All the President's Men

All the President's Men1976

Director: Alan J. Pakula
Stars: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Runtime: 157 minutes

It helps to have one of history's greatest scoops as your factual inspiration, but journalism thrillers just don't get any better than All the President's Men. Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford are perfectly matched as (respectively) Washington Post… more »



Woodward:
This man Gordon Liddy--he's going to be tried along with Hunt and the five burglars--we know he knows a lot, we just don't know what.

Deep Throat:
You changed cabs? You're sure no one followed you?

Woodward:
I did everything you said, but it all seemed--

Deep Throat:
Melodramatic? Things are past that--remember, these are men with switchblade mentalities who run the world as if it were Dodge City.

Woodward:
What's the whole thing about--do you know?

Deep Throat:
What I know, you'll have to find out on your own.

Woodward:
Liddy--you think there's a chance he'll talk?

Deep Throat:
Talk? Once, at a gathering, he put his hand over a candle. And he kept it there. He kept it right in the flame until his flesh seared. A woman who was watching asked, "What's the trick?" And he replied. "The trick is not minding." Compare dialogue from the film Lawrence of Arabia (1962):

Potter:
[trying to copy Lawrence's snuffing a match with his fingers] Oooh! It damn well hurts.

Lawrence:
Certainly it hurts.

Potter:
Well, what's the trick, then?

Lawrence:
The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.

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