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Director
  
Woody Allen

Music director
  
Laurie Johnson

Writer
  
Woody Allen

Language
  
English

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Genre
  
Short, Comedy

Screenplay
  
Woody Allen

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story movie poster

Cast
  
Woody Allen
,
David Ackroyd
,
Conrad Bain
(President Richard M. Nixon),
Richard M. Nixon
(President Richard M. Nixon),
Diane Keaton
(Renata Wallinger),
Reed Hadley
(Narrator)

Release date
  
1971 (1971)

Similar movies
  
Related Woody Allen movies

Men of crisis the harvey wallinger story 1971


Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story is a short film directed by Woody Allen in 1971. The film was a satirization of the Richard Nixon administration made in mockumentary style.

Allen plays Harvey Wallinger, a thinly disguised version of Henry Kissinger. The short was produced as a television special for PBS and was scheduled to air in February 1972, but it was pulled from the schedule shortly before the airdate. Reportedly, PBS officials feared losing its government support and decided not to air it. Allen, who previously had sworn off doing television work, cited this as an example of why he should "stick to movies". The special never aired and can now be viewed in The Paley Center for Media.

Two of Allen's regular leading ladies, Louise Lasser and Diane Keaton, make appearances, as does the Richard Nixon-lookalike Richard M. Dixon. The fictional characters are interspersed with newsreel footage of Hubert Humphrey, Spiro Agnew, and Nixon in embarrassing public moments. Allen would later explore this style again in Zelig.

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