The parking garage meetings were real. The flower pot signals? Also real. Hollywood wishes it wrote this.
It was a plot device worthy of any film noir thriller. A shadowy figure, keeper of the secrets to a national crime, reveals snippets of information to the man struggling to crack the case. Meetings in shadowy parking garages... cryptic signals using flower pots on balconies... it was John Le Carre or Alfred Hitchcock at their best... And it was all true. Featuring interviews with Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, Walter Cronkite, Oliver Stone, Watergate prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste and many others, this documentary examines the methods, motivations and far-reaching legacy of the man known as Deep Throat, now revealed to be W. Mark Felt, Deputy Director of the FBI during the Watergate era.
Direction
Gary Leva packs a feature's worth of tension into 16 minutes.
Acting
Hal Holbrook narrating his own shadow self? Delicious meta-layer.
Director
Gary Leva
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hal Holbrook played 'Deep Throat' in the 1976 film All the President's Men—making this documentary his full-circle moment voicing the actual W. Mark Felt.
The 'Deep Throat' codename wasn't revealed until 2005; this doc dropped in 2006, making it essentially instant-historical-analysis.
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