Review of All the President's Men (1976) by Tonygreen — 29 Jan 2021

It could have come from the pen of John Grisham, except that it really happened. The story is told straight, and it really does work as an entertaining piece of cinema. The plot never meanders from the cat and mouse game between The Washington Post's Woodward and Bernstein, and a secretive and well financed dirty tricks campaign working within Nixon's re-election committee. There is a lot of great detail about journalistic ethics and practice, and the tension between protecting anonymous sources, and getting it "on the record".

Also a short standout scene featuring Robert Walden as Donald Segretti, as one of the campaign's gonzo operatives.