Emile de Antonio is a dissenter from the direct cinema mainstream of the sixties whose patent manipulation of images through editing and commentary openly and gleefully imposes a political message. Millhouse is about another kind of salesman in crisis. Relying on newsreel and TV footage along with interviews with various political commentators, de Antonio creates a devastatingly satirical documentary about the career and philosophy of Richard Milhous Nixon. As Tom Luddy has observed, "Emile de Antonio refuses to hide behind a false cinema verité neutrality: he knows that any editing of image and sound reflects a point of view, and behind that, an ideology. Admitting this he is able to arrange this material in a way that is not even chronological in 'documenting' Nixon's career, but that is persuasive for the points he wishes to make, and that is also howlingly funny." Marilyn Fabe