All The President's Men (2 Disc Special Edition) [1976]

See Larger Image	List Price: £15.99 Our Price: £4.98 Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Starring: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook Directed By: Alan J. Pakula Average Customer Rating:
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 7321900734011 Format: Box set Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2006-02-13 Running Time: 133 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1976
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: THE NIXON DOCTRINE(TRUE STORY) Comment: All The President's Men (2 Disc Special Edition) [1976]Another one of my Dad's favorite movies. He was in college during the Watergate Scandal and followed it thoroughly. I saw the movie from his collection. The EXCELLENT FILM is based on the story of two reporters for the Washington Post, Carl Bernstein(Dustin Hoffman) and Robert Woodward(Robert Redford), who stumbled across a potential lead for a story that snow-balled, to their continued horror, to the incrimination of and forced resignation of President, Richard Nixon. Fed by the mysterious "Deep Throat", Bernstein and Woodward put their own pieces together, sold two and a half million copies of the Post and won a Pulitzer Prize. The script by William Goldman and based on Bernstein's and Woodward's book, is COMPLETELY CREDIBLE as it deals with incredible events. The direction, by Alan J.Pakula is SHARP and UNRELENTING. The Acting really is a treat. Customer Rating: Summary: 2 little guys beat the monster that is the US Presidency Comment: I watched this without blinking...an amazing movie...most of us wouldnt have had the guts to investigate something like this. We just assume that people in power must be moral and right. This film motivated me to read about Richard Nixon's presidency (and his advisors like Kissinger) - these men should never have been allowed to such powerful positions because frankly (read Robert Dallek's book) they were psychotic. Sad and scary. Thanks for bringing this alive in this movie. Excellent. Customer Rating: Summary: An absolute classic Comment: The film itself is well-known, and is the true story of the second burglary and bugging attempt on the national HQ of the US Democratic Party, which took place in June 1972, and was organised by President Richard 'Tricky Dicky' Nixon's top aides, and almost certainly the President himself, The film also touches on numerous other crimes carried out by Nixon's team. The story is told from the point of view of the two journalists who uncovered the truth, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who were both junior Washington Post reporters, and significant parts of the dialogue in the film are taken verbatim from their book of the same name. It really only covers the first 6 months after the burglary, up to Nixon's d second inauguration, which is the period when the facts were being discovered and reported. It took another 20 months for Nixon to finally be forced to acknowledge the truth, and resign - this period is shown only as a series of headlines coming over a teleprinter. The film features one non-actor in a brief but starring role: Frank Wills, the Watergate security guard who discovered the break-in plays himself. The second DVD is far more recent, and much of it was made following the disclosure that one of Woodward's main sources of information was Mark Felt, nicknamed 'Deep Throat' in the movie, then No. 2 at the FBI, one of the institutions corrupted by Nixon, along with the CIA and the Justice Dept. It contains: Telling The Truth About Lies - 27 minutes 2006 documentary about the making of the film with Redford, Hoffman, Woodward, Bernstein, Bradlee, etc Lighting The Fire - 18 minutes 2006 documentary about the significance of the journalism with Linda Ellerbee, Walter Cronkite, Greg Krikorian (LA Times), Jonathan Alter, senior editor of Newsweek, who believes that if Watergate happened now, due to political pressures to reveal their sources the reporters would probably have gone to jail, and the corruption of Nixon would not have been exposed. Ms. Ellerbee makes a claim I find hopelessly optimistic: 'we proved the system worked'. I have to say that I disagree strongly: it was sheer luck that Nixon was proved to be a crook. Firstly, if the Watergate buggers had been even half-competent, no link to the White House would have been discovered. Secondly, had Bob Woodward not happened to be a friend of Mark Felt, they wouldn't have been able to have developed the story, and finally, had Nixon not have had the sheer arrogance to have taped his corrupt conversations for 'posterity', the truth could still have been obscured by spin and lies. Out Of The Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat - 16 minutes 2006 documentary following the revelation that 'Deep Throat' was in fact Mark Felt, the former No. 2 at the FBI. This documentary is marked by a right-wing author who claims that Mark Felt had numerous options available to him apart from revealing the truth about Watergate to Bob Woodward. Thankfully this nonsense is shot down by many other contributors, notably Carl Bernstein, who says 'As we saw, when other institutions fail, the press is the last resort'. Bernstein, Woodward, the Washington Post, and the world got lucky. Pressure and The Press - 10 minutes 1970's documentary about the events and reporting. Dinah! 1976 TV interview with Jason Robards. I guess I'd give the second DVD here 3 1/2 stars, if that were possible. I wouldn't rush out and buy this version if you already have the single disc, however. Customer Rating: Summary: Fantastic Film!!! Comment: Fantastic film, intresting it takes a few watches to get to grips with firstly what actual went on during the watergate scandal and secondly the script you really have to pay attention.But really interestng stuff and if your intrested in conspiracy films then its a must buy!!! Customer Rating: Summary: Completely dire and very very boring Comment: There doesn't appear to be a film in this film. If you're looking for a thriller, it's not here. If you're looking for a drama, it's not here. Acting, well, if you call asking questions acting, fine. A lot of it is executed in a way of saying that working for the Washington post is very boring and all these people do all day long is just phone people up and chase stories, go home and phone more people up. They get informants and then get more stories and fall asleep and get more information and then phone more people and maybe visit somebody. In the end, you don't care at all. In America this was a big deal because it was the president and it was all discovered by accident and some reporters thought there was a connection but nothing was executed that well. They try to make Redford and Hoffman look extremely macho and arrogant and I bet that worked in the 70s because they were hunky blokes who didn't give a damn and got the work done. For instance, if they are even threatened they don't look threatened, they don't look shocked, they just carry on as usual like they are reporting a cat up a tree. Why was the cat there. What ladder did they use. What colour is the cat. Very boring. Avoid for your own good otherwise you will tell people it is good and the circle continues. Break the circle, for the good of mankind. More Reviews