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Advise & Consent

  • 1962
  • Not Rated
  • 2h 19m
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Advise & Consent (1962)
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The polarizing search for a new Secretary of State has far-reaching consequences.The polarizing search for a new Secretary of State has far-reaching consequences.The polarizing search for a new Secretary of State has far-reaching consequences.

  • Director
    • Otto Preminger
  • Writers
    • Allen Drury
    • Wendell Mayes
  • Stars
    • Franchot Tone
    • Lew Ayres
    • Henry Fonda
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    • Director
      • Otto Preminger
    • Writers
      • Allen Drury
      • Wendell Mayes
    • Stars
      • Franchot Tone
      • Lew Ayres
      • Henry Fonda
    • 78User reviews
    • 47Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 1 win & 3 nominations total

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    Gene Tierney, Charles Laughton, Will Geer, Tom Helmore, Peter Lawford, and Walter Pidgeon in Advise & Consent (1962)
    Paul Ford, George Grizzard, and Walter Pidgeon in Advise & Consent (1962)
    Henry Fonda, Burgess Meredith, and Paul Stevens in Advise & Consent (1962)
    Don Murray and Inga Swenson in Advise & Consent (1962)
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    Otto Preminger, Don Murray, Charles Laughton, Walter Pidgeon "Advise And Consent" Columbia 1962 / **I.V.
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    Advise & Consent (1962)
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    Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Inga Swenson, and Franchot Tone in Advise & Consent (1962)
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    Franchot Tone
    Franchot Tone
    • The President
    Lew Ayres
    Lew Ayres
    • The Vice President
    Henry Fonda
    Henry Fonda
    • Robert Leffingwell
    Walter Pidgeon
    Walter Pidgeon
    • Senate Majority Leader
    Charles Laughton
    Charles Laughton
    • Sen. Seabright Cooley
    Don Murray
    Don Murray
    • Sen. Brigham Anderson
    Peter Lawford
    Peter Lawford
    • Sen. Lafe Smith
    Gene Tierney
    Gene Tierney
    • Dolly Harrison
    Burgess Meredith
    Burgess Meredith
    • Herbert Gelman
    Eddie Hodges
    Eddie Hodges
    • Johnny Leffingwell
    Paul Ford
    Paul Ford
    • Sen. Stanley Danta
    George Grizzard
    George Grizzard
    • Sen. Fred Van Ackerman
    Inga Swenson
    Inga Swenson
    • Ellen Anderson
    Paul McGrath
    Paul McGrath
    • Hardiman Fletcher
    Will Geer
    Will Geer
    • Senate Minority Leader
    Edward Andrews
    Edward Andrews
    • Sen. Orrin Knox
    Betty White
    Betty White
    • Sen. Bessie Adams
    Malcolm Atterbury
    Malcolm Atterbury
    • Sen. Tom August
    • Director
      • Otto Preminger
    • Writers
      • Allen Drury
      • Wendell Mayes
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    • Trivia
      Director Otto Preminger offered the role of a Southern senator to Martin Luther King Jr., believing that the casting could have a positive impact (despite the fact that there were no black senators at the time). King declined after serious consideration, as he felt playing the role could cause hostility and hurt the civil rights movement.
    • Goofs
      When the roll call vote is being conducted on the motion to advise and consent to Leffingwell's nomination, Senator Van Ackerman's name is not called. Even though he had left the Senate Chamber, the clerk would still have called his name.
    • Quotes

      Johnny Leffingwell: The phone - Senator Munson.

      Robert Leffingwell: Tell him I've gone out.

      Johnny Leffingwell: Why?

      Robert Leffingwell: Because, Johnny, he'll want to do some things that might obligate me.

      Johnny Leffingwell: I mean why do you want me to lie? If you're in, you're in; if you're out, you're out.

      Robert Leffingwell: Son, this is a Washington, D.C. kind of lie. It's when the other person knows you're lying, and also knows you *know* he knows. You follow?

    • Alternate versions
      Also available in a computer colorized version.
    • Connections
      Featured in Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies (1982)
    • Soundtracks
      The Song from Advise and Consent
      Music by Jerry Fielding

      Lyrics by Ned Washington

      Sung Frank Sinatra - voice on juke box

    User reviews78

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    8/10
    A stately, dry, involving film--with some edgy social issues for the day
    Advise and Consent (1962)

    A moving look at a fictional moment in American politics. We see the dirty deals behind the scenes, but also that dignity and wisdom is preserved by some of the men (and one woman, shown). And we see the power of the system, the value of begrudging respect for those with opposite views, and plain old simplicity of being on the Senate floor and making points, orally, in front of a bunch of others, some of them actually listening.

    Reminds me of my classrooms, and that brings government down to a level of believability. That's the secret to the movie, overall, it's ability to make the people real, including a host of really great actors like Charles Laughton and Walter Pidgeon, and of course Henry Fonda, who has a smaller role. Franchot Tone makes a believable ailing president, and it's great to see Gene Tierney in 1962, perfectly cast as a cool, smiley Senator's wife.

    Otto Preminger is one of those revered directors who was always tweaking the moral edges of Hollywood, and therefore of America, and the spectacular thread that rises as the movie goes along, of a homosexual subculture existing at all in 1962, and arising from the activity of soldiers, and penetrating the Senate directly, was weirdly controversial stuff. Of course, it's almost ridiculous now, but it wasn't then, and to hear the central senator refer to another senator's gay military experience as a "tired old sin" is hard stuff for those of use who have grown up thinking "each to their own," or even "don't ask don't tell."

    Preminger also irked a few anti-Communists by using a couple of left-wing actors, including Burgess Meredith, who has a small but memorable role. And the whole notion of a potential Secretary of State once having been superficially involved in a "Communist cell block" is interesting here partly because it shows how silly accusations can be, attacking things you do when you're twenty and have fully rejected or outgrown. Fonda is that figure of utter respectability for the good reason that he represents utter morality and patriotism, without become a cardboard flag-waver.

    Though released to a public well into the Kennedy era, it feels like an Eisenhower world, with a couple younger senators easily looking like the Kennedy type, but still not President. The belligerent Old South conservative is, tellingly, a Democrat, back in the days when the South was pretty much conservative democratic. There are no parties mentioned, actually, but the leading voices seem to be liberal in their foreign policy, more like the Kennedy tone (or from the 50s, the tone of Adlai Stevenson, who lost the nomination bid to Kennedy in 1960). The book that led to the movie, by Allen Drury, was finished in 1959, and Drury was a bit of a right-winger, critical of the media he was part of, and openly anti-Communist. The events in the story (book and movie both) take one notable liberty: the Senator with a "homosexual scandal" in his past was Lester Hunt of Wyoming, whose son was a homosexual. That was enough to make the father a blackmail target, leading to Hunt's suicide.

    That none of this matters is tribute to the movie, which really captures 1950s style American politics in a bright, Hollywood way. I mean that positively. It's not a gritty documentary, and it doesn't make scandal out of everything. But the air is familiar, the tone, the looks, the clothes. And it is supremely well done, from the dignified camera-work (nothing film noir here) to the solid editing and storytelling, to of course the acting itself. Not exciting, but very involving and interesting.
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    • Release date
      • June 6, 1962 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Warner Bros.
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Predlog i pristanak
    • Filming locations
      • Columbia/Sunset Gower Studios - 1438 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(Studio, Senate Chamber - interiors)
    • Production companies
      • Otto Preminger Films
      • Alpha Alpina
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 19 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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