I was only 11 years old when I fell in love with Don Murrary during his naked bathtub scene in Bus Stop in 1956. He was the most beautiful perfect male I had ever seen on screen. I will always remember Don doing sexy sit-ups in clingy long johns so it is indeed ironic and delightful seeing Don in Advise & Consent playing the closeted homosexual husband - a painful role I would later assume as an adult in real life. Don is boyishly cute as ever and is the only reason I revisit this fine film again and again. I also love the shots of vintage Washington...especially the classic cars, wireless streetcars and buffalo statues on the Q Street bridge where I jog.
I dislike Charles Laughton as the senator from South Carolina as much as I dislike Strom Thurmond, the real racist and persecutor of African-Americans.
I dislike Charles Laughton as the senator from South Carolina as much as I dislike Strom Thurmond, the real racist and persecutor of African-Americans.