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All the King's Men (1950)
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Writer-director Robert Rossen and character actors Broderick Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge (in her film debut) took home Oscars (for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actress, respectively) for this excellent adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Crawford stars as Willie Stark, a charismatic populist Southern politician (inspired by the real Louisiana Governor Huey Long) who belies his "man of the people" roots as he ruthlessly maneuvers, lies, and deals his way into the halls of power. John Ireland is his right-hand man, Jack Burden, a newsman turned political flack who hangs on to Stark's early...
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All the King's Men Movie Review by AJ  (4/27/2006) |
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Based on Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (which also inspired the Sean Penn-starring version due out later this year), All the King's Men is a sharp, disturbing, and at times hypnotically fascinating look at the grease between the cogs of America's political machine. As more and more of the honesty and...
(complete All the King's Men review by AJ)
Robert Rossen (The Hustler) had better luck with the story of Louisiana's Governor Huey Long as he managed to capture every Best Director award he was nominated for except the Oscar.
The picture did win the Best Picture Award for my birth year, and the acting awards went to Broderick Crawford (Governor Stark/Long) and...
(complete All the King's Men review by Movie Addict)
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