Storm over Washington
| Movie | |
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| German title | Storm over Washington |
| Original title | Advise and Consent |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 138 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Otto Preminger |
| script | Wendell Mayes |
| production | Otto Preminger |
| music | Jerry Fielding |
| camera | Sam Leavitt |
| cut | Louis Loeffler |
| occupation | |
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Storm over Washington (Original title: Advise and Consent ) is an American film drama by the director Otto Preminger from 1962 and is based on the novel Power and Law by Allen Drury . The German premiere was on October 12, 1962.
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Liberal professor Robert Leffingwell is proposed as a candidate for the post of US Secretary of State . The proposal comes from the President of the USA , who is in his second term in office , who is seriously ill and wants the office of foreign minister in safe hands after his death.
As a review body, the United States Senate must review the proposed candidates and approve or deny the candidacy. There is a fight in the Senate between supporters and opponents of the president. This fight is sometimes very heated. The experienced politician Seabright Cooley in particular speaks out against the nomination, although he is in the same party: He still has an old dispute to settle with Leffingwell. Leffingwell is supported by Majority Leader Munson, who is loyal to the President, and the power-hungry and demagogic Senator Van Ackerman. The board of examiners will be chaired by young Senator Brig Anderson, much to the annoyance of Van Ackerman, who was hoping for the job.
At the invitation of Cooley, nervous tax officer Herbert Gelman testifies before the panel as a witness. Gelman reports that he was briefly in a communist cell with Leffingwell at the University of Chicago . This is particularly explosive because Leffingwell is campaigning for a more relaxed policy with the Soviet Union . He describes himself as innocent and successfully portrays Gelman as a liar before the panel. The idealistic Anderson, who cannot get used to the political trench warfare, learns with the help of Cooley, however, that Leffingwell lied to the committee and was actually once a communist. He calls on the President to remove the perjured Leffingwell from the list of candidates. However, the president wants to hold on to his candidate.
Anderson does not want to stand up for Leffingwell as Secretary of State, making Van Ackerman his enemy. He blackmailed the young family man Anderson with a homosexual love affair from the past. Anderson eventually commits suicide. Van Ackerman is later made aware by Majority Leader Munson that they knew of his blackmail and that people like him did not want in Washington.
The Senate vote on whether Leffingwell should become Foreign Minister is tied after heated debate. The Vice President of Hudson - a friendly, but often ignored by his colleagues from Washington man - is also president of the Senate. Hudson is expected to vote for Leffingwell, but he is not exercising his right because the US President died during the vote. Hudson is now the new president and announces that he will elect his own foreign minister, while Munson calls on the Senate to commemorate the late president.
background
Allen Drury , the author of the literary source, was working as a political correspondent for the New York Times when he was writing the novel. In 1960 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his work .
Director Otto Preminger was known for addressing controversial topics in his films, in this case homosexuality. So true and Consent first Hollywood film after the Second World War with a scene in a gay bar. Preminger drew further attention with the claim that he won Martin Luther King for a supporting role as an African-American senator (although there were no black senators in the real Senate at the time). The report turned out to be a mistake, though King had considered Preminger's offer of a role, but ultimately declined it. King noted that his performance did not benefit the civil rights movement , and it might also have sparked hostility. Henry F. Ashurst , a then 87-year-old retired senator, appears in two scenes as a sleepy senator. Ashurst wakes up from his deep sleep to automatically say “Opposed, sir! Opposed! ” .
For Charles Laughton , his militant Senator Storm over Washington was the last role, he suffered from cancer while filming. In contrast, Betty White can be seen in a supporting role as a young senator in her film debut. In the 1980s and 1990s, she was best known as Rose on the television series Golden Girls . Peter Lawford , who plays Senator and women hero Lafe Smith, was the brother-in-law of US President John F. Kennedy at the time of filming through his marriage to Patricia Kennedy . His character has often been seen as leaning towards John F. Kennedy.
Five-time Oscar winner Lyle R. Wheeler was responsible for the production design. Columbia Pictures used the same film set for the Senate scenes that was used by Frank Capra 23 years earlier for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington .
Frank Sinatra contributed a special recording of the song Heart Of Mine (Song from 'Advise and Consent' ) written by Jerry Fielding and Ned Washington in September 1961 for the film . It sounds in the scene in the gay bar from the jukebox .
German version
The German synchronized editing was created in 1962.
Awards
- 1962: NBA Award from the National Board of Review for Burgess Meredith
- 1962: Nomination for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival
Reviews
"Theses-laden chamber play directed by Otto Preminger, which offers interesting insights into the functioning of the US state apparatus, but remains all too noncommittal by ignoring real backgrounds (the McCarthy era!)."
literature
- Allen Drury : Power and Law. Where's the conscience, Mr President? Roman (Original title: Advise and Consent ). German by Werner Jochens . Diana-Verlag, Konstanz and Stuttgart 1961, 529 pp.
Web links
- Advise and Consent in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short review at Variety
- Christopher Null: Advise and Consent. In: Filmcritic.com. 2005, archived from the original on March 20, 2007 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clearance Certificate for Storm Over Washington . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2012 (PDF; test number: 28 089 V).
- ^ Advise & Consent (1962) - Articles. In: Turner Classic Movies . Accessed December 30, 2019 .
- ^ David W. Dunlap: 1961 | Starring Martin Luther King Jr. (and Henry Fonda) . In: The New York Times . 2016, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed October 18, 2017]).
- ^ Advise & Consent (1962) - Trivia. In: Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved October 18, 2017 (English).
- ^ Advise & Consent (1962) at IMDb Trivia. Retrieved October 18, 2017 .
- ^ Advise & Consent (1962) at IMDb Trivia. Retrieved October 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Storm over Washington in Arne Kaul's synchronous database ; Retrieved October 3, 2008
- ↑ Storm over Washington. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 30, 2019 .