2022/07/06

Men Of Crisis, The Harvey Wallinger Story - 1972 - USA

Men Of Crisis, The Harvey Wallinger Story - 1972 - 6/10

 
I ought to award this eight more points for sheer chutzpah.
In this, one of the most obscure of Allen films, he distills his dislike of Nixon into a barbed satire.
Predating Zelig by two decades, he constructs a faux documentary, that, I suspect, many would believe.
Nixon had been reelected by a substantial margin in 1972, which might be why PBS refused to air this.