All the President's Men

When he phones the Library of Congress, there is a close-up of Woodward dialing "1414".

The phone number of the Library of Congress in 1972 was 426-5000.

Presumably this shot was meant to show him phoning the White House at 456-1414.

At one point, Woodward is shown driving east in front of the White House, but then ending up immediately afterwards at the Kennedy Center, which is west of the White House.

At bottom left, when Bradlee calls out "Woodstein!" Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) goes outside the offices of The Washington Post to make a more private phone call from a phone booth.

Just as he's entering the booth, you can see the face of one of the crew members reflected off the metal strip of the booth frame.

While reviewing the contents of Dardas's file in the District Attorney's office.

When Woodward and Bernstein are in Woodward's apartment, and Bernstein throws Woodward a cookie, Woodward puts it down, and the position of the cookie on the desk changes repeatedly between shots.

When Bernstein and Woodward meet in Sloan's house the cushions on the sofa alter position between shots.

When Bob Woodward first appears in court to cover the appearance of the men caught at Watergate, the voice of actor 'George Wyner' (qv) was dubbed over the voice of the first lawyer Woodward is actually talking to in the scene.

The overhead shots of Woodward's car driving out of the parking ramp on two occasions, weeks apart show the same people coming and going on the sidewalk and all the same cars parked the same way in the garage.

As Bernstein is waiting to see Dardis, a man enters and is told by the secretary to go in and that he's expecting him.

But moments later after Bernstein tricks the secretary and barges into Dardis' office, the man is gone but was never seen leaving.

When Woodward and Bernstein go to see the bookkeeper the level in the pitcher of tea changes from front to back camera shots.

Also the newspaper in the front of the pitcher appears and disappears between camera shots.

In the first note to Woodward from Deep Throat, he says to meet at 2 AM in the garage.

Woodward takes a cab and gets out in front of the Kennedy Center to switch taxis.

At that time, there is a crowd of people leaving the Kennedy Center, as if leaving a performance.

No performance at the Kennedy Center would have gone that late.

As Woodward is ending a call from a phone booth, a car in the street behind it clearly slows down and two people look out presumably to watch the scene being filmed.

When Woodward and Bernstein visit Judy Hoback to press for confirmation of her information, there is an iced tea pitcher on the table where she sits.

The liquid level in the pitcher noticeably fluctuates from shot to shot.

In a 2007 web discussion on Watergate, reporter Bob Woodward gave the following answer when asked for the biggest factual error in this movie"The movie is an incredibly accurate portrait of what happened.

To limit the number of characters, the city editor, Barry Sussman, was merged into another character.

That is regretable, and something Carl Bernstein and I should have fought, because Sussman played a critical role in guiding and directing our reporting.

" When Bernstein is interviewing Judy Hobeck she says that in a 2 day period, 6 million dollars came in.

When Woodward and Bernstein were going over the notes of the interview, Bernstein says that in a 6 day period, 6 million dollars came in.

When Woodward and Bernstein are discussing how to go about getting the bookkeeper to tell all, at Bernstein's apartment, Bernstein grabs a cookie from a jar and throws it to Woodward.

Bernstein's own cookie is in his right hand but then turns into a cigarette, then a cookie again, then nothing, then a cookie, then a cigarette.

When Carl Bernstein interviews Segretti in his apartment, the two go out onto Segretti's balcony.

When Bernstein sits down his arms are on the armrests of the chair.

Then suddenly he has his right hand tucked into his pants and in his left hand he is holding a lit cigarette.

After Bernstein and Woodward talk to Dean about why he revoked his statement, you can see people walking into the hallway, startling when they see the camera and then walk past the wall as if they could keep out of the shot.

When Bernstein is handed a photo, the woman who hands him the folder looks toward the camera as she walks off, as if to make sure she's no longer in the shot.

Woodward is typing up a story late in the film and the close-up of the typewriter paper shows the word "criticise".

When the wire teletype is printing his story minutes later, it reads "criticize".

The difference being English vs.

American spellings.

Perhaps Redford's typewriter close-up was a second unit shot with a British stand-in? The name of the lawyer encountered by Woodward at the arraignment of the Watergate burglars (played by Nicholas Coster) gives his name as "Markham".

In reality, the lawyer identified himself to Woodward as Douglas Caddy.

In the movie the reporter (played by Peggy Fuller) who tells Bernstein that former Post employee and subsequent White House functionary Ken Clawson claimed he wrote the infamous "Canuck Letter" is called Sally Aiken.

The real-life reporter's name was Marilyn Berger.

During Bernstein's conversation with Sharon Lyons, her hair changes repeatedlyat one point it will be windblown and hanging in front of her shoulders, in the next shot freshly brushed and pushed back.

Also, in the two-shots during this scene, her water glass is half full and her hands are hidden under the table; the camera then cuts directly to a waist-up shot in which her hands are clearly visible and her glass has only an inch of water in it.

When Woodward is working during the TV announcement of Nixon's appointment as Republican candidate, there is a jump cut.

This coincides with a cut in the TV coverage.

After calling the White House asking for Howard Hunt, Redford/Woodward calls the Mullen Company where he was told by Charles Colson's secretary he also worked.

The insert of him dialing the phone shows him dialing the phone has the number ending in 1414 which is the number he previously called to get the White House.

This movie is based on the Watergate incident and follows two reporters, Woodwood (Robert Redford) and Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman, who is very young here) as they try to find the big story behind this incident. This movie is more of a historical narrative than a thematic movie.

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This movie is okay. A lot of people said Spotlight came close to being as good as this, personally I found Spotlight a lot more high-stakes and exciting.

The main thing to know about this film, going in, is that it's not going to tell the entire story of the Woodward and Bernstein articles. That being said, it does do an amazing job of keeping the viewer's attention, despite being about little more than the scramble to get sources to go on record.

Based on the 1974 book of the same name by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, this is an absolutely brilliant political thriller. I think that the film is a largely historically accurate depiction of the two "Washington Post" journalists' investigation into the Watergate scandal and the surrounding conspiracy.

This ramains one of the most thrilling movies ever. The pace is slow and the journalism is detailed and exhausting in a good way.

I was recommended from a classmate that I should watch it since I've never seen it nor heard of it before. A few days ago, i got to finally watch it.

All the President's men is definitely a good film on it's own. It's not the conventional thriller , keep that in mind.