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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790792064 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen ISBN: 0790792060 Item Dimensions: Label: Warner Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Warner Home Video MPN: D33523D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 10, 2005 Running Time: 138 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: June 06, 1962 Editorial Review: Product Description: A controversial political appointee triggers DC gamesmanship and scandal. Henry Fonda Walter Pidgeon and Charles Laughton in Otto Preminger's film of Allen Drury's best seller. Year: 1962 Director: Otto Preminger Starring: Henry Fonda Don Murray Charles LaughtonRunning Time: 138 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 085393352325 Amazon.com: 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 politics, 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Worth Seeing More Than OnceThis is politics as it used to be, when the Senate was composed mostly of people of good will, with differing ideas, and the meanspirited politics of destruction, so typical today, was unusual. Not that the story isn't controversial and interesting, but the backdrop is that of a Senate one could be proud of. There is the justly infamous, stupidly stereotypical, "gay bar scene" which is hugely hard to take. But otherwise the acting is superb and the characters fascinating and very real. ... Read More Rating:  - Great political movie that hasn't dated one iota...spoilers...This is one of Preminger's masterpieces, a film that, surprisingly, has dated very little. It takes place during the Cold War, and while that may have subsided (at least for now), the talk of "loyal to the country" and talk of Communism hasn't gone away from the American political vocabulary. The film is one of the most fascinating, meticulous political thrillers ever made, and it's also a great suspense movie as well. It's also refreshing to see (and hear) Senators be somewhat civil to each other ... Read More Rating: - OTTO PREMINGER, OPUS 28***** 1962. Based on Allen Drury's Advise and Consent, ADVISE & CONSENT was produced and directed by Otto Preminger. Washington D.C. When the President decides to choose Robert A. Leffingwell as new Secretary of State, he knows very well that it won't be easy to get the votes of the senators of his own party. Furthermore, during the hearings, Leffingwell is accused to have patronized a communist cell when in Chicago. After The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, Saint Joan [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import ... Read More Rating: - A Preminger Classic"Advice and Consent" A Preminger Classic Amos Lassen It has been several years since I watched Otto Preminger's "Advice and Consent" and I had forgotten what a powerful movie it is--even now more than forty years after it was made. Based on Allen Drury's epic novel of wheeling and dealing in Washington D.C., it is a classic political thriller with an all-star cast and a very overt gay theme. When John Kennedy was elected President in 1960, Hollywood began to take ... Read More Rating: - "What I Did Was For The Good Of The Country:" The Political Shocker Of 1962As a Congressional correspondent for the New York Times during the 1950s, author Allen Drury had ample opportunity to witness Washington politicians in their natural habit---and drew upon numerous factual sources, including the controversial Alger Hiss case and the scandalous suicide of Senator Lester Hunt, to create the story of a controversial nominee for Secretary of State. The novel was not only a best seller, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. It was also a book that Hollywood could not film ... Read More |
