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.
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02/19/08
All the King's Men (1949)
96 %
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Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 26
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Consensus: 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.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Broderick Crawford stands out in this fine drama about the rise and fall of a corrupt southern governor who promises his way to power. Crawford portrays Willie Stark, who, once he is elected, finds that his vanity and power lust prove to be... [More]
Starring: Broderick Crawford, Mercedes McCambridge, John Ireland, John Derek
Director: Robert Rossen
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Reviews for All the King's Men
Top Critic 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.
02/19/08
Smart, fascinating and horrifying, All the King's Men is an example of late 1940s filmmaking at its best.
05/15/07
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.
01/17/07
Top Critic Broderick Crawford gives an outstanding performance as the corrupt politician Willie Stark.
10/31/06
It's inspired by the career of populist Louisiana governor (1928-32) and Democratic U.S. Senator (1932-35) Huey Long.
09/25/06
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.
09/24/06
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.
07/22/05
Broderick Crawford is no Orson Welles, but this meditation on the underbelly of American politics is at least in the same league as Citizen Kane.
04/11/04
Mr. Rossen has assembled in this starkly unprettified film a piece of pictorial journalism that is remarkable for its brilliant parts.
05/20/03
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