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Tutti gli uomini del presidente (All the President's Men) è un film del 1976 diretto da Alan J. Pakula e interpretato da Dustin Hoffman e Robert Redford. Basato sull'omonimo saggio scritto dai giornalisti del Washington Post Bob Woodward e Carl Bernstein, il film ripercorre l'inchiesta relativa allo scandalo Watergate che nel 1972 portò alle dimissioni di Richard Nixon dalla carica di Presidente degli Stati Uniti.

Nel 2003 l'American Film Institute ha inserito i due protagonisti al 27º posto tra i migliori "eroi" della storia del cinema e nel 2007 il film è risultato 77º nella lista dei 100 migliori film statunitensi di sempre.[1][2] Nel 2010 è stato scelto per la conservazione nel National Film Registry della Biblioteca del Congresso degli Stati Uniti, in quanto giudicato "di rilevante significato estetico, culturale e storico".[3] Nel 2017 è entrato nella Film Hall of Fame della Online Film & Television Association.[4]

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Produzione

As reported in the 29 Mar 1976 Time, actor Robert Redford first became aware of the Watergate burglary while on a promotional tour for The Candidate (1972, see entry). He soon took notice of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, and contacted them after they had implicated H. R. Haldeman in the conspiracy without corroboration, at a time when the team’s credibility was in question. Said Redford, “People who take wild shots and miss interest me.” Redford was also motivated by his personal dislike of President Richard Nixon, whom the actor had met at age thirteen when then-Senator Nixon presented Redford with a tennis trophy. A news item in Feb 1980 Los Angeles magazine mentioned a recent story in the LAT which revealed that All the President’s Men was written at Redford’s suggestion, although his name does not appear among the book’s acknowledgments. However, the item noted that Redford's involvement was mentioned in the book, Portrait of “All the President’s Men” by Jack Hirshberg.(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

According to an item in the 7 Jul 1974 Parade, Redford purchased the rights to All the President’s Men with $450,000 supplied by Warner Bros. Pictures in exchange for the actor’s commitment to appear in two more films for the company. The 14 Jun 1975 Toronto Star, reported that actor Dustin Hoffman also intended to buy the rights to the book before realizing that Redford had already completed the deal.(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

The 11 Apr 1975 Washington Post ran a detailed feature story on the making of the film and its impact on the newspaper. The article stated that the film was originally budgeted at $5 million, with shooting scheduled to begin 12 May 1975. William Goldman’s first draft of the screenplay was rejected, and when Redford solicited suggestions from Woodward and Bernstein, the latter submitted a screenplay co-written with Nora Ephron, which was also rejected. In the Post article, a proposed scene is described wherein Woodward and Bernstein witness one of their stories rolling off the printing press, which the Post derided. It did not appear in the final edit.(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

Casting was still in progress at the time of the Post article, with several actors being considered to portray Ben Bradlee. Among them were Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas and Gregory Peck. Under consideration for the role of publisher Katherine Graham were Patricia Neal, Alexis Smith and Dorothy McGuire. However, no portrayal of Graham appeared in the film.(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

Redford and Hoffman spent several weeks in the company of Woodward and Bernstein, respectively, and also observed the workings of the Washington Post newsroom, according to the Washington Post. In the absence of Woodward and Bernstein, who were on leave to work on their second book, Redford and Hoffman continued their research with investigative reporters Seymour Hersh and Fred Barbash, respectively. Director Alan J. Pakula interviewed several Post editors and reporters as well.(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

The Post denied permission to film in the newsroom, requiring a set to be built at the Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank, CA.(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

At the time of the 11 Apr 1975 Washington Post article, producer Walter Coblenz only had permission to use the names of Woodward and Bernstein; there was some doubt that many other Post staff members would grant permission to use their names. However, District of Columbia Editor Barry Sussman, whose unofficial title had been “Watergate editor,” took issue with being omitted from the script; Goldman consolidated his character with that of Harry Rosenberg. Redford stated that the finished script would be available to all involved Post staffers, who could grant or deny permission for their real names to be used. Graham and Bradlee both expressed concerns about the accuracy with which the film would portray the Post and its staff, and Bernstein remarked that he would give the finished script “a good, hard look.” Woodward, however, did not express a similar interest.(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

Joyce Haber’s column in the 30 Apr 1975 LAT reported that Jason Robards had been cast as Ben Bradlee, in part because Lee Marvin was unavailable. Haber included Lauren Bacall (formerly married to Robards) as a possible candidate to be cast as Katherine Graham. According to the column, filming began in Washington, D.C., on 28 Apr 1975. However, a 22 May 1975 Washington Post story stated that the District of Columbia granted permission to film between 19 May and 14 Jun 1975. An interview with Robards in the 16 Apr 1976 LAT revealed that Robards had known Bradlee for many years and was somewhat uncomfortable with portraying him.(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

An article in the 29 Jun 1975 Chicago Sun-Times included among the film’s Washington, D.C., locations the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, the Sans Souci Restaurant, Woodward’s former apartment in the DuPont Circle district, and the Washington Post building, including the newsroom. This report conflicts with Washington Post article, which stated that no filming would be permitted in the newsroom. A news item in 26 May 1975 Box reported that Ron Nessen, press secretary for President Gerald Ford, gave Coblenz permission to film inside the White House, beginning early Jun 1975. The article also mentioned that the production would employ three hundred extras.(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

According to an article in the 3 Jul 1975 DV, the completed newsroom set occupied 33,000 square feet of space, encompassing Stages 4 and 11 of the Warner lot, at a cost of $450,000. In an interview in the Mar/Apr 1980 Theatre Crafts, George Jenkins described the process of recreating a newsroom: 167 desks were built, with one ton of scrap paper from "the Government Printing Office" used to dress them; the 22,000-square-foot Styrofoam ceiling was suspended from catwalks, and the columns were on casters, allowing them to be moved to accommodate shooting; and 200 miles of wire were employed in ballasting the fluorescent ceiling lights to reduce noise. Sets for Woodward’s apartment and Democratic headquarters were built in Burbank and shipped to Washington, D.C. Jenkins was able to acquire the original furniture for the latter from the Democratic National Committee. The White House entrance and guard house were reproduced at the Columbia Studios Ranch in Burbank, and included a fence and gate that had been used in Kisses for My President (1964, see entry). The courtroom scene was filmed in an actual Washington, D.C., courtroom. According to the 15 Jun 1975 Washington Star, the sets for Democratic headquarters, Woodward’s apartment and Larry O’Brien’s office were assembled in a Gaithersburg, MD, warehouse.(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

A feature article in the 14 Jun 1975 Toronto Star described an incident during filming at the Sans Souci Restaurant. A scene that involved Robards, Hoffman and Redford was interrupted when an overhead light fell onto the table at which they were seated; the fixture glanced off Redford’s head and right shoulder, but he was uninjured. Pakula was upset to the point of nausea and retired to his trailer for an hour. Bernstein commented, “Movies sure are dramatic. Nothing like that ever happened to us.” Coblenz rented the Sans Souci for $5,000 and flew the maitre d’ in from a European vacation for the day’s filming.(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

According to the 3 Jul 1975 DV, filming was scheduled to conclude sometime in Sep 1975. A 6 Oct 1975 Box news item announced that filming had been completed in ninety-six days of shooting, though it did not give the exact date of completion.(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

In 22 Oct 1975 DV, it was reported that the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), took issue with Warner Bros. for soliciting “blind bids” from exhibitors without making any part of All the President’s Men available for viewing. Redford did a presentation at the 1976 NATO convention in New Orleans with a five-minute clip from the film, but this was an exception. NATO held the view that a distributor could not solicit blind bids if any kind of presentation was made to some theater owners but not others. NATO planned to discuss the situation with Warner Bros.(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

After receiving an initial 'R' rating, All the President’s Men was re-rated 'PG' by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), despite the presence of objectionable language throughout the film. According to a 3 Mar 1976 Var article, MPAA’s Jack Valenti stated that the film would have received a “G” rating, had it not been for “the language factor.” A related article from DV on the same date suggested that the film's PG rating might make it harder for the MPAA "to defend tougher ratings for [future] films" based on "language content alone."(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

The film premiered 4 Apr 1976 at the Eisenhower Theatre of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, according to the 8 Mar 1976 Box. Woodward, Bernstein, Hoffman and Redford were set to attend. The premier committee included several famous journalists, such as Art Buchwald, Mary McGrory, Sarah McClendon, Jack Anderson, David Brinkley, and Eric Sevareid.(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

According to the 6 Oct 1976 HR, Warner Bros. booked All the President’s Men in six hundred theaters throughout the United States in the two weeks prior to the 2 Nov 1976 presidential election. A company official insisted that this was not intended to influence the election’s outcome.(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

An article in the 27 Jan 1977 DV reported that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) would allow All the President’s Men to compete for a Golden Globe award, even though Warner Bros. had mistakenly advertised the film as a “Golden Globe winner” in an advertisement in the 24 Jan 1977 DV.(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

Reviews were mostly positive, though some criticized the lack of character development for Woodward and Bernstein. Hoffman addressed this aspect in production notes from AMPAS, stating that development of the characters would have been a distraction from the storyline. One of the most negative reviews appeared in the 26 Apr 1976 New West, which argued that the film missed an opportunity to explain the implications of the Watergate scandal, and the pathology that drove the conspirators. However, the 29 Mar 1976 Time reported that Woodward and Bernstein were pleased with the film.(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

Frank Wills, the security guard who first alerted police to the Watergate burglary, portrayed himself in the film, as reported in the 15 May 1975 Var.(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

Deep Throat's identity, William Mark Felt, Sr., former FBI Deputy Director, was confirmed on 31 May 2005, and front-page articles in the LAT, NYT and The Washington Post reported the story 1 Jun 2005. Felt, Sr., died 18 Dec 2008, per various obituaries. He was the first name mentioned as the possible identity of Deep Throat in a 1976 press release from production files at the AMPAS library.(catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/53913)

Production Date: spring-fall 1975 in Washington D.C. and Burbank, CA.(afi.details)

Frank Wills, the security guard who discovered the break-in at the Watergate complex, played himself.(imdb.trivia)

On Tuesday, May 31, 2005, in advance of a revelatory July 2005 "Vanity Fair" article written by his attorney and spokesman, ninety-one-year-old Mark Felt acknowledged publicly for the first time that he was in fact the informant "Deep Throat," a fact corroborated by Bob Woodward and The Washington Post. At the time of the Watergate break-in, Mr. Felt was the Deputy Director, the second-in-command, of the F.B.I.(imdb.trivia)

One scene involving Robert Redford on the phone is done in a continuous six-minute single take with the camera tracking in slowly. Towards the end Redford makes a mistake, he calls the phone caller by the wrong name, but as he stays in character. It simply appears genuine, and this was the take used in the final cut.(imdb.trivia)

The two lead actors memorized each other's lines so that they could both interrupt each other in character. This unsettled a lot of the actors they were playing opposite, leading to a greater sense of verisimilitude.(imdb.trivia)

Hal Holbrook was the first and only choice to play the informant Deep Throat. During the casting process, Bob Woodward, while looking at various actors photo head shots and resumes, but not revealing Deep Throat's true identity, told and insisted to Director Alan J. Pakula that Holbrook was the best choice to play Deep Throat. (Holbrook, in fact, bears a strong resemblance to Mark Felt).(imdb.trivia)

Robert Redford felt that by casting him as Bob Woodward he was unnecessarily unbalancing the film. The obvious answer was to cast a star of equal weight. For that reason, he approached Dustin Hoffman at a Knicks game and offered him the role of Carl Bernstein.(imdb.trivia)

When Kenneth Dahlberg tells Bob Woodward on the phone, "I've just been through a terrible ordeal! My neighbor's wife has been kidnapped!", he is not lying. On July 27, 1972, a few days before Bob Woodward called Dahlberg, Virginia Piper, wife of a prominent Minnesota businessman and a close friend of the Dahlberg family, was kidnapped from her home in Minneapolis. She was released two days later in Duluth, after her husband paid a one million dollar ransom.(imdb.trivia)

To prepare for their roles, Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman hung out in The Washington Post newsroom for several weeks, observing reporters and attending staff meetings. Once, when Redford was standing in a hallway, a group of high school students came through on a tour of the newspaper offices. The students immediately started taking pictures of Redford with their pocket cameras. At that point, Bob Woodward walked by. Redford told the students, "Wait a minute! Here's the real Bob Woodward, the guy I'm playing in the movie! Don't you want to take a picture of him?" The students said no, and walked on. Hoffman also recalled that he had been asked by the paper's science reporter to fetch a new typewriter ribbon. Due to Hoffman's long hair and casual dress, the science reporter had mistaken him for a copy boy.(imdb.trivia)

The film was originally rated R for language, likely due to occasional usage of the F-word. It was subsequently re-rated PG, most likely due to the historical significance of the material.(imdb.trivia)

The furious volley of typewriter hammers striking paper in the opening scenes was created by layering the sounds of gunshots and whiplashes over the actual sounds of a typewriter, accentuating the film's theme of words as weapons. This is also why the closing scene has a teletypewriter printing headlines with the sound of cannon fire from a twenty-one-gun salute in the background.(imdb.trivia)

Screenwriter William Goldman had to tone down the dialogue from Editor Harry Rosenfeld (Jack Warden). Rosenfeld, in real-life, was so hilariously funny that Goldman didn't think that people would believe someone could be so spontaneously witty.(imdb.trivia)

Robert Redford was in contact with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein before their book had been written, and encouraged them to write more about how they conducted their investigation and less about the events they were reporting.(imdb.trivia)

The film introduced the catchphrase "follow the money", which was absent from the book, or any documentation of Watergate.(imdb.trivia)

British Director John Schlesinger declined an offer to direct as he felt the story of Watergate should be told by an American.(imdb.trivia)

Warner Brothers agreed to finance the film only on condition that Robert Redford, then the number one box-office star, starred as Bob Woodward.(imdb.trivia)

In real-life, Judy Hoback was the bookkeeper who gave Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward crucial information about the slush fund payouts at the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP). Jane Alexander met with Hoback to prepare for her role in the film. Also, the filmmakers rented out Hoback's former home in Georgetown, D.C., and shot the scenes with Alexander and Dustin Hoffman in the actual living room where Hoback had first met with Bernstein.(imdb.trivia)

Screenwriter William Goldman was called to an impromptu meeting with Redford (the film's producer) along with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. At that time, Goldman's draft of the screenplay had been accepted and they were waiting on hearing from Woodward and Bernstein. At the meeting, they presented Goldman with a new screenplay, written by Bernstein, and then girlfriend Nora Ephron. Goldman refused to read the screenplay (for legal reasons) and walked out of the meeting. Only one scene from that screenplay ends up in the final version of the film: a scene where Bernstein outsmarts a secretary to get in to see someone. This scene was pure fiction, it did not happen in real-life. (Woodward was allegedly unhappy with Bernstein's script as well, because it depicted Woodward as a naive novice reporter and worshipper of Bernstein's superior talent. Woodward later called Goldman to apologize for the incident, telling him, "I don't know what the six worst things I've ever done in my life are, but letting that happen, letting them write that, is one of them.").(imdb.trivia)

To ensure that both stars of the movie received top billing, Robert Redford's name was billed above Dustin Hoffman's on the posters and trailers, while Hoffman's name was billed above Redford's in the movie itself. This same strategy had been used for L'uomo che uccise Liberty Valance (1962), which paired John Wayne and James Stewart.(imdb.trivia)

Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford hung out in The Washington Post offices for months, sitting in on news conferences.(imdb.trivia)

During filming, Jason Robards, Jr. decided that it was important for Ben Bradlee to always be "in the newsroom", so his presence would always be felt in the film. On days when he wasn't shooting scenes with the other actors, Robards came to the set and hung out in Ben Bradlee's office, usually sitting at Bradlee's desk and reading a book, so Bradlee would appear in the background of shots that featured Woodward, Bernstein, and other reporters.(imdb.trivia)

Robert Redford bought the rights to the source book of the same name by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward in 1974, the year it was first published, for four hundred fifty thousand dollars. Adjusted for inflation, this amount would be equivalent to 2.15 million dollars in 2014.(imdb.trivia)

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein offered to write the screenplay for this. Unfortunately, screenwriting is so much of an an art unto itself about which neither of them knew much. They also put in a huge number of reporters' gags and in-jokes and a subplot about how each of them tried to score with women throughout the time they were investigating. The only remnant of this is in the early scene where Bernstein talks to Sharon Lyons (Penny Peyser) at the outdoor café.(imdb.trivia)

During television news coverage of the true identity of "Deep Throat"/Mark Felt that aired in 2005, Robert Redford stated that they tried to film in the actual The Washington Post newsroom, but it proved to be impossible because many Post employees were too aware of the camera, and some even tried to "act". Redford stated some employees would disappear into restrooms and apply make-up. The production team re-created the facility at a Burbank studio in Los Angeles for a reported four hundred fifty thousand dollars. The Post did, however, cooperate with the production's quest for authenticity by shipping several crates of actual newsroom refuse that included: unopened mail, government directories, Washington telephone directories, wire service copy, calendars, and even stickers from Benjamin C. Bradlee's secretary's desk.(imdb.trivia)

Although he wasn't keen on the idea of a film being made in his offices, Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee realized that by cooperating he would have a better chance of influencing the production.(imdb.trivia)

William Goldman said Bob Woodward was extremely helpful to him, but Carl Bernstein was not, and that his crucial decision as to structure was to throw away the second half of the book.(imdb.trivia)

The interior The Washington Post newsroom set was built on a stage at Warner Brothers Studio, in Burbank, California. Production Designer George Jenkins was a former New York Broadway scenic designer. Designing the newsroom based upon the actual newspaper's newsroom, George's plan layout utilizes false perspective in the rear set area to increase the depth and scale-size for camera. As the newsroom desks recede, the construction coordinator's prop makers cut each prop desk down in size to fill in, and match the reduced scale for each line of desks. Shelving was also reduced in size. When filming the set's front action area, the extra actors filling in the background set's scale, were selected related to their height fulfilling the perspective scale set dressing relationship. Viewing the film, the false perspective of the studio set accomplishes the size and scale of the actual The Washington Post newsroom.(imdb.trivia)

Unlike the book, the film itself only covers the first seven months of the Watergate scandal, from the time of the break-in to Nixon's second inauguration on January 20, 1973.(imdb.trivia)

Director of Photography Gordon Willis shot the scene where Bob Woodward talks on the phone to Kenneth H. Dahlberg in one unbroken 6-minute take. He used a diopter, like a bifocal lens turned on its side, with the separator line positioned vertically against the pillar behind Redford so as to better conceal its presence. During the take Redford had to be careful not to move or reach into the left side of the frame, and thus risk parts of himself being both in and out of focus simultaneously. The entire sequence ensured that Redford and the newsroom staff to the left in the background were in focus throughout. The shot shift is so subtle it's almost unnoticeable, unless one speeds up the sequence.(imdb.trivia)

The Washington Post boss Katharine Graham, who was initially very apprehensive about the film using the paper's name, loved the film, and later wrote a letter of praise and approval to star and co-Producer Robert Redford. As a condition of her sanctioning the production initially, Graham had begged Redford not to include her as a character in the film, but after viewing the finished product, Graham admitted that she wished she hadn't made that request of him.(imdb.trivia)

Chris Carter often quotes this movie as one of his bigger inspirations for X-Files (1993), wherein a prominent character used the Deep Throat codename. Perhaps not coincidentally, one of the names on Woodward and Bernstein's list of CREEP employees is "Scully".(imdb.trivia)

Frank Wills, the security guard who discovered the break-in, was fired from his job without adequate explanation only a few days later. He was then out of work for three years until he played himself (one day's work) in this film. He never had a full-time job thereafter, and died at the age of fifty-two in 2000.(imdb.trivia)

Jason Robards, Jr. was always Robert Redford's first choice to play Benjamin C. Bradlee. When Director Alan J. Pakula came on-board, he instantly agreed with Redford's decision.(imdb.trivia)

Fourth biggest hit movie at the box-office for 1976, out-grossing such other films as Che botte se incontri gli orsi (1976) and Il presagio (1976).(imdb.trivia)

Robert Redford is left-handed, and like almost all lefties, wears his watch on his right hand. Every close-up shows him doing things right-handed (writing, dialing phones, et cetera).(imdb.trivia)

Jane Alexander's Oscar nominated performance for Best Actress in a Supporting Role runs for just over eight minutes in total screentime.(imdb.trivia)

The film takes place from June 17, 1972 to January 20, 1973.(imdb.trivia)

Neither Director Alan J. Pakula nor Robert Redford were happy with Screenwriter William Goldman's first draft. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were not keen on it either. In fact, Bernstein penned a draft with his then-girlfriend Nora Ephron. Redford rejected this effort too, so he and Pakula held all-day sessions working on the script, interviewing editors and reporters throughout.(imdb.trivia)

Cinematographer Gordon Willis had a customized split diopter sliding mechanism mounted on his camera so as to be able to enable it to be moved in and out of a shot without any editing cuts.(imdb.trivia)

Robert Redford's first choice for the role of Carl Bernstein was Al Pacino.(imdb.trivia)

The movie ends with various news articles being typed up on-screen. The reports are shown out of order, running all the way into 1975, but end with the key report from August 1974 that "President Nixon resigns."(imdb.trivia)

According to "Adventures in the Screen Trade", Alan J. Pakula drove William Goldman crazy asking for re-writes for scenes with the constant rejoinder "Don't deny me any riches!" Goldman goes on to say that if he could have his career all over again, he wouldn't go near this film.(imdb.trivia)

Except for a few scenes, there is barely any score featured in the movie. Even in the closing credits, the music starts after the main actors, actresses, and guest star credits were over. While the score by David Shire starts at twenty-eight minutes into the movie, most of the music can be heard in the last half of the movie.(imdb.trivia)

Claims that Alan J. Pakula and Robert Redford re-wrote the screenplay have been debunked, however, after an investigation into the matter by Richard Stayton in Written By Magazine. Stayton compared several drafts of the script, including the final production draft, and concluded that Goldman was properly credited as the writer and that the final draft had "William Goldman's distinct signature on each page."(imdb.trivia)

The Executive Editor of The Washington Post hoped that the film would show newspapers "strive very hard for responsibility".(imdb.trivia)

Benjamin C. Bradlee, who was Managing Editor and then Executive Editor of The Washington Post, realized that the film was going to be made regardless of whether he approved of it or not, and felt that it made "more sense to try to influence it factually". Bradlee was portrayed by Jason Robards, Jr.(imdb.trivia)

An example of the attention to detail is evidenced during the segment when Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) is rifling through his pockets, seeking notes written on scraps of paper. He pulls out a matchbook with a "G" on the cover. This was the logo of the largest supermarket in the district at the time.(imdb.trivia)

Lauren Bacall and Patricia Neal were considered for the role of Katharine Graham.(imdb.trivia)

All the President's Men Revisited (2013), a feature length television documentary about the making of this movie, was broadcast thirty-seven years after this movie debuted.(imdb.trivia)

Director Alan J. Pakula spent hours interviewing editors, journalists, and reporters, taking notes of their comments.(imdb.trivia)

Debut theatrical movie of Stephen Collins (Hugh Sloan).(imdb.trivia)

When the film wrapped production, it was 3.5 million dollars over budget, and thirty-five days behind schedule.(imdb.trivia)

The Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham was in a scene in the Woodward and Bernstein book, and when that part was being cast, Geraldine Page was selected, but the scene was cut from the script.(imdb.trivia)

Robert Redford personally chose William Goldman as screenwriter.(imdb.trivia)

Geraldine Page refused the role of Katharine Graham.(imdb.trivia)

The quote that's pinned by Woodward's (Robert Redford's) desk is from a letter Winston Churchill wrote to Lord Rosebery in 1901: "My own idea is that it does not matter how many mistakes one makes in politics, so long as one keeps on making them. It is like throwing babies to the wolves: once you stop, the pack overtakes the sleigh. This explains why it is that the present administration prospers."(imdb.trivia)

The work area for the reporters at The Washington Post is dotted with Washington Redskin memorabilia. Carl Bernstein's work space is decorated with a popular period piece of a cyclist. A Baltimore Bullets button is pinned to a bulletin board next to his typewriter. This might be a stretch considering that the Bullets did not move to Largo, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. until October 1973, beyond the time frame of this film.(imdb.trivia)

When Woodward meets Deep Throat in the underground car park, the story Deep Throat tells him about the guy putting his hand over a flame and claiming the trick is not to mind, was the same one that Lawrence of Arabia did in Lawrence of Arabia (1962). It is also repeated in Prometheus (2012).(imdb.trivia)

The film was part of a cycle of 1970s conspiracy movies. These included: Executive Action (1973), Una squillo per l'ispettore Klute (1971), Chinatown (1974), Cutter's Way (1981), Telefon (1977), Rebus per un assassinio (1979), La conversazione (1974), Perché un assassinio (1974), I tre giorni del Condor (1975), Il principio del domino: la vita in gioco (1977), Commando Black Tigers (1978), Ultimi bagliori di un crepuscolo (1977), Hangar 18 (1980), Capricorn One (1977), and this movie.(imdb.trivia)

During one scene in the background, a newscaster can be heard talking about the 1972 World Chess Championship in Iceland, in which American Bobby Fischer was a participant. Fischer's story was retold in La grande partita (2014) with Tobey Maguire as Fischer.(imdb.trivia)

Robert Redford has appeared in five films written by screenwriter William Goldman: Butch Cassidy (1969), La pietra che scotta (1972), Il temerario (1975), this movie, and Quell'ultimo ponte (1977).(imdb.trivia)

James Karen worked on Gli intrighi del potere - Nixon (1995) and this movie, playing Bill Rogers in Gli intrighi del potere - Nixon (1995), and Hugh Sloan's lawyer in this movie. Karen is the only billed cast or crew member to have worked on both movies.(imdb.trivia)

Jason Robards, Jr. won an Oscar for playing Benjamin C. Bradlee in this movie, making him one of seventeen actors to win an Academy Award for playing a real person who was still alive at the evening of the Award ceremony (to date, 2015). The other sixteen actors and actresses and their respective performances are: Spencer Tracy for playing Father Edward Flanagan in La città dei ragazzi (1938), Gary Cooper for playing Alvin C. York in Il sergente York (1941), Patty Duke for playing Helen Keller in Anna dei miracoli (1962), Robert De Niro for playing Jake La Motta in Toro scatenato (1980), Sissy Spacek for playing Loretta Lynn in La ragazza di Nashville (1980), Jeremy Irons for playing Claus Von Bullow in Il mistero Von Bulow (1990) (1990), Susan Sarandon for playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking - Condannato a morte (1995), Geoffrey Rush for playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996), Julia Roberts for playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich - Forte come la verità (2000), Jim Broadbent for playing John Bayley in Iris - Un amore vero (2001), Helen Mirren for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen - La regina (2006), Sandra Bullock for playing Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009), Melissa Leo for playing Alice Eklund-Ward in The Fighter (2010), Christian Bale for playing Dickie Eklund in The Fighter (2010), Meryl Streep for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011), and Eddie Redmayne for playing Stephen Hawking in La teoria del tutto (2014).(imdb.trivia)

As of 2014, Robert Redford appeared in four movies that were nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award: Butch Cassidy (1969), La stangata (1973), this movie, and La mia Africa (1985). Of those, two have won, La stangata (1973) and La mia Africa (1985). Also, Redford directed two movies that were nominated for Best Picture, Quiz Show (1994) and Gente comune (1980), the latter of which won.(imdb.trivia)

Debut theatrical movie of Lindsay Crouse (Kay Eddy).(imdb.trivia)

Jason Robards, Jr. received all of his Academy Award nominations for playing real-life people: Benjamin C. Bradlee in this movie, Dashiell Hammett in Giulia (1977), and Howard Hughes in Una volta ho incontrato un miliardario (1980). Robards won for the first two movies, but not the third. Each of these three Oscar nominations was in the Best Actor in a Supporting Role category.(imdb.trivia)

Alan J. Pakula initially had little interest in making this movie, thinking that it would turn out like a political version of Butch Cassidy (1969).(imdb.trivia)

Il cast include anche F. Murray Abraham (Arresting Officer #1), Dominic Chianese (Eugenio R. Martinez), Richard Herd (James W. McCord, Jr.), Polly Holliday (Dardis' Secretary), Frank Latimore (Judge), Neva Patterson (CRP Woman), George Wyner (Attorney #2) e Frank Wills nel ruolo di se stesso.(imdb.cast)

Location:(imdb.filming)

  • Marina del Rey, California, USA (Donald Segretti's apartment)
  • Parking garage, ABC Entertainment Center - 2040 Avenue of the Stars, Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA (Deep Throat meeting site)
  • 2600 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
  • Los Angeles City Hall - 200 North Spring Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA (Miami FL County Justice Building)
  • Howard Johnson Motor Lodge - 2601 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, District of Columbia, USA (Base 1 lookout post)
  • J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building - 10th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
  • John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - 2700 F Street NW, Washington, District of Columbia, USA (Woodward catches cab for first Deep Throat meeting)
  • Lafayette Park - Pennsylvania Avenue & H Street NW, Washington, District of Columbia, USA (site of Bernstein's meeting with phone company contact)
  • Library of Congress - 101 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
  • McDonald's, Santa Monica, California, USA (fast food restaurant where Sloane confirms Haldeman's name)
  • Stage 11, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
  • Watergate Hotel - 2650 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, District of Columbia, USA (Watergate break-in)
  • Arlington, Virginia, USA
  • Stage 15, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
  • Stage 4, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
  • Stage 5, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
  • United States Capitol - 545 Seventh Street SE, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
  • Washington Post - 1150 15th Street NW, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Distribuzione

La première si è tenuta il 7 aprile 1976 a New York e due giorni dopo il film è stato proiettato anche a Los Angeles.[5]

Date di uscita

  • Stati Uniti (All the President's Men) – 7 aprile 1976
  • Regno Unito (All the President's Men) – 29 aprile 1976
  • Australia (All the President's Men) – 10 giugno 1976
  • Brasile (Todos os Homens do Presidente) – 9 luglio 1976
  • Paesi Bassi (All the President's Men) – 5 agosto 1976
  • Giappone (Daitōryō no Inbō) – 7 agosto 1976
  • Danimarca (Alle præsidentens mænd) – 26 agosto 1976
  • Irlanda (All the President's Men) – 27 agosto 1976
  • Francia (Les hommes du président) – 22 settembre 1976
  • Finlandia (Presidentin miehet) – 24 settembre 1976
  • Germania Ovest (Die Unbestechlichen) – 30 settembre 1976
  • Argentina (Todos los hombres del presidente) – 7 ottobre 1976
  • Spagna (Todos los hombres del presidente) – 21 ottobre 1976
  • Italia (Tutti gli uomini del presidente) – 21 ottobre 1976
  • Belgio – 4 novembre 1976
  • Norvegia (Alle presidentens menn) – 27 dicembre 1976
  • Messico (Todos los hombres del presidente) – 6 gennaio 1977
  • Grecia (Oloi oi anthropoi tou proedrou) – 14 marzo 1977
  • Svezia (Alla presidentens män) – 14 marzo 1977
  • Germania Est (Alle Männer des Präsidenten) – 3 febbraio 1978

Accoglienza

Incassi

Critica

Riconoscimenti

Miglior attore non protagonista a Jason Robards
Migliore sceneggiatura non originale a William Goldman
Migliore scenografia a George Jenkins e George Gaines
Miglior sonoro a Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander e Jim Webb
Candidatura per il miglior film a Walter Coblenz
Candidatura per il miglior regista a Alan J. Pakula
Candidatura per la miglior attrice non protagonista a Jane Alexander
Candidatura per il miglior montaggio a Robert L. Wolfe
Candidatura per il miglior film drammatico
Candidatura per il miglior regista a Alan J. Pakula
Candidatura per il miglior attore non protagonista a Jason Robards
Candidatura per la migliore sceneggiatura a William Goldman
Miglior film
Miglior regista a Alan J. Pakula
Miglior attore non protagonista a Jason Robards
Miglior film
Miglior regista a Alan J. Pakula
Miglior attore non protagonista a Jason Robards
Candidatura per il miglior regista cinematografico a Alan J. Pakula
Candidatura per il miglior film
Candidatura per il miglior regista a Alan J. Pakula
Candidatura per il miglior attore protagonista a Dustin Hoffman
Candidatura per il miglior attore non protagonista a Jason Robards
Candidatura per il miglior attore non protagonista a Martin Balsam
Candidatura per la migliore sceneggiatura a William Goldman
Candidatura per il miglior montaggio a Robert L. Wolfe
Candidatura per la migliore fotografia a Gordon Willis
Candidatura per la migliore scenografia a George Jenkins
Candidatura per il miglior sonoro a Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Jim Webb e Milton Burrow
Candidatura per il miglior montaggio a Robert L. Wolfe
Miglior adattamento per un film drammatico a William Goldman
Miglior film
Miglior attore non protagonista a Jason Robards
Candidatura per il miglior regista a Alan J. Pakula
  • 1976 – Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
Miglior attore non protagonista a Jason Robards

Colonna sonora

Quando il pianista e compositore David Shire assistette alla prima proiezione, chiese se il film avesse davvero bisogno di una colonna sonora, ma Alan J. Pakula suggerì che la musica avrebbe potuto ricordare al pubblico il "cuore umano" che batteva nei personaggi. Shire realizzò una partitura concisa e discreta che non trascurava la melodia o la musicalità, con un tema memorabile che sottolineava la determinazione dei due giornalisti nel districare il mistero.[6]

La colonna sonora è stata pubblicata per la prima volta in edizione limitata nel 2007 dalla rivista online Film Score Monthly. Il CD include anche le musiche composte da Michael Small per il film Una squillo per l'ispettore Klute del 1971 ed è uscito nella serie Silver Age Classics.[6]

Tracce

  • Da Una squillo per l'ispettore Klute
  1. Love Theme From Klute – 03:44
  2. Main Title – 02:03
  3. I Want to Speak to You – 03:04
  4. Phone Call Play Back – 00:42
  5. Walk to Casting Office – 00:32
  6. Casting Office – 03:11
  7. Goldfarb's Record – 04:16
  8. Cable After Goldfarb – 00:19
  9. On the Roof – 03:11
  10. Cable's First Office – 02:07
  11. Tea With Madame – 01:28
  12. First Disco – 02:55
  13. Skylight – 00:28
  14. Search for Arlyn Page – 01:19
  15. Drive From Arlyn's – 00:31
  16. Ligourin's Disco – 03:12
  17. Moonwall – 00:49
  18. Nightmare – 01:25
  19. Takes Care of Me – 01:15
  20. Dead Arlyn – 00:37
  21. Hand on Fence – 00:33
  22. Fruitmarket – 01:27
  23. Down Building – 01:09
  24. Helicopter – 00:22
  25. Bree Followed on Street – 02:15
  26. Cable in Loft – 01:30
  27. Down the Alley – 01:17
  28. Final Flight – 00:47
  29. End Title – 01:10
  • Da Tutti gli uomini del presidente
  1. Library of Congress – 00:57
  2. To Deep Throat I – 01:56
  3. Unifax (Version 1) – 00:50
  4. Unifax (Version 2) – 00:44
  5. The Dahlberg Check – 00:45
  6. The CREEP List (Version 1) – 00:42
  7. The CREEP List (Version 2) – 00:54
  8. CREEP Sequence I – 02:13
  9. CREEP Sequence II (Version 1) – 01:12
  10. CREEP Sequence II (Version 2) – 01:02
  11. CREEP Sequence III (Version 1) – 00:49
  12. CREEP Sequence III (Version 2) – 01:08
  13. The Neat Little Houses – 00:28
  14. Limo Into White House – 00:40
  15. To Segretti – 00:34
  16. Paranoia Walk (Version 1) – 01:15
  17. Paranoia Walk (Version 2) – 01:30
  18. "John" Haldeman Phone Call – 00:59
  19. To Deep Throat II (Version 1) – 02:03
  20. To Deep Throat II (Version 2) – 01:16
  21. Vivaldi Concerto for Two Trumpets in C Major: Allegro – 02:55
  22. Bradlee Lawn to Newsroom – 00:34
  23. Exit Nixon – 00:48
  24. Finale and End Title – 02:48

Note

  1. ^ AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains, su afi.com, www.afi.com. URL consultato il 25 ottobre 2018.
  2. ^ AFI'S 100 Years...100 Movies - 10th Anniversary Edition, su afi.com, www.afi.com. URL consultato il 25 ottobre 2018.
  3. ^ Complete National Film Registry Listing, su loc.gov, www.loc.gov. URL consultato il 25 ottobre 2018.
  4. ^ Tutti gli uomini del presidente - Awards, su imdb.com, www.imdb.com. URL consultato il 25 ottobre 2018.
  5. ^ All the President's Men (1976), su catalog.afi.com, www.catalog.afi.com. URL consultato il 13 ottobre 2018.
  6. ^ a b Klute/All the President's Men (1971/1976), su filmscoremonthly.com, www.filmscoremonthly.com. URL consultato il 13 ottobre 2018.

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