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7.3/10   223 votes
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Director:
Robert Drew
Writer:
Robert Drew (writer)
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Genre:
Documentary more
Plot:
Cinema verite feature that follows presidential hopefuls John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey during the 1960 Wisconsin primary full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win more
NewsDesk:
(5 articles)
Looking Back at "Dont Look Back"
 (From IFC. 12 May 2009, 6:47 AM, PDT)
Convention Work-in-progress screening, True/False 2009
 (From Spout. 4 March 2009, 10:05 AM, PST)
User Comments:
A whole other world more (2 total)

Cast

 
Robert Drew ... Himself
Hubert H. Humphrey ... Himself
Jacqueline Kennedy ... Herself

John F. Kennedy ... Himself

Directed by
Robert Drew 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Robert Drew  writer

Produced by
Robert Drew .... producer
 
Cinematography by
Richard Leacock 
Albert Maysles 
 
Sound Department
Robert Drew .... sound recordist
D.A. Pennebaker .... sound recordist
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Richard Leacock .... photographer
Albert Maysles .... photographer
Terrence McCartney Filgate .... photographer
D.A. Pennebaker .... photographer
 
Editorial Department
Robert Drew .... managing editor
 
Other crew
Richard Leacock .... sequence editor
Terrence McCartney Filgate .... sequence editor
D.A. Pennebaker .... sequence editor
 

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Additional Details

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Runtime:
60 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Drew Associates more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1990. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: At the end of his campaign speech to the audience of farmers in Sparta, Senator Hubert Humphrey announces he will make a special broadcast over the La Crosse television station that night. The only television station in La Crosse at the time was WKBT, the CBS affiliate on Channel 8. However, in the shots of the broadcast being produced, the cameras are clearly marked "WEAU-TV," which indicates the program was over the NBC affiliate on Channel 13 in Eau Claire, about 70 miles north of La Crosse. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Der letzte Dokumentarfilm (2000) more

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7 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
A whole other world, 19 July 2003
Author: rufasff

I would jump at the chance to see this one of kind look at American

Politics at the crossroads. Before the media age had turned political

campaigns into impersonal commercials, even the stars (in this case,

Kennedy and Humphrey) had to go out and press the flesh, hard.

While Kennedy is slicker and seems to have the more organized

machine behind him, he is still a saint of apprachability compared to

today's most folksie candidate. That's just how it was done before T.V.

had compleatly eaten us alive.

Some of the stuff with the affable, tireless Humphrey is

particuairly memorable. Speaking to a bunch of stone faced Wisconson

Farmers, his giddy style takes on a real comic poniency, he's like a

comic trying to loosen up Ed Gein.

Yet, you get from both candidates, yes, corny as it may sound,

they actually give a curse about the people they are talking to. If you

think that has all but vanished, as I do, you may find this film as

striking as I do. Some of the camera crew went on to "Don't Look Back"

and "Gimmie Shelter". 8 out of 10.

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