Deep Throat movie out

Mark Felt, the FBI agent who was revealed in 2005 to be the Washington Post’s “Deep Throat” source, is now the topic of a movie—Mark Felt. Felt is portrayed by Liam Neeson.

Felt has a Nevada past. In the 1950s, as an agent in the Salt Lake City FBI office, he sometimes worked in eastern Nevada. On Nov. 17, 1956, he arrested Frank Bacca, a 19-year-old, alleged peacetime draft evader, in the small Nevada mining camp of McGill.

Felt once addressed a convention of the Eastern Nevada Peace Officers Assoc. at Fireman’s Hall in Ely.

Subtitled “The Man Who Brought Down the White House,” the film gives a sympathetic view of Felt. The director has said he used the movie to make the case that Felt, and not Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, was responsible for ending Richard Nixon’s presidency.

After he relocated from the West—and after the Watergate affair—Felt was convicted of authorizing illegal break-ins of antiwar offices. He was pardoned by President Reagan in 1981.

The Reno Cinemark theaters plan no showings. In Sparks, Galaxy theater assistant manager Steven McNeals said, “Unfortunately, we are not currently showing the film Mark Felt. … I’m very sorry, as it does look like a great film.”