The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

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Max Schreck as Graf Orlok in "Nosferatu" (1922)

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.

Rating: R

Release Date: Dec 29, 2004

Running Time: 95 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Sean Penn, Don Cheadle, Naomi Watts, Brad William Henke, Michael Wincott, Mykelti Williamson, Nick Searcy, Tracy Middendorf, Lily Knight, Jack Thompson

director: Niels Mueller

The Assassination of Richard Nixon Trailer

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

Based on the 1974 true story of would-be assassin Samuel Byck, a paranoid and alienated salesman who is tired of preying on customers. Rejected for a government loan and spurned by his family, he focuses his resentment on Nixon as the figurehead of the US capitalist system and obsessively plots his downfall.

PETER TRAVERS - January 6, 2005

True story: six months before Richard Nixon resigned, in 1974, screw-up husband, father and salesman Samuel Byck tried to take him out, in a prescient 9/11 scenario, by hijacking a jet and crashing it into the White House.

Byck failed but died trying. This prototypical little-guy loser felt betrayed by his family, his job and his country. He viewed Tricky Dick as the symbol of his torment. First-time director and co-writer Niels Mueller saw Byck (called Bicke to allow for fictional finagling) as…