Advise & Consent [VHS]

Advise & Consent [VHS]
by Otto Preminger

Advise & Consent [VHS]

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Actor: Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Henry Fonda, Lew Ayres, Walter Pidgeon
Director: Otto Preminger
Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt
Producer: Otto Preminger
Editor: Louis R. Loeffler
Writer: Allen Drury
Writer: Wendell Mayes
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: PAL
Running Time: 139 minutes

VHS Movie Reviews of Advise & Consent [VHS]

Movie Review: A classic political movie with a great cast
Summary: 4 Stars

Washington has changed but politics is pretty much the same. Advise and Consent is a solid film and still relevant 45 years on. The book's author fashioned his characters after real life counterparts which you'll recognize if you know anything about politics in the 50's and 60's. Many of their philosophical descendents can be found today.

Otto Preminger is competent as always. The story moves along for a longish film. An all star cast certainly doesn't hurt. Well worth your time.

Movie Review: Must see movies BEFORE voting
Summary: 5 Stars

The following should be compulsory watching before
one is able to vote.
1.) Advise and Consent -1962

2.) The Best Man-1964
3.) Power-1986
4.) The Candidate-1972
5.) Seven Days in May-1964
6.) Fail Safe-1964

Movie Review: When Politics Was Still Respected
Summary: 4 Stars

Too many good actors to name: Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon, Gene Tierney with her beautiful overbite, and Charles Laughton as a Southern Senator. Charles Laughton's performance in this film became the role model from my Senator Clint Bufford character in my novel EVERGREEN IS MOVING. This movie shows the back room deals made for a controversial candidate with the smoothness of butter melting warmly in your mouth, and almost as enjoyable. The film has aged well.

Movie Review: DVD Advise and Consent
Summary: 5 Stars

Thank you very much for providing exactly what I was looking for and in such an efficient manner

Movie Review: Overlong Political Drama With Fine Performances
Summary: 3 Stars

An all-star cast breathes life into director Otto Preminger's somewhat ponderous adaptation of the Allen Drury novel. "Advise and Consent" (1962) would have benefited from a tighter script, but Preminger makes the most of the Washington political environment. Worth seeing for Charles Laughton's splendid final performance and Burgess Meredith's memorable turn as a lying witness.

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Summary of Advise & Consent [VHS]

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

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