Sunday, February 22, 2015

February 22 - The Assassination of Richard Nixon

Today’s movie is a biographical drama with a scene that happens on February 22. Watch it tonight and enjoy.

THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON   

Samuel Bicke’s life is falling apart. His wife has left him and he has stopped working for his brother. He’s a hypocrite, demanding honesty of others, yet often telling lies himself. He lies about his marital staus to get his new job as a salesman. His boss thinks President Nixon is the greatest salesman ever due his political duplicity about the Vietnam War. Bicke decides to set up a mobile tire sale business with a government loan. His wife files for divoce, and after his boss learns Bicke lied on his job application, Bicke quits.  He breaks into his brother’s tire sale business and arranges for a large tire order to be sent to his friend Bonny, to be paid for with the loan proceeds. However, the loan doesn’t come through and Bonny is arrested for receiving stolen goods.Bicke’s bother bails out Bonny, but severs all ties with Bicke. Bicke steals a gun from Bonny,but can’t kill his old boss. Bicke does kill his dog. On February 22, 1974 [2:01 to 3:04 and 1:19:11 to 1:30:05] Bicke tries to hijack an airliner to crash into the White House. He kills a pilot, but as the police close in he commits suicide. Nixion was not at the White House that day in any event.

Washington Post (Saturday, February 23, 1974) at pages 1 and 10 and the film at 2:50 give the date

Director - Niels Mueller

Producer - Alfonso Cuarón and Jorge Vergara

Screenplay - Niels Mueller and Kevin Kennedy

Released – December 29, 2004

Runtime – 1 hour 35 minutes

Starring –

Sean Penn as Samuel Bicke
Don Cheadle as Bonny Simmons
Jack Thompson as Jack Jones
Naomi Watts as Marie Bicke
Brad William Henke as Martin Jones
Michael Wincott as Julius Bicke
Mykelti Williamson as Harold Mann

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015





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