John Ireland

Broderick Crawford

Joanne Dru

John Derek

Mercedes McCambridge

Shepperd Strudwick

Ralph Dumke

Anne Seymour

Katherine Warren

Raymond Greenleaf

Walter Burke

Will Wright

Grandon Rhodes

Marshall Bradford

Chet Brandenburg

Wheaton Chambers

Stephen Chase

Tom Coleman

James Conaty

Roy Darmour

Earle S. Dewey

King Donovan

Robert Filmer

Paul Ford

Dick Gordon

William E. Green

Charles Haefeli

Frank Hagney

Richard Hale

Bert Hanlon

Judd Holdren

Robert Karnes

Kenner G. Kemp

Donald Kerr

Nolan Leary

Wilbur Mack

Louis Mason

Paul Maxey

Frank McLure

Walter Merrill

Harold Miller

John "Skins" Miller

Pat O'Malley

Jeffrey Sayre

Charles Sherlock

Ray Spiker

Helene Stanley

Larry Steers

Houseley Stevenson

Charles Sullivan

William Tannen

Phil Tully

Glen Walters

Frank Wilcox

Harry Wilson

Bill Wolfe

Al Wyatt Sr.

Sam Harris

Charles Ferguson

Richard Bartell

Mary Bear

William Bruce

Edwin Chandler

William Cottrell

Jack Deery

George Farmer

Tom Ferrandini

Ted French

Slim Gaut

John Giles

Avery Graves

Jimmie Horan

James Linn

H.C. Miller

Truett Myers

Frank O'Connor

Sammy Shack

Irving Smith

George Taylor

Al Thompson

Glen Thompson

A.C. Tillman

Reba Waterson

Robert Rossen

Louis Gruenberg

Burnett Guffey

Al Clark

Sturges Carne

Louis Diage

Clay Campbell

Helen Hunt

Robert J. Schiffer

Sam Nelson

Don Siegel

Frank Goodwin

Donald W. Starling

Frank P. Keller

Donna M. Norridge

Gert Andersen

Irving Lippman

Morris Stoloff

Joseph Nussbaum

Emil Oster

Robert Penn Warren

Robert Parrish

Shirley Miller

Jean Louis

Drama

All the King's Men

Columbia Pictures

United States of America

English

Honesty, integrity, corruption and murder! 

Willie Stark is an upstanding pillar of the community, when he is coaxed into standing in the local election he gets a thirst for politics. As he progresses through the political ranks he loses sight of the very things that he first stood for, with him, and all those associated with him getting muddier by the day.

Adapted by Robert Rossen (director and screenplay) from the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, All The King's Men is the story about the rise and fall of a rotten politician. Almost certainly based on Louisiana Governor, Huey Pierce Long, it's a towering piece of work that is as politically cynical as it is ego centrically human. Not merely just another film about "when good guys go bad", this picture serves notice to the many things that drives politics on, for better or worse. The role of the press is under scrutiny for example, and just how come simple things such as rallies can be staged by some conniving aide sitting at the back? All roads in this gritty piece are paved with suspicious looking stones, the very foundations of which have been murkily formed.

It's a testament to Rossen and his excellent cast that All The King's Men is still as potent today as it obviously was back at the tail end of the 40s. Every once in a while a similarly themed film will come our way, but few, if any, can boast the hard hitting realism that seams throughout Rossen's film. Helped by location shooting at run down Stockton in California, and boosted by a powerhouse performance from Broderick Crawford as Stark, this film most definitely is a hallmark in the political genre. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, it won three in the main categories, Best Actor (Crawford), Best Picture (rightly) and Best Supporting Actress (Mercedes McCambridge with an incredible debut performance). 9/10

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