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    Secret Honor [Criterion Collection]

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    Director: Robert Altman Cast: George Burt

    George Burt
    , Philip Baker Hall
    Philip Baker Hall


    DVD

    (Full Frame)

    $39.99
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    Customer Reviews

    • Release Date: 10/19/2004
    • UPC: 0037429197929
    • Original Release: 1984
    • Source: CRITERION
    • Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
    • Language: English
    • Runtime: 5400
    • Sales rank: 16,858

    Special Features

    New high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound; Audio commentaries with director Robert Altman and co-writer Donald Freed; New 22-minute video interview with actor Philip Baker Hall; 81 minutes of archival-film excerpts from the political career of President Richard M. Nixon; English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired; Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition; Plus: an essay by film critic Michael Wilmington

    Cast & Crew

    Performance Credits
    Philip Baker Hall Actor

    Technical Credits
    Robert Altman Producer
    Scott Bushnell Executive Producer

    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Opening Credits
    2. Testing 1, 2, 3, Uh, 4
    3. The Matter of the Pardon
    4. The Kennedy Brothers
    5. Goddamn TB
    6. I See the Face of a Child
    7. My Wife Does Not Wear a Mink Coat
    8. Something Happened to My Client
    9. The Committee of 100
    10. The Blueprint of My Life
    11. I Could've Beaten Kennedy
    12. I Am the American Dream
    13. I Used to Love Being President
    14. Watch Out for the Liberals
    15. The American Nightmare
    16. Your Good Dog, Richard
    17. What Are You Looking At, Kissinger?
    18. The Hiss Case
    19. The Reds, the Reds, the Reds
    20. Only Nixon Could Dump Nixon
    21. The China Plan
    22. I Can Feel Mother's Eyes
    23. The CREEP Conspiracy
    24. He Chose Secret Honor
    25. John Dean Did Me a Favor
    26. I Sold My Soul at Bohemian Grove
    27. Guilty of One Thing Only
    28. Fuck 'Em! Fuck 'Em! Fuck 'Em!

    "After resigning in disgrace, Richard Nixon (Philip Baker Hall) sits at a desk in his study late at night, dictating his memoirs. Taking one drink, then another, he rants about Eisenhower, Castro, Khruschchev, Kissinger, the Kennedys, and any number of ot

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    Tellingly subtitled A Political Myth, Robert Altman's film version of Philip Baker Hall's one-man show Secret Honor (1984) intriguingly imagines a disgraced Richard Nixon as he spends an evening raging against his dying political light. Smoothly framing Hall's actions through the two media that were the bane of Nixon's career (unflattering TV and even more unflattering tape recordings), Secret Honor mixes fact and fiction in a rambling yet compelling monologue suggesting Nixon was the victim of nefarious corporate greed as well as the paranoid, over-ambitious architect of his own downfall. Hall is no dead ringer for Tricky Dick, but he adroitly captures the distinctive hunch and infamous profanity. Alternately blustering, sobbing, and sputtering in frustration, Hall manages to evoke a whiff of sympathy for the man while pulling no punches about Nixon's crimes. Filmed at the University of Michigan for a class Altman was conducting, Secret Honor may have been one of Altman's cluster of 1980s theatrical adaptations, but its sharp interrogation of the Nixon mystique also makes it an apt companion to his 1970s dissections of American political and media mythology.
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