Average Rating: 7.9/10
Reviews Counted: 28
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 1
Broderick Crawford is spellbinding as politician Willie Stark in director Robert Rossen's adaptation of the Robert Penn Warren novel about the corrosive effects of power on the human soul.
Average Rating: N/A
Critic Reviews: 3
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 1
Broderick Crawford is spellbinding as politician Willie Stark in director Robert Rossen's adaptation of the Robert Penn Warren novel about the corrosive effects of power on the human soul.
liked it
Average Rating: 3.7/5
User Ratings: 4,180
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men is a roman à clef inspired by the career of Louisiana governor Huey Long. Broderick Crawford won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Willie Stark, a backwoods Southern lawyer who wins the hearts of his constituents by bucking the corrupt state government. Journalist Jack Burden (John Ireland) is impressed by Willie's seeming sincerity, and aids Stark on the road to political power. Once he's reached the
Nov 8, 1949 Wide
Jun 5, 2001
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
All Critics (28) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (31) | Rotten (2) | DVD (17)
It is a film that vividly impresses, with dramatic sureness the chicanery of politics as have been practiced in the past and may crop up again.
Today, its realism seems bland, its moralizing forced.
Mr. Rossen has assembled in this starkly unprettified film a piece of pictorial journalism that is remarkable for its brilliant parts.
Details the rise and fall of a Southern politician
The rather heavy-handed movie, which also gained the Best Picture Oscar, benefited from bull-necked Crawford's hard-hitting performance and the effective blend of location photography and studio work.
A fine adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer novel.
Extras on the disc include the movie trailer and a 'sneak peek' at its less impressive 2006 remake.
Smart, fascinating and horrifying, All the King's Men is an example of late 1940s filmmaking at its best.
A savage indictment of the system.
While [Crawford's] full-bodied performance still holds up nearly six decades later, the rest of Robert Rossen's Best Picture winner has lost a good deal of its fierce luster.
Broderick Crawford gives an outstanding performance as the corrupt politician Willie Stark.
It's inspired by the career of populist Louisiana governor (1928-32) and Democratic U.S. Senator (1932-35) Huey Long.
Stark is a work of art; a walking id whose momentum surges like the adrenaline that busts through his veins as he delivers his fist-pumping speeches.
A character piece, unveiled through excellent performances that divulge how an ounce of power can unravel one's entire life, make enemies out of friends and friends out of enemies.
Columbia's new DVD of the 1949 Oscar-winner is timed for the Sep 22 release of the 2006 remake, and thus includes sneak preview, theatrical trailer, and interviews with Sean Penn, Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, and rest of cast
Based on the Pulitzer-prize winning novel, Robert Rossen's film is a grimly realistic study of the corrutive nature of personal and poltical power via the tumultuous career of Senator Hughey Stark.
Politics has never been something that really sparks my interest very often (if at all), so to make something that involves politics in a big way that gets my The Long stand in is Willie Stark who is a pure populist through and through. He fights for the little guy in an honest way, and the film follows the typical
November 14, 2011Super Reviewer
An enjoyable classic movie full of deception and corruption.
May 18, 2008Super Reviewer
| 35% | The Hangover Part II |
| 25% | Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Par... |
| 81% | Kung Fu Panda 2 |
| 44% | Cowboys & Aliens |
| 83% | Rise of the Planet of the Apes |
| 25% | Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Par... |
| 88% | Lady and the Tramp |
| 69% | A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas |
| 21% | Fireflies in the Garden |
| 45% | The Rebound |
Journey 2 Not Worth the Trip
What are his 10 best movies ever?
See the all-new action-packed trailer!
Five new Marvelous pictures