Such a brilliant movie, based on a brilliant book. The black and white is also one of the reasons that it is superb, because it takes away the bells and whistles and focuses us on the words, the performances, the facial movements, the gestures. This is a sublime viewing experience and every schoolchild should be exposed to it. When I taught a humanities class in high school I always made sure to screen the film for my students, and they always, boy or girl, came away impressed.
In many respects this, Laughton's last movie role, was his greatest performance. Much as I abominate his character's principles (or lack of them) Laughton's brilliant portrayal of a character whom he must also have despised is truly brilliant. Indeed, so impressed was I that I procured and read the novel on which this film was based.
Probably Charles Laughton's greatest performance.. a superb adaptation of Allen Drury's Cold War masterpiece about political honor. and pride in Washington DC.
Joseph Harder 2 years ago: "Political honor and pride"? Are we talking about the same film, ADVISE AND CONSENT? It was much more about political pragmatism and LGBTQ paranoia, about the super-patriot and the simply stupid, about cynical conflation of socialism with communism and lastly. the pitiful few dedicated politicians who maintain the creaking and wheezing machinery in motion while emitting a semblance of stability. The USA citizen would not be blamed for yearning after those halcyon days when confronted with the obscene spectacle presented to him/her by the current zoo.
@@warrenglover6633 Among other things, The President is too proud to admit that he made a mistake and to let the honorable Mr. Leffingwell withdraw. We did not see different films; we simply had different interpretations. BTW, my FULL comment in my Facebook group, or. to be precise the opening paragraph was: "Charles Laughton's, last, crowning, performance as the extremely eloquent-and extremely Machiavellian Conservative Democrat senator from the "great state Of South Carolina", Seabright, "Seab" Cooley in Otto Preminger's never fully appreciated adaptation of Allen Drury's all-time best selling Cold War masterpiece about pride, loyalty, sex, ambition and patriotism in Washington D.C, Advise And Consent.
And Henry VIII (twice), Nero, Claudius, Inspector Javert, Inspector Maigret, Captain Kidd (twice), Rembrandt, Sir Simon de Canterville, Galileo, King Herod, Henry Hobson, Sir Wilfred Robarts, Sempronius Gracchus, and many more unforgettable characters.
I'm an Edward Andrews fanatic (He is the household face who has played in every movie and TV series, but whose identity is a mystery to the general public. He plays the distinguished senior Senator Knox from Illinois).
I am an Edward Andrews fanatic to infinity and beyond. It is my dream for someone to write a biography about him I would do it myself but am so limited.
@@nelliethursday1812Edward Andrew's was in the movie with Barbara Eden and Tony Randall in 1964 The Brass Bottle and a few years later in 1969 in an episode of I Dream of Jeannie with Barbara Eden again! 😊
It would be a notable feather in the cap of any RUclips entrepreneur if he/she could present us with a good to fair print of the entire ADVISE AND CONSENT for free viewing. I have searched in vain since YT began. I much admire Laughton as an actor. He commands the audience's attention with a sureness and deftness of effort that marks a true professional. His last role on the screen was probably his best. But was there ever a time and a role when it was not thus? It is with some trepidation then that I admit to being pleasantly surprised how well Sir Ralph Richardson and Deborah Kerr reprised the roles played by Charles and Elsa. Both versions are excellent entertainment. Both reward a rapt viewing.
I'll have to see the movie, and listened to the audio version of the book it's based on. Besides Laughton, others I recognize, by name, at least, are Betty White, Henry Fonda, and Burgess Meredith.
I to very much admire Charles Laughton and I find his greatest performance ever on the silver screen to be Abbott and Costello meet captain Kidd. Lou teaches Charles Laughton how to do a double take And both he and Bud Abbott became quite good friends of Charles Laughton.
Could someone please upload the scene where Brig's wife hugs him and says she'll never leave him no matter what he's done? That has to be one of the most heart wrenching scenes in the world of cinema.
We could never have actors like Laughton in Hollywood today. Charles Laughton was never a good-looking man. Almost from birth he appears to have been pudgy, short and - frankly - ugly. But the camera loves him and he cannot be ignored. The microphone loves him too and note that he brings his voice down to create intensity. The late Philip Seymour Hoffman was the closest we had (RIP) but he started out with good looks (the young PSH looked not unlike Matt Damon). Work has always been precarious for actors, you would have to have to be a very confident actor to try such a career now. And finding finance in Hollywood for a Laughton today would be fiendishly difficult. The good news? There are enough lovers of good art on this thread to start a reversal of this trend; I trust we're not alone!
So, shutoman, you have said everything and more that I wanted to impart about Laughton. I agree utterly in what you have said here. And well said, too.
Well, Ulysses, that's an aesthetic point over which we cannot establish objective grounds for a discussion. But - to adopt your point for argument - even if his charisma and talent were enough to make him beautiful he was not only physically unprepossessing but also treated his wife, Elsa Lanchester, appallingly. We're probably not that far away but in any event the closest I can come to Charles Laughton in modern times is Phliip Seymour Hoffman - and he was very pretty when he was younger. not so Laughton.
+Joyce Day He was fiendishly charismatic (see above) the camera loves him too; you just can't help looking at him. Sadly, however, we have no Laughtons now and I wonder if we will ever have one again. I am very resistant to a nostalgia argument (it's all worse than it was, etc) but I do think we've lost something. I'm just not sure what it is, but tolerance for the non-gorgeous seems to be a component :-)
I noted veteran character actors Edward Andrews and Paul Ford in this clip but had to check twice to find Don Murray. He's the guy listening intently to Edward Andrews in the first few frames of the clip.
Probably the best representation of how our Congress manages to pass (or stop) legislation in our country. If anyone thinks he can put laws on the books strictly by force of will...he has another thing coming.
It rarely makes a difference: not least because the UK does not recognise renunciation of its citizenship. No matter how hard you try, you cannot 'un-become' a British Citizen, although it may (I believe) be stripped from you.
Nicely said, and I must say, Olivier wasn't bad, but NOT nea as good as he's praised to be...dunno how that happened. Richard Harris (random choice in my head) was far better; by far and Laughton, well, he's my hero and my all-time fav with Brando. Laughton....KING! ;) (and I was born in the 80's)
juste un mot pour un acteur GENIAL et qui n'a jamais cabotiné , lui, Walter Pidgeon. Le rôle le plus important de ce film , et qu'il joue MAGISTRALEMENT ! bien sur, jamais d'oscar, alors que là je ne vois vraiment pas qui pouvait le meriter mieux que lui en 1962...
I’m from Wisconsin and have lived in the South since 1980, and I will say that doing an accurate “Southern “ accent is extremely difficult. I can’t say whether or not Laughton’s South Carolina accent is accurate or not, but it was pretty close. Oh, how I LOVE Charles Laughton…ever since I saw “The Big Clock!”
Since This Was Charles Laughtons Last Film, Did He Feel Sick Filming Or Did He Know That This Was Going To Be The Last Film Of His Great Career? I Await Your Answer.
I understand that Peter Lawford, president John F. Kennedy:s brother In Law, and the rest of the Kennedy family were not to happy his appearance this film. Any reason why? I await your answer.
You're saying the Kennedy family -- including Lawford himself -- were not _too_ happy with his being in this movie? I don't understand what you mean. JFK was delighted with such early '60s political movies as Advise and Consent, and 7 Days in May, with which his administration generously assisted.
@brianarbenz1329 One difference: Advise and Consent, unlike the other early 60s novels-turned-films, was written from a distinctly more anti-liberal perspective, despite the fact that Lawford's Lafe Smith was arguably a positive portrait of the senatorial JFK.
Not just how people thought -- homosexual activity between men was actually illegal in England until the Sexual Offences Act 1967 was passed to decriminalize it.
"Is our storehouse of brain power so impoverished that for this office, which can affect the destiny of our nation and the world, there is no other man but Joseph Robinette Biden, I find that hard and even possible to believe." Ah, the 1960s. Such an innocent time....
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Mr Charles Laughton is my favourite actor. He was astoundingly brilliant. John Sivorn.
Such a brilliant movie, based on a brilliant book. The black and white is also one of the reasons that it is superb, because it takes away the bells and whistles and focuses us on the words, the performances, the facial movements, the gestures. This is a sublime viewing experience and every schoolchild should be exposed to it. When I taught a humanities class in high school I always made sure to screen the film for my students, and they always, boy or girl, came away impressed.
In many respects this, Laughton's last movie role, was his greatest performance. Much as I abominate his character's principles (or lack of them) Laughton's brilliant portrayal of a character whom he must also have despised is truly brilliant. Indeed, so impressed was I that I procured and read the novel on which this film was based.
Another brilliant performance by one of the very greatest.
The movie caused me to read the book when I was in the 8th grade. Mr. Laughton was brilliant in this film. Why can't movies be made like this today?
An amazing actor and don't forget his direction of "Night of the Hunter".
Just brilliant, like every other role he played.
I do declare he was a fine actor was Charles Laughton ... yes siree ... RIP !!!!
He was a genius with everything he touched !
Find his 'I Claudius' on You Tube. The greatest movie never made. It's Amazing!
The last movie Charles Laughton made,and as always a great job.
Probably Charles Laughton's greatest performance.. a superb adaptation of Allen Drury's Cold War masterpiece about political honor. and pride in Washington DC.
The last time I witnessed such a moving performance was that of James Stewart in the 1939 Frank Capra Classic "Mr. Smith goes to Washington"
Joseph Harder 2 years ago: "Political honor and pride"? Are we talking about the same film, ADVISE AND CONSENT? It was much more about political pragmatism and LGBTQ paranoia, about the super-patriot and the simply stupid, about cynical conflation of socialism with communism and lastly. the pitiful few dedicated politicians who maintain the creaking and wheezing machinery in motion while emitting a semblance of stability.
The USA citizen would not be blamed for yearning after those halcyon days when confronted with the obscene spectacle presented to him/her by the current zoo.
@@warrenglover6633 Among other things, The President is too proud to admit that he made a mistake and to let the honorable Mr. Leffingwell withdraw. We did not see different films; we simply had different interpretations. BTW, my FULL comment in my Facebook group, or. to be precise the opening paragraph was: "Charles Laughton's, last, crowning, performance as the extremely eloquent-and extremely Machiavellian Conservative Democrat senator from the "great state Of South Carolina", Seabright, "Seab" Cooley in Otto Preminger's never fully appreciated adaptation of Allen Drury's all-time best selling Cold War masterpiece about pride, loyalty, sex, ambition and patriotism in Washington D.C, Advise And Consent.
Laughton was a God of an actor. What great timing and phrasology. What a gift he was to the thespian world.
This great actor also played Quasimodo!
And Janoth in _The Big Clock!_
Captain Bligh...Mutiny on the Bounty...1935
And Henry VIII (twice), Nero, Claudius, Inspector Javert, Inspector Maigret, Captain Kidd (twice), Rembrandt, Sir Simon de Canterville, Galileo, King Herod, Henry Hobson, Sir Wilfred Robarts, Sempronius Gracchus, and many more unforgettable characters.
One of the greatest actors.
With one of the worst southern accents EVER
@@rexrexford No. It's good.
Charles Laughton best actor
I'm an Edward Andrews fanatic (He is the household face who has played in every movie and TV series, but whose identity is a mystery to the general public. He plays the distinguished senior Senator Knox from Illinois).
I am an Edward Andrews fanatic to infinity and beyond. It is my dream for someone to write a biography about him I would do it myself but am so limited.
@@nelliethursday1812Edward Andrew's was in the movie with Barbara Eden and Tony Randall in 1964 The Brass Bottle and a few years later in 1969 in an episode of I Dream of Jeannie with Barbara Eden again! 😊
Liked him in You Drive - Twilight Zone
It would be a notable feather in the cap of any RUclips entrepreneur if he/she could present us with a good to fair print of the entire ADVISE AND CONSENT for free viewing. I have searched in vain since YT began. I much admire Laughton as an actor. He commands the audience's attention with a sureness and deftness of effort that marks a true professional. His last role on the screen was probably his best. But was there ever a time and a role when it was not thus?
It is with some trepidation then that I admit to being pleasantly surprised how well Sir Ralph Richardson and Deborah Kerr reprised the roles played by Charles and Elsa. Both versions are excellent entertainment. Both reward a rapt viewing.
Such a magnificent Actor..❤
Such an appropriate clip for present times...
ENGLISHMAN, USING A SOUTHERN ACCENT!!!!!!!!! BRlLLANT!!!!! THANKS 100MILL UPLOADER.
A Yorkshireman, no less!
To my Yankee ears, his Dixie accent is flawless.
@@Viracocha88 It's AWFUL
Kind of like Vivien Leigh in Gone With The Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire...
Best actor of all time
quite possibly
I'll have to see the movie, and listened to the audio version of the book it's based on. Besides Laughton, others I recognize, by name, at least, are Betty White, Henry Fonda, and Burgess Meredith.
Thanks for uploading! An extremely fine actor - made Olivier look like an amateur.
2 things you never want to know how they are made, sausage and laws.
I fell in love with Don Murray after seeing him exercising wearing long johns in "Bus Stop" (1956).😋
The Greatest Actor Ever!
I to very much admire Charles Laughton and I find his greatest performance ever on the silver screen to be Abbott and Costello meet captain Kidd. Lou teaches Charles Laughton how to do a double take And both he and Bud Abbott became quite good friends of Charles Laughton.
Could someone please upload the scene where Brig's wife hugs him and says she'll never leave him no matter what he's done? That has to be one of the most heart wrenching scenes in the world of cinema.
We could never have actors like Laughton in Hollywood today. Charles Laughton was never a good-looking man. Almost from birth he appears to have been pudgy, short and - frankly - ugly. But the camera loves him and he cannot be ignored. The microphone loves him too and note that he brings his voice down to create intensity. The late Philip Seymour Hoffman was the closest we had (RIP) but he started out with good looks (the young PSH looked not unlike Matt Damon). Work has always been precarious for actors, you would have to have to be a very confident actor to try such a career now. And finding finance in Hollywood for a Laughton today would be fiendishly difficult. The good news? There are enough lovers of good art on this thread to start a reversal of this trend; I trust we're not alone!
So, shutoman, you have said everything and more that I wanted to impart about Laughton. I agree utterly in what you have said here. And well said, too.
Rick Coram Thank you, Rick. I'm honoured.
Well, Ulysses, that's an aesthetic point over which we cannot establish objective grounds for a discussion. But - to adopt your point for argument - even if his charisma and talent were enough to make him beautiful he was not only physically unprepossessing but also treated his wife, Elsa Lanchester, appallingly. We're probably not that far away but in any event the closest I can come to Charles Laughton in modern times is Phliip Seymour Hoffman - and he was very pretty when he was younger. not so Laughton.
+Ulysses61 I found Laughton with his great eyes, voice, and intensity to be quite attractive despite lacking what the world considers good looks.
+Joyce Day He was fiendishly charismatic (see above) the camera loves him too; you just can't help looking at him. Sadly, however, we have no Laughtons now and I wonder if we will ever have one again. I am very resistant to a nostalgia argument (it's all worse than it was, etc) but I do think we've lost something. I'm just not sure what it is, but tolerance for the non-gorgeous seems to be a component :-)
He has been reincarnated in the person of Anthony Hopkins. Both most memorable.
Superb actor
Boy he gave it his all once again much frailer here
Yes, great man, loved his craft
I noted veteran character actors Edward Andrews and Paul Ford in this clip but had to check twice to find Don Murray. He's the guy listening intently to Edward Andrews in the first few frames of the clip.
CL was the greatest of all!
Probably the best representation of how our Congress manages to pass (or stop) legislation in our country. If anyone thinks he can put laws on the books strictly by force of will...he has another thing coming.
Thanks for the upload!
Brilliant Actor .....those days of Shakespeare actors are far disappearing
Chillingly about the present
another reason laughton may not of been knighted.was because the british establishment would not have liked the fact he had became a USA citizen.
It rarely makes a difference: not least because the UK does not recognise renunciation of its citizenship. No matter how hard you try, you cannot 'un-become' a British Citizen, although it may (I believe) be stripped from you.
Nicely said, and I must say, Olivier wasn't bad, but NOT nea as good as he's praised to be...dunno how that happened. Richard Harris (random choice in my head) was far better; by far and Laughton, well, he's my hero and my all-time fav with Brando. Laughton....KING! ;)
(and I was born in the 80's)
Love Don Murray
juste un mot pour un acteur GENIAL et qui n'a jamais cabotiné , lui, Walter Pidgeon. Le rôle le plus important de ce film , et qu'il joue MAGISTRALEMENT ! bien sur, jamais d'oscar, alors que là je ne vois vraiment pas qui pouvait le meriter mieux que lui en 1962...
Charles Laughton was dissatisfied with his southern accent.
Can’t blame him.
I wonder why? It's dead-on accurate.
Some people argue that English people can do American accents better than Americans can do English accents.
I’m from Wisconsin and have lived in the South since 1980, and I will say that doing an accurate “Southern “ accent is extremely difficult. I can’t say whether or not Laughton’s South Carolina accent is accurate or not, but it was pretty close. Oh, how I LOVE Charles Laughton…ever since I saw “The Big Clock!”
I love Charles' performance as the bigoted Southern Senator in this movie version of the Broadway play"Advise & Consent"..his last film role.
Brilliant!
Charles Laughton just described the foreign and domestic policies of today's liberals in 1962. He put on a very accurate Southern accent.
Genius
Nice info
Anyone still picking up some English in his accent?
Upper Class Southerners have always tried to effect some British in their "Accent"
@@jamesalexander5623
Very true...that's because they were closet in direct line..
Since This Was Charles Laughtons Last Film, Did He Feel Sick Filming Or Did He Know That This Was Going To Be The Last Film Of His Great Career? I Await Your Answer.
Yes, he knew he had cancer during the filming.
@@HolgerRuneFan Thank you for reply.He showed remarkable courage during filming. Do you agree?
I understand that Peter Lawford, president John F. Kennedy:s brother In Law, and the rest of the Kennedy family were not to happy his appearance this film. Any reason why? I await your answer.
You're saying the Kennedy family -- including Lawford himself -- were not _too_ happy with his being in this movie? I don't understand what you mean. JFK was delighted with such early '60s political movies as Advise and Consent, and 7 Days in May, with which his administration generously assisted.
@brianarbenz1329 One difference: Advise and Consent, unlike the other early 60s novels-turned-films, was written from a distinctly more anti-liberal perspective, despite the fact that Lawford's Lafe Smith was arguably a positive portrait of the senatorial JFK.
Why wasn't he knighted?
Probably because he was known to be gay.
alrite, yup
mickshaw555 That's how they thought in the 1950s.
Not just how people thought -- homosexual activity between men was actually illegal in England until the Sexual Offences Act 1967 was passed to decriminalize it.
Probably because he moved to America
A cast of thousands, but a storyline of kee-rap.
Really? Why pray tell,do you say it's no good?
I like this drama...I'm interested why you don't(??)
I agree with Carl. Any idea how controversial showing a gay bar on a major Hollywood film was in the late 50s and early 60s
"Is our storehouse of brain power so impoverished that for this office, which can affect the destiny of our nation and the world, there is no other man but Joseph Robinette Biden, I find that hard and even possible to believe." Ah, the 1960s. Such an innocent time....