Advise and Consent

Starring: Henry Fonda & Charles Laughton Director: Otto Preminger

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WHV 33523D

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DVD Features:

Rated: Not Rated
Closed captioning available
Run Time: 2 hours, 18 minutes
Video: Black & White
Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
Released: May 10, 2005
Originally Released: 1962
Label: Warner Home Video

Encoding: Region (unknown)

Packaging: Keep Case

Aspect Ratio: Widescreen 2.40

Dolby Digital 1.0 - English
Suntitles - English, French, Spanish

Additional Release Material:

Audio Commentary - Drew Casper - Film Historian
Original Theatrical Trailer

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring		Henry Fonda & Charles Laughton
Performer:		Gene Tierney, Burgess Meredith, Peter Lawford, Walter Pidgeon, Don Murray, Lew Ayres & Franchot Tone
Directed by		Otto Preminger
Edited by		Louis Loeffler
Screenwriting by		Wendell Mayes
Composition by		Jerry Fielding
Cinematography by		Sam Leavitt
Story by		Allen Drury
Produced by		Otto Preminger

Entertainment Reviews:

Entertainment Weekly - 07/29/1994
"...A hornet's nest....One of the savviest of all films about politics..." -- Rating: A

USA Today - 08/12/1994
"...[With] many good performances..."

Premiere - 06/01/2005
"[A]bsolutely the best film ever made about American politics..."

Product Description:

Preminger's political thriller examines the dark side of politics and its tragic personal repercussions for an essentially decent man. When a President nominates a controversial candidate for Secretary of State, the political dealing and infighting begins as dissident legislators are willing to stoop even to blackmail to stop his confirmation -- or assure it. Preminger seemed to hit his stride lending a documentary tension to legal or political settings, and this is one of his best. Laughton's last role.

Description by Warner Home Video:

A controversial political appointee triggers DC gamesmanship and scandal. Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon and Charles Laughton in Otto Preminger's film of Allen Drury's best seller.

Plot Keywords:

Mystery | Politics | Theatrical Release | Thriller

Production Notes:

This 1962 film, like many of Otto Preminger's other films, tread on controversial territory, namely homosexuality and McCarthyism. The film contains a scene set in a gay bar, an almost unheard of image in a big-budget film in 1962.
Because the theatrical production of the story (itself based on a best-selling novel) was still playing when the film was made, the movie's opening was held off in a rights dispute.
There is a computer-colorized version of the video available.
The title sequence, with its animated Capitol Building with a dome that "lifts", and a montage of waving American flags, was designed by Saul Bass.
Shot in Panavision.
Charles Laughton's final screen appearance.

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