United States
1984
90 minutes
Color
1.33:1
English
257
Sequestered in his home, a disgraced President Richard Milhous Nixon arms himself with a bottle of scotch and a gun to record memoirs that no one will hear. He is surrounded by the silent portraits of Lincoln, Eisenhower, Kissinger, and his mother, as he resurrects his past in a passionate attempt to defend himself and his political legacy. Based on the original play by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, and starring Philip Baker Hall in a tour de force solo performance, Robert Altman’s Secret Honor is a searing interrogation of the Nixon mystique and an audacious depiction of unchecked paranoia.
| President Richard M. Nixon | Philip Baker Hall |
| Director | Robert Altman |
| Screenplay | Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone |
| Executive producer | Scott Bushnell |
| Associate director | Robert Harders |
| Cinematography | Pierre Mignot |
| Editing | Juliet Weber |
| Camera operator | Jean Lepine |
| Art direction | Stephen Altman |
| Music | George Burt |
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Nixon as Hamlet, Nixon as Lear, Nixon as Blanche DuBois, Nixon as Krapp—clutching every last tape to his breast with the wild fury and despair of a man on the precipice . . . Nixon in his study, poring over his past, gazing at his own multiplied monochrome image in a bank of TV monitors . . .
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