The Best Man (1964)
The Best Man (1964)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 720x576 | 6100 kbps | 4.2Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:42:00 | USA | Drama
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 720x576 | 6100 kbps | 4.2Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:42:00 | USA | Drama
The two front runners for their party's Presidential nomination, one principled and the other ruthless, vie for the ex-President's endorsement.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams, Margaret Leighton, Shelley Berman, Lee Tracy, Ann Sothern, Gene Raymond, Kevin McCarthy, Mahalia Jackson, Howard K. Smith, John Henry Faulk, Richard Arlen, Penny Singleton, George Kirgo, George Furth, Ann Newman-Mantee, Mary Lawrence, H.E. West, Michael MacDonald, William R. Ebersol, Natalie Masters, Marie Blake, Bill Stout, Tyler McVey, Sherwood Keith, Billy Beck, Jack Daly, Sam Harris, William Henry
The Best Man (1964)
The Best Man (1964)
The Best Man takes place at a national convention where the party's nominee is in doubt. The party is not named, but we know that it is the party that already controls the White House. President Art Hockstader (Lee Tracy) is very much interested in which of the five men running will follow him as President. The favorite is Bill Russell (Henry Fonda), the former Secretary of State. Russell comes across as an "egg head" in the Adlai Stevenson mold and while he sounds like a liberal we are told he is an American at heart. However, his chief rival is Senator Joe Cantwell (Cliff Robertson), a ruthless opportunist who rose to national prominence by holding hearings in which he went after Communists. Cantwell gets his hands on information that can sink Russell's candidacy and tries to use it to blackmail his opponent into withdrawing from the race, justifying his illegal activities as being what is good for the country. Russell tries to fight fire with fire, coming up with some devastating personal information about Cantwell, but using it would mean sinking to Cantwell's level, and Russell does not know if he can stomach doing that, even for the highest office in the land.
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The Best Man (1964)
The Best Man (1964)
