Follow the money

[pic from Amazon]
This came out on dvd yesterday. One of my all time favorites--and never was selected in my college film teacher's "Sound in Film" film theory class. What a shame because about a 1/3 of the story are unseen characters talking on the phone. Just voices, and with each nervous stutter and pause, the story gets more complicated.
Watching the dvd, I really noticed the influence it had on the X-files. Not just with the Deep Throat character but also in the cinematography. Lots of wide, empty and heavily shadowed scenery, where you can't be sure if the car on the other side of the parking garage is really abandoned. The paranoia seeps in slowly and it's not overly dramatic.The magnitude of the investigation is handled with intelligence & realism in every scene. In its good years, X-files did that too.
Looking at Holbrook's portrayal of Deep Throat again-he was one pissed off g-man.
Jason Robards is terrific too.

Clawson: [on phone]...If you're going to refer to that alleged conversation with Sally Aiken, you can't print that it took place in her apartment. I have a wife,a family and a dog and a cat.
Ben Bradlee: A wife, a family and a dog and a cat. Right, Ken. Yeah. Uh, Ken, I don't want to print that you were in Sally's apartment...
Clawson: Thank God.
Ben Bradlee: I just want to know what you said... in Sally's apartment.