When we saw this film last week and both my wife and I were looking forward to the scene in which Charles Laughton filibusters for hours on end in the Senate to defeat a bill. Obviously our memories were playing tricks on us and it was neither 'Advise and Consent' nor Charles Laughton!
Can anyone give me a line on what film we were thinking of please?
I think there was a scene in the James Stewart film "Mr Smith goes to Washington". Also in season 2.17 of "The West Wing", Senator Stackhouse rambles on until the President sends in some support to help him out. I can't remember the plot exactly but I think it was to halt some legislation that would have affected his grandson who was ill, so he read out cooking recipes.
shareI have the same (false) memory. Perhaps we are both thinking of Charles Laughton's wonderful courtroom speeches in "Witness for the Prosecution?"
shareHere's a question. Did you ever read the sequel to the novel Advise and Consent? It's called A Shade of Difference. In it, Senator Seabright J. Cooley (Laughton's character) does deliver a very long filibuster.
That book is followed by Capable of Honor & Preserve and Protect. That last novel is followed by two other based on alternate outcomes of that book's end. Those are called Come Nineveh, Come Tyre & The Promise of Joy.
All feature some of the same characters (& new ones) in A&C.