Wow, never heard of it, gets a 7.8 viewer rating on iMDB.com, which is very high. Thanks, I will definitely find and watch. I liked the movie quote from this first paragraph from the New York Times review (link via imdb):
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"TOWARD the end of the sassy, stinging, picture that Otto Preminger has made out of Allen Drury’s best-selling novel about Washington, “Advise and Consent,” the majority leader of the United States Senate snaps at one of his Senate confreres who has pulled a vicious trick on the pretext of being patriotic, “Fortunately, this country is able to survive patriots like you.”
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So thanks for the tip, and here’s to hoping that’s still the case.