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DVD Details
- 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
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 R. Loeffler | |
Screenwriting by | Wendell Mayes | |
Composition by | Jerry Fielding | |
Cinematography by | Sam Leavitt | |
Story by | Allen Drury | |
Produced by | Otto Preminger |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Incisive, sometimes brutal, study of American high politics, based on Allen Drury's best-selling novel, featuring outstanding performances from the leads and a great collection of character actors.
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TV Guide
...A hornet's nest....One of the savviest of all films about politics... -- Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 5/5 --
Subestimado em sua própria época e injustamente esquecido por muitos nos dias de hoje, este olhar complexo e fascinante sobre os bastidores de Washington permanece atual em sua maneira rica e ambígüa de tratar seus temas e personagens.
Cinema em Cena
The settings are powerfully like real. A Senate hearing room, the Senate itself, a party home in immediate Washington and varying apartments plus a place in DC suburbia all have the look of genuineness.
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Variety
Rating: A- --
A poignant, biting expose of the American political process, boasting a large ensemble of terrific actors (Fonda, Laughton), Preminger's saga set the trend of future, more sensationalitsic political melodramas like Fail Safe and All the President's Men.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Preminger's visual savvy turns that most staid and insufferable of social terrariums, the floor of the U.S. Senate, into a vibrant, perpetually shifting Voronoi diagram.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: C+ --
Viewing it today, its quaintness and timidness make it seem out of step with the even more insidious contemporary times.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 119,859
- UPC: 085393352325
- Shipping Weight: 0.28/lbs (approx)
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