How can I have an all-time favorite movie without a couple of memorable clips?

All The President’s Men is such a great flick on a number of levels. It really captures the early ’70s and the paranoia of the Nixon presidency in an authentic way. It’s wild to see a newsroom without computers, cell phones, iPads and all the technological trappings of this day and age. Watching Robert Redford dialing his rotary phone over and over and tapping away on a typewriter is an amazing thing, indeed. What’s really weird about the Washington Post newsroom scenes is that their office is laid out exactly the same way, and with a lot of the same colors, as when I worked my first programming job at Liberty Mutual Insurance back in the late ’70s. What memories it brings back – it all makes me feel so damned old!

Anyways, back to the action…this is a great scene:

Mr. Markham: “I’m not here.”

Woodward: “OK…”

Mr. Markham: “Though clearly I am here.”

You want to talk paranoia? You want to talk about neo-existentialism? This scene has it all. I still remember guy playing the lawyer “Mr. Markham” being a regular on the soap opera my grandfather used to watch every day – might have been “General Hospital” or its sister show at the time. Anyways, for some weird reason I still remember he played the character Peter Delaney on that show.

Of course, the highlights of ATPM were the parking scenes where Redford’s Bob Woodward meets with his deep background informer “Deep Throat”. You want paranoia? You got it.

The cinematography of this film is incredible – with so much of it filnm