Henry Fonda, Charles Laughten
Political melodrama adapted from Allen Drury's novel. Great cast does a good job presenting a (for the time) more realistic portrait of senatorial shenanigans centering on the nomination of a controversial man for secretary of state.
Film was a step up from the nonsense peddled by Frank Capra in the 30's but still pales next to the extreme cynicism of the recent House of Cards. There is no mention in the film about the money-managers who actually pull the strings of these puppets: all their arguments focus on principle...the way the citizenry hoped and believed it actually worked. They were wrong. The rerality was more corrupt than most gauged at the time.
Still, it was fun watching these consummate actors wrestle some semblance of truth from this material. Laughten's last film and for him a doozy.
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