took a cerebral, arty approach to its subject and created a blistering satire. "All the President's Men" is a much more straightforward thriller, along the lines of this year's "Zodiac." It's perhaps less ambitious than "Network," but having seen Sidney Lumet's film recently I think "President's Men" has aged better.

Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman play Woodward and Bernstein, the two reporters for the Washington Post who investigated and uncovered the secrets surrounding Watergate. This movie makes the job of a journalist look intolerably exciting, and indeed I've read reports that applications to journalism schools actually spiked after this movie hit theatres. There's not anything really stylistically distinguished about the movie, but it's smashingly entertaining, and director Alan J. Pakula proved once again how good he was at putting urban paranoia on screen (as he had done with "Klute" five years earlier).

An Oscar went to Jason Robards, playing Ben Bradlee, editor of the Post, as a craggy sage, and a nomination went out to Jane Alexander, in a small but effective role as a reluctant informant. Hal Holbrook received the dubious honor (thank you Linda Lovelace) of playing Deep Throat.

Grade: A