ADVISE & CONSENT (1962)

 




















Directed by: Otto Preminger
Based on the novel by: Allen Drury
Starring: Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney, Paul Ford, George Grizzard, Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Burgess Meredith, Eddie Hodges, Inga Swenson, Edward Andrews, Paul McGrath, Will Geer, Betty White, Malcolm Atterbury, J. Edward McKinley, Bill Quinn, Tom Helmore, Irv Kupcinet, John Granger, Henry F. Ashurst, David McCullough

138 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
When the President of the United States nominates Robert A. Leffingwell to the post of Secretary of State, it's left to the U.S. Senate to confirm the appointment. Leffingwell is eminently qualified for the post but is seen by many in both parties, especially Senator Seabright Cooley, as an appeaser and soft on Communism. The Senate Majority Leader, Bob Munson, appoints an up and coming Young Senator, Brigham Anderson, to chair the sub-committee reviewing the nomination. The hearing soon becomes a communist witch hunt with Leffingwell denying any communist affiliations or leanings. When Anderson learns that Leffingwell did in fact attend several meetings for a communist cell and lied to the committee, he refuses to support the nomination. That's when he and his wife start to receive phone calls threatening to reveal something from his past unless he supports the Leffingwell nomination.

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