The Final Days (1989 film)

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The Final Days
DVD Cover
GenreDrama
Written byBook:
  Bob Woodward
  Carl Bernstein
Teleplay:
  Hugh Whitemore
Directed byRichard Pearce
StarringLane Smith
Richard Kiley
Music byCliff Eidelman
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producerStuart Samuels
ProducerRichard L. O'Connor
CinematographyFred Murphy
EditorBill Yahraus
Running time150 minutes
Production companyMulticom Entertainment Group (MEG)
Original release
NetworkABC
ReleaseOctober 29, 1989 (1989-10-29)

The Final Days is a 1989 television movie adaptation of the 1976 book written by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. The movie is directed by Richard Pearce and follows the events in the Nixon White House after the Washington Post's Watergate revelations.

Plot[edit]

J. Fred Buzhardt inadvertently reveals the existence of a taping system to the Watergate Committee minority counsel. After the committee's majority counsel discovers the information, Alexander Butterfield is interviewed and confirms the taping system's existence.

Four days after the Yom Kippur War, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns. Nixon turns over the tapes after the resignations of Elliot Richardson and William Ruckelshaus.

Later at his Key Biscayne home, Nixon holds his "I'm not a crook" press conference. James D. St. Clair is hired as Nixon's defense lawyer.

As the walls close in on Nixon, he becomes increasingly erratic. Despite his family's pleas to fight on, he accepts the advice of his advisors and resigns the presidency.

Featured cast[edit]

Actor Role
Newell Alexander Oliver F. Atkins
Graham Beckel Ron Ziegler
Diana Bellamy Rose Mary Woods
Ramon Bieri John Sirica
Theodore Bikel Henry Kissinger
Susan Brown Pat Nixon
James Edgcomb Alexander Butterfield
Ed Flanders Leonard Garment
Milo Kevin Floeter David Eisenhower
Alan Fudge Gerald Ford
Gregg Henry John Dean
Ann Hearn Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Richard Kiley J. Fred Buzhardt
Elizabeth Norment Jill Wine-Banks
James Sikking Elliot Richardson
Gary Sinise Richard Ben-Veniste
Lane Smith Richard Nixon
David Ogden Stiers Alexander Haig
Wayne Tippit Edward Gurney
Richard Venture James D. St. Clair
Boris Sichkin Leonid Brezhnev
George D. Wallace Archibald Cox
Amanda Wyss Tricia Nixon Cox

Awards and nominations[edit]

1990 Casting Society of America (Artios)[edit]

1990 Emmy Awards[edit]

1990 Golden Globe Awards[edit]

See also[edit]

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