Home

All the King's Men (1949) [NR]

Featuring:
Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru

Written by:
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Rossen

Directed by:
Robert Rossen


Release Date:
November 16, 1949

Original Title:
All the King's Men

Alternate Titles:
All the King's Men
El político
国王的弄臣
모두가 왕의 부하들

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Columbia Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AT: 12  ES: A  GB: U  GR: 13  KR: 12  NL: 12  SE: 15  US: NR 

Runtime: 109

He Might Have Been A Pretty Good Guy . . . If Too Much Power . . . And Women . . . Hadn't Gone To his Head !

Overview from TheMovieDB

A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Overview from Open Movies

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.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Video

Click each video panel to show or hide.

Trailer

Featurette

Although TheMovieDB might provide a key to a YouTube video, there is no guarantee that the video might be present at YouTube.

Rankings and Honors

All the King's Men (1949) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes 97%
Awards Won: Won 3 Oscars. 14 wins & 8 nominations total

Performers

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

Production

Art Direction:
Sturges Carne

Assistant Director:
Sam Nelson

Assistant Editor:
Frank P. Keller

Camera Operator:
Gert Andersen

Costume Design:
Jean Louis

Director:
Robert Rossen

Director of Photography:
Burnett Guffey

Editor:
Al Clark

Editorial Consultant:
Robert Parrish

Editorial Services:
Donald W. Starling

First Assistant Camera:
Emil Oster

Hairstylist:
Helen Hunt

Makeup Artist:
Robert J. Schiffer
Clay Campbell

Music Director:
Morris Stoloff

Novel:
Robert Penn Warren

Orchestrator:
Joseph Nussbaum

Original Music Composer:
Louis Gruenberg

Producer:
Robert Rossen

Producer's Assistant:
Shirley Miller

Screenplay:
Robert Rossen

Script Supervisor:
Donna M. Norridge

Second Unit:
Don Siegel

Second Unit Director:
Don Siegel

Set Decoration:
Louis Diage

Sound Engineer:
Frank Goodwin

Still Photographer:
Irving Lippman

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.