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Titolo originale: Advise & Consent
Regia: Otto Preminger |
Anno: 1962
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma
Tag: usa president | washington dc, usa | based on novel or book | senate | senator | politician | based on play or musical | anti-communism | lgbt | senate hearing | secret past | usa politics | secretary of state | gay theme |
Cast: Henry Fonda | Charles Laughton | Don Murray | Walter Pidgeon | Peter Lawford | Gene Tierney | Franchot Tone | Lew Ayres | Burgess Meredith | Eddie Hodges | Paul Ford | George Grizzard | Inga Swenson | Frank Sinatra | Edward Andrews | Paul McGrath | Will Geer | Betty White | Tom Helmore | Rene Paul | Paul Stevens | Russ Brown | Malcolm Atterbury | Janet Jane Carty | Hilary Eaves | Michele Montau | J. Edward McKinley | Bill Quinn | Tiki Santos | Raoul De Leon | Chet Stratton | Larry Tucker | Betty Murray | John Granger | Sid Gould | Meyer Davis | Irv Kupcinet | Robert C. Wilson | Alan Emory | Jesse Stearns Buscher | Milton Berliner | Allan W. Cromley | William Knighton | Guy M. Gillette | Henry Fountain Ashurst | Raj Mallick | Leon Alton | Walter Bacon | Joe Baird | Eddie Baker | Brandon Beach | Mario Cimino | Roger Clark | Paul Cristo | Harry Denny | George DeNormand | George Ford | Cay Forester | Bobby Gilbert | Polly Guggenheim | Clive Halliday | Helen Hardin | Henry Jackson | Virgil Johansen | Kenner G. Kemp | Joseph La Cava | Evelyn Lincoln | Al McGranary | William Meader | Harold Miller | Sol Murgi | Norman Papson | Charles Perry | Paul Power | Walter Reed | Leoda Richards | Clark Ross | John Roy | Carlisle Runge | Dick Ryan | Jeffrey Sayre | Louis Scheyven | Bernard Sell | Stephen Soldi | Marion Lloyd Stearns White | Hal Taggart | Wayne Tucker | Harty Wadsworth | Jerry Wadsworth | Byron White |

Nominato dal Presidente degli Stati Uniti per il posto di Segretario di Stato, Robert Leffingwell compare davanti a una commissione del Senato, presieduta dall'idealista senatore Brig Anderson, che deve decidere se è la persona giusta per il lavoro.

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The title derives from the United States Constitution's Article II, Sec. 2, cl. 2, which provides th [...] D
Film debut of Betty White. D
Burgess Meredith, as Herbert Gelman, testifies against Leffingwell at the latter's confirmation hear [...] D
The Academy Film Archive preserved Advise & Consent in 2007. D
Henry Fonda's character Leffingwell has similarities to real-life State Department official Alger Hi [...] D
Although the character of The President (played by Franchot Tone) carries no role name, at one point [...] D
The blackmail attempt is based on the case of Wyoming Sen. Lester C. Hunt, who was blackmailed by me [...] D
Henry Fonda (1923) and Inga Swenson (1950) both graduated from Omaha Central High School. D
Not only was this a return for Gene Tierney after a long break due to health issues, but also a reun [...] D
For the scenes taking place inside the US Senate, Columbia dusted off its senate set built for "Mr. [...] D
At the beginning of the movie, Senator Cooley gets off a streetcar in front of a Senate office build [...] D
While Allen Drury was writing the novel on which this film is based, John F. Kennedy, upon whom the [...] D
Frank Sinatra lobbied hard for the part of Von Ackerman. George Grizzard won the role as Otto Premin [...] D
Opening credits: This Story is fiction.THE CHARACTERS AND INCIDENTS PORTRAYED AND THE NAMES USED ARE [...] D
Gene Tierney's comeback film after she had withdrawn from acting for several years due to her ongoin [...] D
Appearing in two scenes as Senator McCafferty - who, whenever awakened from a deep sleep, automatica [...] D
The man who is seen turning down a drink from a passing waiter is then-U.S. Senator and future Democ [...] D
Director Otto Preminger offered the role of a Southern senator to Martin Luther King Jr., believing [...] D
Final film of Hilary Eaves. D
Walter Pidgeon and George Grizzard had appeared together in the original Broadway cast of "The Happi [...] D
"Advise & Consent" was one of a number of Preminger films that challenged both the Motion Picture As [...] D
Peter Lawford was cast because Otto Preminger valued his access to the Kennedy family. Lawford was J [...] D
Average Shot Length (ASL) = 18 seconds D
Former Vice President Richard Nixon was offered the role of the Vice President but refused. D
Charles Laughton, Burgess Meredith and Franchot Tone all appeared in" The Man on the Eiffel Tower", [...] D
In the late 1960s Ethan Coen and Joel Coen shot their own version of "Advise and Consent" on Joel's [...] D
Evelyn Lincoln is listed in the cast, playing the part of a Washington party guest. Those old enough [...] D
Charlton Heston was offered the part of Brig Anderson, but the actor did not think it a strong part. [...] D
Last film with Franchot Tone and Charles Laughton together. They both first starred in "Mutiny on th [...] D
There is a scene showing Sen. Seabright 'Seab' Cooley and Senate Majority Leader Bob Munson driving [...] D
In the novel, the president is behind the attempt to blackmail Senator Anderson, and Senator Van Ack [...] D
There was genuine lingering animosity between Charles Laughton and Henry Fonda, stemming from Laught [...] D
"Advise & Consent" was the first mainstream film to feature a scene set inside a gay bar. D
In the film, the President denies any knowledge of the blackmail plot against Senator Anderson. In t [...] D
Charles Laughton acted with and was directed by Burgess Meredith in "The Man on the Eiffel Tower." M [...] D
The film's plot centers on a terminally ill President trying to preserve his foreign policy agenda b [...] D
Vice President Harley Hudson is mentioned as coming from Delaware. Some 47 years later Joe Biden of [...] D
Final film of Charles Laughton. He died of cancer six months after the movie was released. D
The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Allen Drury, who was a congressional corres [...] D
The movie was produced in 1961 and was released about five months prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis [...] D

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In the opening scene, Senator Dana is heading toward the Capitol as he buys a newspaper. He is heade [...] D
In the novel, Brig Anderson is identified as a Mormon (the film does not state this). At one point t [...] D
Certain errors are made in the way senators are usually called upon or addressed in the Senate chamb [...] D
When Senator Brig Anderson returns home after the black-tie party, he enters his bedroom and removes [...] D
When the women are speaking in the gallery before the first Senate session, Mrs. Harrison says the " [...] D
Herbert Gelman testifies that he lived at 2714 Carpenter Street while attending the University of Ch [...] D
During the roll call vote on Leffingwell's nomination, as the Majority Leader walks up to the Vice P [...] D
When the roll call vote is being conducted on the motion to advise and consent to Leffingwell's nomi [...] D
Until his elevation to the Presidency, Vice President Hudson is not shown traveling with Secret Serv [...] D
When the Majority Leader meets the Vice President in Dolly Harrison's garden during her party, the s [...] D
When the scene where the tour guide is talking about Lt. Grant and Lt. Lee in the Mexican War, he st [...] D
Vice President Harley Hudson does not cast the tie-breaking vote on the Leffingwell nomination after [...] D
As the security guard enters Senator Anderson's office the telephone is ringing. The rings (apparent [...] D
Senator Kanaho, the Senator from Hawaii, is shown seated on the minority side of the aisle in the Se [...] D
Senator Brigham Anderson of Utah is shown in his home drinking from a distinctive fluted Coca-Cola b [...] D

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