ADVISE AND CONSENT

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• Release Year: 1962
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: The setting is familiar. A Senate subcommittee meets to confirm the President's controversial nominee for Secretary of State. A TV camera rolls. And the wolf is at the door; ; Three years after Anatomy of a Murder, Otto Preminger examined the body politic in Advise & Consent. The story is one of power and procedure: deals become extortion, closets reveal skeletons, careers are crushed. History buffs may think they recall real-life counterparts to the characters depicted. Movie fans can revel in a rare starpower array: Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon, Don Murray, Gene Tierney, Peter Lawford, Franchot Tone and Charles Laughton in his final role. The gavel has sounded. Let the proceedings - and backstage maneuverings - begin.
• Cast: Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney, Burgess Meredith, Eddie Hodges, Paul Ford, George Grizzard, Inga Swenson, Paul McGrath, Will Geer, Edward Andrews, Betty White, Malcolm Atterbury, J. Edward McKinley, Bill Quinn, Tiki Santos, Raoul De Leon, Tom Helmore, Hilary Eaves, Rene Paul, Michele Montau, Raj Mallick, Russ Brown, Janet Jane Carty, Chet Stratton, Larry Tucker, John Granger, Sid Gould, Frank Sinatra, Paul Stevens, Bettie Johnson, Meyer Davis, White House Correspondents Association, White House Press Photographers Association, Irv Kupcinet, Robert C. Wilson, Alan Emory, Jesse Stearns Buscher, Milton Berliner, Allan W. Cromley, William Knighton, Guy M. Gillette, Henry Fountain Ashurst, Leon Alton, Eddie Baker, Brandon Beach, Mario Cimino, Roger Clark, Harry Denny, George DeNormand, Cay Forester, Clive Halliday, Henry Jackson, Virgil Johanson, Kenner G. Kemp, Al McGranary, Harold Miller, Paul Power, Walter Reed, Leoda Richards, Dick Ryan, Jeffrey Sayre, Bernard Sell, Hal Taggart, Wayne Tucker, Otto Preminger, Allen Drury, Wendell Mayes, Sam Leavitt, Louis R. Loeffler, Jerry Fielding
• Director: Otto Preminger
• Runtime: 2:18
• Company: Warner Home Video, Columbia Pictures, Otto Preminger Films
• Media Format: Movie