Posted on 08/29/2018 7:51:18 AM PDT by iowamark
Watched the 1962 movie 'Advice and Consent' on TCM last night. It really is a great political movie. Director Otto Preminger did a great job. I am not sure how they could afford such a great cast.
Many stars of Classic Hollywood:
Franchot Tone as the (shady) President
Lew Ayres as The (simple minded but honest) Vice President
Charles Laughton as South Carolina Senator Seabright Cooley
Don Murray as young Utah Senator Brigham Anderson
Walter Pidgeon as Senate Majority Leader Bob Munson
Henry Fonda as a Lefty Academic turned government bureaucrat, nominated for Secretary of State
Peter Lawford(then married to President Kennedy's sister Jean) as Senator Lafe Smith
Gene Tierney as DC hostess Dolly Harrison
Burgess Meredith as troubled government bureaucrat Herbert Gelman
Paul Ford as Senate Majority Whip Stanley Danta
George Grizzard as Lefty Sen. Fred Van Ackerman
The President wants a lefty Secretary of State Fonda to make a deal with the Soviets. Henry Fonda is hiding his Communist past. The young Senator from Utah hesitates to support Fonda so the President organizes a smear based on the Senator's homosexual past.
The Senators (including a young Betty White) are portrayed as decent people trying to do their best within the system.
Henry Fonda okays his usual sanctimonious, holier-than-thou self - on the other hand, Sir Charles Laughton is as usual wonderful - “something’s happened!”.....
My favorite Preminger movie is “Carmen Jones.”
That is one movie I’m not familiar with. I’ll have to look it up.
That’s an interesting side note about Laughton’s citizenship.
I should add, my favorite Laughton movie would be “Witness for the Prosecution.”
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