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All the President's Men
Director: Alan J. Pakula (Dir)
Release Date:   Apr 1976
Premiere Information:   New York opening: 7 Apr 1976
Duration (in mins):   135-138
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Cast:   Dustin Hoffman (Carl Bernstein)  
    Robert Redford (Bob Woodward)  
    Jack Warden (Harry Rosenfeld)  
  Special appearance by Martin Balsam (Howard Simons)  
    Hal Holbrook (Deep Throat)  
  And Jason Robards (Ben Bradlee)  

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Production Company: Wildwood Enterprises, Inc.  
Distribution Company: Warner Bros., Inc. (Warner Communications, Inc.)
Director: Alan J. Pakula (Dir)
Producer: Walter Coblenz (Prod)
Writer: William Goldman (Scr)
Photography: Gordon Willis (Dir of photog)
Art Direction: George Jenkins (Prod des)
Film Editor: Robert L. Wolfe (Film ed)
Music: David Shire (Mus)
MPAA Rating: PG
Country: United States
Language: English

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Source Text: Based on the book All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward (New York, 1974).
Authors: Carl Bernstein
  Bob Woodward

Copyright Claimant Copyright Date Copyright Number
Warner Bros, Inc. & Wildwood Enterprises, Inc. 7/4/1076 dd/mm/yyyy LP46111

PCA NO: 24416
Physical Properties: Sd:
  col: Technicolor
  Widescreen/ratio: Panavision

 
Genre: Drama
  Drama
Sub-Genre: Newspaper
  Political

Note: All the President's Men was ranked 77th on AFI's 2007 100 Years…100 Movies--10th Anniversary Edition list of the greatest American films. 

Bibliographic Sources:   Date   Page
American Cinematographer   Jun 1976   pp. 774-75.
Filmfacts   1976   pp. 49-54.
Hollywood Reporter   25 Mar 1976   p. 17.
Motion Picture Herald Product Digest   7 Apr 1976   p. 86.
The New Republic   24 Apr 1976   pp. 16-17.
New York Times   8 Apr 1976   p. 42.
New York Times   11 Apr 1976   Section II, p. 1.
New York Times   12 Apr 1976   p. 36.
New York Times   23 May 1976   Section II, p. 17.
New York Times   21 Nov 1976   Section II, p. 13.
New York Times   1 Jun 2005   p. 1.
New Yorker   12 Apr 1976   p. 114.
Newsweek   5 Apr 1976   p. 85.
Rolling Stone   8 Apr 1976   pp. 52-58.
Saturday Review   1 May 1976   p. 41.
Time   29 Mar 1976   pp. 54-58.
Variety   31 Mar 1976   p. 15.
The Village Voice   12 Apr 1976   pp. 10-11, 131.
The Washington Post   1 Jun 2005   p. 1.

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