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Robert Rossen – All the King’s Men (1949)

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All the King’s Men is a 1949 drama film based on the Robert Penn Warren novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Rossen and starred Broderick Crawford in the role of Willie Stark.

Jack Burden is a newspaper reporter who first hears of Willie Stark when his editor sends him to Kanoma County to cover the man. What’s special about this nobody running for county treasurer? He’s supposedly an honest man. Burden discovers this to be true when he sees Stark delivering a speech and having his son pass out handbills, while the local politicians do their best to intimidate him. Willie Stark is honest and brave. He’s also a know-nothing hick whose schoolteacher wife has given him what little education he has. Stark loses the race for treasurer, but later makes his way through law school, becoming an idealistic attorney who fights for what is good. Someone in the governor’s employ remembers Stark when the governor needs a patsy to run against him and split the vote of his rival. The fat cats underestimate Stark; but Jack Burden, Stark’s biggest supporter, overestimates the man’s idealism. To get where he wants to go, Willie Stark is willing to crack a few eggs – which include his tough-talking assistant, Sadie Burke; Jack’s poised and elegant fiancée, Anne Stanton; and even Jack Burden himself.
– Written by J. Spurlin @ IMDB



Rossen originally offered the starring role to John Wayne, who found the proposed film script unpatriotic and indignantly refused the part. Crawford, who eventually took the role, won the 1949 Academy Award for Best Actor, beating out Wayne, who had been nominated for his role in Sands of Iwo Jima.


All the King’s Men was the 36th film to get more than six Academy Awards nominations. American Film Institute
AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies—Nominated
AFI’s 100 Years…100 Heroes and Villains:
Willie Stark—Nominated Villain
AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)—NominatedIt won three Academy Awards – Best Motion Picture, Best Actor (Broderick Crawford), Best Supporting Actress (Mercedes McCambridge)



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One Comment

  1. “Unpatriotic”… Possibly one of the dumbest words ever. The notion that every film should somehow be “patriotic” shows what a fool Wayne was.

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