One of the better of Otto Preminger's sprawling adaptations of big, fat, multi-character, best-selling novels, this one Allen Drury's melodramatic civics lesson on cut-throat politics in D.C. The large cast -- Fonda, Laughton, Pidgeon, Don Murray, George Grizzard, Burgess Meredith, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney (a comeback role for the star of Preminger's Laura et al.), Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres -- could not exactly be called all-star, and it contains more than a couple of grandstanders. The scene in the gay bar is something of a landmark in mainstream cinema. Preminger's progressivism always strove to make a splash. (1962) — Duncan Shepherd
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