'Advise & Consent' - Film Screening and Discussion with Foster Hirsch

Program Type:

Film, Lecture

Age Group:

Adults
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Advise & Consent (1962 - 139 min.) is an American political drama film, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Allen Drury, that follows the nomination process of a man who commits perjury in confirmation hearings for his nomination as Secretary of State.  Directed by Otto Preminger, the star-studded cast features Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton (in his final film role), Don Mur-ray, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney, Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Burgess Meredith, Eddie Hodges, Paul Ford, George Grizzard, Inga Swenson, Betty White, Edward Andrews, and others.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with FOSTER HIRSCH, a professor of film at Brooklyn College, and the author of sixteen books on film and theater, including Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties, Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King, The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir, and A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio.

Co-sponsored by the Gold Coast Arts Center