Advise and Consent

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Plot: Otto Preminger expanded his vision in the 1960s with a whole series of ambitious, expansive dramas with huge casts and big themes. Advise and Consent, an examination of deal making, party polit...( read more  )ics, and congressional diplomacy in Washington's legislative halls (based on the novel by Allen Drury), is one of his best. Preminger broke the blacklist with his previous film, Exodus, and it rings through in this drama about a controversial nominee for secretary of state (a confident, stately Henry Fonda) accused of being a Communist. The nomination process becomes the center ring of the political circus, with fidgety accuser Burgess Meredith in the spotlight; devious, silver-tongued Charles Laughton cracking the whip as a southern senator with a grudge against Fonda; and party whip Walter Pidgeon lining up votes behind the scenes. Arm twisting and diplomatic hardball turns to perjury and blackmail, and a melodramatic twist gives this lesson in party politics a salacious soap opera dimension. Preminger's style has been hailed as "objective," but it's really a matter of attentiveness: he gives all the character their due and their say, eschewing heroes and villains for an exploration of people clashing over opposing goals. In fact, the weakest elements of the film are the unscrupulous populist senator played by George Grizzard and the badly dated caricatures that populate a notorious underground club. The video preserves the handsome widescreen black-and-white photography, keeping Preminger's careful and measured editing intact. --Sean Axmaker

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  MCT:

  February 17, 2008

  Excellent political drama with top flight cast, obviously some dated attitudes but that aside a very interesting film. And Betty White even pops up as the senator from Kansas!!

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  MCT:

  June 28, 2007

  Preminger wanted to take on both Washington and Hollywood -- the first for its politics and the latter for its outdated code. We are the winners with this dark and all too real film... and what a cast! Significant also for the 1st depiction of an unequivocally gay bar in a film (albeit an odd and sinister one)

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  MCT:

  April 28, 2007

  Maybe the greatest movie on the inner workings of DC ever made. Charles Laughton just grooves through this movie.

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  Burgess Meredith
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  Charles Laughton
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  Don Murray
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  Eddie Hodges
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  Franchot Tone
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  Gene Tierney
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  George Grizzard
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  Henry Fonda
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  Lew Ayres
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  Paul Ford
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  Peter Lawford
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  Walter Pidgeon

• Rated: (Unrated)
• Directed by: Otto Preminger
• Genres: Mystery & Suspense, Drama, Classics
• Released: June 6, 1962
• DVD Released: May 10, 2005

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