Advise and Consent
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Movie Reviews of Advise and Consent
Movie Review: Worth Seeing More Than Once
Summary: 4 Stars
This 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. This is a DVD to own, not rent.
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: 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: Advise and Consent
Summary: 4 Stars
I've always loved this movie and even though I had a colorized version of it I wanted to own a wide screen and black and white original as it was filmed.
Besides all these I'm collcting all Gene Tierney's movies that I can find and there are not too many that I don't have.
Movie Review: Advise and Consent
Summary: 3 Stars
ADVISE AND CONSENT, Otto Preminger's political potboiler from 1962, is salvaged by a deep cast of talented performers, all hitting their marks and some, I'm sorry to say, rising above the movie.
President Franchot Tone nominates old friend Henry Fonda to be Secretary of State. Majority leader Walter Pidgeon, a loyal soldier, supports the President's nomination. A special Senate foreign relations committee, chaired by Senator Don Murray, convenes to vet the nominee. Codgy old Senator Charles Laughton, from South Carolina, opposes the nomination. He's an old foe of Hank Fonda. Feisty young firebrand Senator George Grizzard supports the nominee, and will go to great lengths - any length, actually - to assure Senate consent. Everyone's got a feud going with someone and just about everyone's got a skeleton or two in the closet.
This one's a lot more melodramatic soap opera than gripping political drama, although Pidgeon, Laughton, and a couple others keep it grounded and relatively entertaining. Professor Drew Casper gives a very well organized and thorough commentary, detailing the history of the Allen Drury best-seller this movie is drawn from, background on Preminger and a fairly complete breakdown of the Preminger Style - the way Preminger gives star entrances to his stars, his preference for location above studio sets in the interest of realism, his preference for two-shots as opposed to reaction shots (it allows the audience to make up their own mind), etc. I have to admit I enjoyed Casper's commentary track quite a bit more than I enjoyed the movie. A tepid endorsement for ADVISE AND CONSENT.