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Advise & Consent (1962)
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6 June 1962 (USA)
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Are the men and women of Washington really like this?
Plot:
Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
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1 nomination
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A Fun Didactic Old Thing
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Henry Fonda | ... | Robert A. Leffingwell | |
| Charles Laughton | ... | Senator Seabright 'Seab' Cooley | |
| Don Murray | ... | Senator Brigham Anderson | |
| Walter Pidgeon | ... | Senate Majority Leader Bob Munson | |
| Peter Lawford | ... | Senator Lafe Smith | |
| Gene Tierney | ... | Dolly Harrison | |
| Franchot Tone | ... | The President | |
| Lew Ayres | ... | Vice President Harley Hudson | |
| Burgess Meredith | ... | Herbert Gelman | |
| Eddie Hodges | ... | Johnny Leffingwell | |
| Paul Ford | ... | Senator Stanley Danta | |
| George Grizzard | ... | Senator Fred Van Ackerman | |
| Inga Swenson | ... | Ellen Anderson | |
| Frank Sinatra | ... | Himself - on Recording at Gay Bar (voice) (archive sound) | |
| Edward Andrews | ... | Senator Orrin Knox |
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139 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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UK:PG (TV rating) |
UK:U (original rating) |
West Germany:12 (f) |
Finland:K-16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:12 |
Australia:M |
USA:Approved (PCA #20078)
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Although the character of The President (played by Franchot Tone carries no role name, at one point in the script Munson (played by Walter Pidgeon) calls him "Russ".
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Factual errors: Certain errors are made in the way senators are usually called upon or addressed in the Senate chamber. In the film, senators are almost always referred to as "The senior (or junior) senator from" a state, but in fact the terms senior or junior are seldom used in recognizing or referring to a senator on the floor or in committee. Also, when Senator Lafe Smith is called on during the climactic roll call and at first doesn't answer, the clerk repeats his name, at which point he responds "No". But in actual Senate practice a senator's name is not called a second time until after the initial roll call has been completed.
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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.
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Referenced in "Home Improvement: Advise and Repent (#5.5)" (1995)
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The Song from Advise and Consent
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So condescending, to everyone. Washington socialite Gene Tirney comes into the public gallery of Congress escorting two diplomat's wives, the British and the French. She gives the French wife a lesson into the workings of Congress, the French lady doesn't seem to know anything about the American executive branch or understand it. Why didn't the French sue? Or women for that matter. Behind the camera there is a man with a tyrannic brain a misogynistic eye and a very old sensibility, if any. What's fun about this politically incorrect tired tale is precisely the incorrectness, the melodramatic turn and Charles Laughton. Betrayal and conspiracy in the corridors of power has always been a favorite subject from Shakespeare and beyond but here there is a massive problem and I can't decide whether it takes itself too seriously or not seriously enough. See it by yourself and enjoy a terrific Laughton.