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Rating: 7 stars

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Advise & Consent (1962)

Directed by Otto Preminger

Drama

Overview

Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.

Length 139 minutes

Actors

Henry Fonda | Charles Laughton | Don Murray | Walter Pidgeon | Peter Lawford | Gene Tierney | Franchot Tone | Lew Ayres | Burgess Meredith | Eddie Hodges | Paul Ford | George Grizzard | Inga Swenson | Frank Sinatra | Edward Andrews | Paul McGrath | Will Geer | Betty White | Tom Helmore | Rene Paul | Paul Stevens | Russ Brown | Malcolm Atterbury | Janet Jane Carty | Hilary Eaves | Michele Montau | J. Edward McKinley | Bill Quinn | Tiki Santos | Raoul De Leon | Chet Stratton | Larry Tucker | Betty Murray | John Granger | Sid Gould | Meyer Davis | Irv Kupcinet | Robert C. Wilson | Alan Emory | Jesse Stearns Buscher | Milton Berliner | Allan W. Cromley | William Knighton | Guy M. Gillette | Henry Fountain Ashurst | Raj Mallick | Leon Alton | Walter Bacon | Joe Baird | Eddie Baker | Brandon Beach | Mario Cimino | Roger Clark | Paul Cristo | Harry Denny | George DeNormand | George Ford | Cay Forester | Bobby Gilbert | Polly Guggenheim | Clive Halliday | Helen Hardin | Henry Jackson | Virgil Johansen | Kenner G. Kemp | Joseph La Cava | Evelyn Lincoln | Al McGranary | William Meader | Harold Miller | Sol Murgi | Norman Papson | Charles Perry | Paul Power | Walter Reed | Leoda Richards | Clark Ross | John Roy | Carlisle Runge | Dick Ryan | Jeffrey Sayre | Louis Scheyven | Bernard Sell | Stephen Soldi | Marion Lloyd Stearns White | Hal Taggart | Wayne Tucker | Harty Wadsworth | Jerry Wadsworth | Byron White

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Political dramas really aren’t my thing. I don’t have many sub-genres that don’t do it for me but this is one. I gravitated towards this film because of Preminger and the cast. For its time this is a loaded cast akin to 12 ANGRY MEN (which it shares Henry Fonda in a main role). Another title for this could be CONGRESS: DECEITFUL WHITE MEN.

Crazy how white this movie is. Serious. There’s like one token black actor early on but that’s it for color. That Preminger shot this in black and white makes this even more apparent. Oh, there’s the islander senator from Hawaii. Gene Tierney has a small role that I wish had played a bigger part but I love her lines.

Well made movie with plenty of good turns by a stable of old Hollywood men. Didn’t hook me but definitely one for those who enjoy politics. That it’s 2.5hrs doesn’t help but I’m sure there are many that love this movie.

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