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Are the men and women of Washington really like this?
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
Henry Fonda
Robert Leffingwell
Charles Laughton
Senator Seabright Cooley
Don Murray
Senator Brigham Anderson
Walter Pidgeon
Senate Majority Leader
Peter Lawford
Senator Lafe Smith
Gene Tierney
Dolly Harrison
Franchot Tone
The President
Lew Ayres
The Vice President
Burgess Meredith
Herbert Gelman
Eddie Hodges
Johnny Leffingwell
Paul Ford
Senator Stanley Danta
George Grizzard
Senator Fred van Ackerman
Inga Swenson
Ellen Anderson
Frank Sinatra
Self (voice)
Edward Andrews
Senator Orrin Knox
Paul McGrath
Hardiman Fletcher
Will Geer
Senate Minority Leader
Betty White
Senator Bessie Adams
Tom Helmore
British Ambassador
Paul Stevens
Louis Newborn
Russ Brown
Night Watchman Mike
Malcolm Atterbury
Senator Tom August
Michele Montau
Celestine Barre
Bill Quinn
Senator Paul Hendershot
Larry Tucker
Manuel
Sid Gould
Bartender
Eddie Baker
Senator (uncredited)
Roger Clark
Senator (uncredited)
Cay Forester
President's Secretary (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Senate Chamber Reporter (uncredited)
Al McGranary
Senator (uncredited)
Harold Miller
Senate Official (uncredited)
Sol Murgi
Senator (uncredited)
Walter Reed
Senate Staff Clerk (uncredited)
Leoda Richards
Senator (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre
Senate Staff Clerk (uncredited)
Bernard Sell
Senator (uncredited)
Stephen Soldi
Senate Gallery Spectator (uncredited)
Scoop Jackson
Drink Refuser (uncredited)
Sam Leavitt
Director of Photography
Otto Preminger
Director
Otto Preminger
Producer
Jerry Fielding
Original Music Composer
Frank Sinatra
Songs
Loring Mandel
Theatre Play
Testosterone: Volume Three
Luc ou la part des choses
The Shawshank Redemption
Once Upon a Time in America
Apocalypse Now
Metropolis
All About Eve
Amadeus
Rebecca
Downfall
Brokeback Mountain
All Quiet on the Western Front
Mystic River
Billy Elliot
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
A Few Good Men
The Name of the Rose
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Experiment
Scarface
Bad Education
Jackie Brown
Murder She Said
Othello
The Blue Angel
The Outsiders
Contempt
The Tin Drum
Chocolat
Quarters
Wag the Dog
Paradise Now
The Moonraker
Walk on Water
Oliver Twist
The Fortress
Absolute Power
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
To Die For
Crash
Sleepless
Dyketactics
Dear Boys
At Home
Bringing Him Back
Green Light
Mixed Christmas
Mistr a Markétka
7 Miles Out
Counting Miracles
Melissa
Happy Gypsies
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
Je ne suis pas comme ça
Prayers for Bobby
The Greatest Showman
Hamilton
tick, tick... BOOM!
Synecdoche, New York
August Rush
Sing Sing
If I Stay
The Butler
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Les Misérables
Official Secrets
Milk
The Last Hurrah
Speak
A Complete Unknown
Boy Erased
Newsies
Worth
All the Way
The Giver
Cradle Will Rock
Beyond the Sea
Sleuth
Wonderstruck
The Detective
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