All The President's Men
- PG
- Year:
- 1976
- 138 min
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FADE IN ON:
A TINY BLACK PIECE OF TAPE.
We see it in the center of the large, dimly lit screen. As
the tape is pressed around a door--
BEGIN THE BREAK-IN SEQUENCE.
It's a major piece of action, running maybe five minutes and
it's all as detailed and accurate as we can make it, with as
many "if only's" included as possible. ("If only" the tape
had been attached up and down instead of around the door,
Wills wouldn't have spotted it and alerted the police; "if
only" the first police car called had gone to investigate,
Baldwin, watching from the Howard Johnson Motor Inn, would
have seen their uniforms and radioed Hunt and Liddy in time
for them to have gotten to the five burglars and then safely
away.)
The break-in ends when Leeper arrests the five men. He thought
he only had one guy, so when ten hands were raised he was
surprised. The hands are all encased in Playtex rubber
surgical gloves. HOLD on the hands a moment; then--
GO TO:
A DARK APARTMENT.
The phone rings. WOODWARD fumbles for the receiver, turns on
the bed light. He listens a moment.
WOODWARD:
No, no trouble, Harry, be right down.
(he hangs up)
Son of a b*tch.
He lies back. The apartment is one room, a small terrace
beyond. Not much of a place.
WOODWARD lies still, staring at the ceiling. He blinks, blinks
again. HOLD...
CUT TO:
THE ENORMOUS FIFTH FLOOR OF THE WASHINGTON POST.
It looks, early of a Saturday morning, pretty deserted. Those
reporters that are around are young, bright, and presently
involved in nothing more taxing than drinking coffee and
thumbing through the papers.
HARRY ROSENFELD surveys the scene from his office doorway as
WOODWARD approaches, hangs his coat at his desk, not far
from where ROSENFELD is standing.
ROSENFELD:
Where's that cheery face we've come
to know and love?
WOODWARD:
You call me in on my day off because
some idiots have broken into local
Democratic Headquarters--tell me,
Harry, why should I be smiling?
ROSENFELD:
As usual, that keen mind of yours
has pegged the situation perfectly.
(chomps on some Maalox
tablets)
Except (a) it wasn't local Democratic
Headquarters, it was National
Democratic Headquarters--
(WOODWARD is surprised--
he hadn't known)
--and (b) these weren't just any
idiots, these were special idiots,
seeing as when they were arrested at
2:
30 this morning, they were allwearing business suits and Playtex
gloves and were carrying--
(consults a piece of
paper)
--a walkie-talkie, forty rolls of
film, cameras, lock picks, pen-sized
tear gas guns, plus various bugging
devices.
(puts paper down)
Not to mention over two thousand
dollars, mostly in sequenced hundred
dollar bills.
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