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Advise & Consent

1962 US political drama film by Otto Preminger

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
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Advise & Consent is a 1962 American political drama film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Advise and Consent by Allen Drury, published in 1959. It was adapted for the screen by Wendell Mayes and was directed by Otto Preminger. The film, set in Washington, D.C., follows the nomination process of a man who commits perjury in confirmation hearings for his nomination as Secretary of State.

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The public source identifies “Advise & Consent” as 1962 US political drama film by Otto Preminger. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Advise, Consent and political.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962, 1959—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Advise, Consent and political providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1962 and 1959.

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This entry incorporates text from “Advise & Consent” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.