All the President's Men (film)
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| Directed by | Alan J. Pakula |
| Produced by | Walter Coblenz |
| Screenplay by | William Goldman |
| Based on |
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein Bob Woodward |
| Starring |
Robert Redford Dustin Hoffman Jack Warden Martin Balsam Hal Holbrook Jason Robards Jane Alexander |
| Music by | David Shire |
| Cinematography | Gordon Willis |
| Edited by | Robert L. Wolfe |
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Wildwood Enterprises
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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138 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $8.5 million |
| Box office | $70.6 million |
All the President's Men is a 1976 American political thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula. The screenplay by William Goldman is based on the 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post. The film stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Woodward and Bernstein, respectively; it was produced by Walter Coblenz for Redford's Wildwood Enterprises.
All the President's Men is the third installment of what informally came to be known as Pakula's "paranoia trilogy". The other two films in the trilogy are Klute (1971) and The Parallax View (1974).
In 2010, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
On June 17, 1972, a security guard (Frank Wills, playing himself) at the Watergate complex finds a door kept unlocked with tape. He calls the police, who find and arrest five burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters within the complex. The next morning, The Washington Post assigns new reporter Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) to the local courthouse to cover the story, which is thought to be of minor importance.
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