Film, Video Web Page All the king's men

Title

• All the king's men

Summary

• Willie Stark, a dynamic backwoods lawyer, batters his way into the governor's mansion with the help of his hard-boiled secretary, Sadie Burke, and reporter Jack Burden. Once elected, Willie uses his unprincipled charm to become a brutal dictator, but his unquenchable thirst for power threatens to topple the monarch and his kingdom.

Names

• Rossen, Robert, 1908-1966, screenwriter, film director, film producer.
• Crawford, Broderick, 1911-1986, actor.
• Dru, Joanne, 1923-1996, actor.
• Ireland, John, 1914-1992, actor.
• Derek, John, 1926-1998, actor.
• McCambridge, Mercedes, actor.
• Guffey, Burnett director of photography.
• Gruenberg, Louis, 1884-1964, composer (expression)
• Stoloff, Morris, 1898-1980, musical director.
• Clark, Al, 1902-1971, editor of moving image work.
• Parrish, Robert, editor of moving image work.
• Carne, Sturges, 1899-1965, art director.
• Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989.

Created / Published

• United States : Columbia Pictures, 1949 ; United States : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, [1986?]

Headings

• -  Political corruption--Drama
• -  Ambition--Drama
• -  Idealism--Drama
• -  Populism--Drama
• -  Governors--Southern States--Drama
• -  Journalists--Drama

Genre

• Political films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Videodiscs

Notes

• -  Based on the novel by Robert Penn Warren.
• -  Copyright notice on videodisc jacket: 1986.
• -  Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek, Mercedes McCambridge.
• -  Director of photography, Burnett Guffey ; original music by Louis Gruenberg ; musical director, Morris Stoloff ; editor, Al Clark ; art direction, Sturges Carne.
• -  Possible videodisc reissue date from copyright notice on videodisc label for videodisc packaging artwork and summary.
• -  Summary taken from videodisc jacket.
• -  On videodisc jacket: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video 30588.
• -  LC also holds a DVD viewing copy and a 35 mm. print of this title.
• -  This film was selected for the National Film Registry.
• -  Academy Award, Best Picture, 1949.
• -  Not viewed; not compared with original 35 mm. for content.
• -  Sources used: videodisc jacket and label; Catalog of copyright entries, motion pictures, 1950-1959, p. 11; Internet movie database, June 19, 2017; Wikipedia WWW site, viewed June 19, 2017; Variety, November 4, 1949, p. 3, p. 6, viewed online at Variety.com, June 19, 2017.

Medium

• viewing copy 1 videodisc of 1 (optical) (ca. 110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 12 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

• DAA 0081 (viewing copy)

Source Collection

• LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)

Library of Congress Control Number

• 96524486

Online Format

• web page
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/96524486

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• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record