Blind Ambition (1979)

HE WANTED OFFICE, THEY WANTED MORE...

The Watergate crisis as viewed by John Dean and his wife Maureen, based on their personal accounts -- his best-seller, her book on how it affected their marriage -- and distilled into an eight-hour drama with all of the political figures of the day parading by as Dean relates his story to his attorney when his world, based on blind ambition, begins crashing down on him.

Blind Ambition

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Theresa Russell

Theresa Russell

as Maureeen Dean

as Charles Colson

as L. Patrick Gray

William Daniels

William Daniels

as G. Gordon Liddy

as Fred Fielding

as Charles Shaffer

as Donald Segretti

Christopher Guest

Christopher Guest

as Jeb Stuart Magruder

as John Ehrlichman

as Henry Petersen

Gerald S. O'Loughlin

Gerald S. O'Loughlin

as John J. 'Jack' Caufield

Alan Oppenheimer

Alan Oppenheimer

as George Simonson

Lawrence Pressman

Lawrence Pressman

as H.R. Haldeman

as John Mitchell

Peter Mark Richman

Peter Mark Richman

as Robert Mardian

William Schallert

William Schallert

as Herbert Kalmbach

as Ronald Ziegler

as Richard M. Nixon

as Richard Kleindienst

Patrick Collins

Patrick Collins

as Gordon Strachan

as Carol Thompson

as J. Edgar Hoover

as E. Howard Hunt

as May-Chapin's Secretary

as Dwight Chapin

Darrell Zwerling

Darrell Zwerling

as Frederick LaRue

Cathleen Cordell

Cathleen Cordell

Terence McGovern

Terence McGovern

as Jack Garfield

as Liz Garfield

as Judge John Sirica

Rosemary DeCamp

Rosemary DeCamp

as Maureen Dean's Mother

as Gen. Walters

as Bruce Kehrli

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