Secret Honor (Full Frame)

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Sequestered in his home, a disgraced President Richard Millhouse Nixon arms himself with a bottle of scotch and a gun to record memoirs that no one will hear. Surrounded by the silent portraits of past presidents, Nixon resurrects his past in a passionate attempt to reconcile his failed political career. 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. Criterion's special edition also features two audio commentaries by Altman and Freed, a new video interview with Philip Baker Hall, and excerpts from archival films documenting key events in Nixon's political career.

Essay by film critic Michael Wilmington and more!Audio Commentary, Documentary, Interviews, Dual Layer.