All the King's Men is a 1949 American film noir written, produced, and directed by Robert Rossen. It is based on the 1946 Robert Penn Warren novel of the same name. The film stars Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, and Joanne Dru. The plot focuses on the rise and fall of the ambitious and ruthless politician, Willie Stark (Crawford) in the American South. Though a fictional character, Stark strongly resembles Louisiana governor Huey Long. The movie won three Academy Awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture, the award for Best Actor, which went to Broderick Crawford, and the award for Best Supporting Actress, won by Mercedes McCambridge.
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All the King's Men (1949 film)
All the King's Men (1949 film) | Introduction
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The story of the rise of politician Willie Stark from a rural county seat to the governor's mansion is depicted in the film. He goes into politics, railing against the corruptly run county government, but loses his race for county treasurer, in the face of unfair obstacles placed by the local machine. Stark teaches himself law, and as a lawyer, continues to fight the local establishment, championing the local people and gaining popularity. He eventually rises to become a candidate for governor, narrowly losing his first race, then winning on his second attempt. Along the way he loses his innocence and becomes as corrupt as the politicians he once fought against.
All the King's Men (1949 film) | Plot
Elected as a U.S. Senator, he was assassinated in 1935. The film co-stars Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Patricia Clarkson and Jackie Earle Haley.
All the King's Men (2006 film) | Introduction
Given a meaty part, his histrionic bent wraps it up for a great personal success adding much to the many worthwhile aspects of the drama."
All the King's Men (1949 film) | Critical response
Based on Robert Penn Warren's 1946 novel, the production depicts the political rise of Willie Stark as he becomes governor and runs for the U.S. Senate.
All the King's Men (Kraft Television Theatre) | Plot
All the King's Men is a 1949 American film noir written, produced, and directed by Robert Rossen. It is based on the 1946 Robert Penn Warren novel of the same name. The film stars Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, and Joanne Dru. The plot focuses on the rise and fall of the ambitious and ruthless politician, Willie Stark (Crawford) in the American South. Though a fictional character, Stark strongly resembles Louisiana governor Huey Long. The movie won three Academy Awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture, the award for Best Actor, which went to Broderick Crawford, and the award for Best Supporting Actress, won by Mercedes McCambridge.
All the King's Men (1949 film) | Introduction
All The King's Men () is a 1971 Soviet TV mini-series, adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's novel of the same name.
All the King's Men (1971 film) | Introduction
David Jason won Best Actor in the TV Quick Awards for his performance. The rendition of the Norfolk dialect in the film was criticised by the Friends of Norfolk Dialect, formed to preserve and promote the proper recreation of it; "All the King's Men from Sandringham assembled proudly, then marched into the same old murky Mummerzet waters."
All the King's Men (1999 film) | Reception
All the King's Men is a 2006 American political drama film written, directed and produced by Steven Zaillian based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren. "All the King's Men" had previously been adapted into a Best Picture Oscar–winning film by writer-director Robert Rossen in 1949. The film narrates the rise to power & dramatic demise of the ruthless Governor Willie Stark (played by Sean Penn), taking his office in the American South. The fictional character is loosely based on the life of Louisiana governor Huey Long, in office between 1928 through 1932.
All the King's Men (2006 film) | Introduction
All the King's Men is a feature-length World War I television drama by the BBC starring David Jason, first broadcast on Remembrance Sunday, 14 November 1999. The film derives its title from a line in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme and is based on a 1992 book, "The Vanished Battalion" by the film's co-producer, Nigel McCrery.
All the King's Men (1999 film) | Introduction
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". The film was shot at various locations in California using local residents, something that was fairly unknown for Hollywood at the time. The old San Joaquin County courthouse in Stockton, built in 1898 and demolished about a dozen years after the film's release, was featured prominently. Paul Tatara, a film reviewer for CNN, describes the film as "one of those pictures that was saved in the editing".
All the King's Men (1949 film) | Production
When the film was released, it received wide acclaim. Film critic Bosley Crowther lauded the film and its direction in his review, writing, "Robert Rossen has written and directed, as well as personally produced, a rip-roaring film of the same title ... We have carefully used that descriptive as the tag for this new Columbia film because a quality of turbulence and vitality is the one that it most fully demonstrates ... In short, Mr. Rossen has assembled in this starkly unprettified film a piece of pictorial journalism that is remarkable for its brilliant parts." Critic William Brogdon, writing for "Variety" magazine, was also complimentary and praised Broderick Crawford's work, "As the rural Abe Lincoln, springing up from the soil to make himself a great man by using the opinionless, follow-the-leader instinct of the more common voter, Broderick Crawford does a standout performance.
All the King's Men (1949 film) | Critical response
"All the King's Men" received seven Academy Awards nominations, winning three.
All the King's Men (1949 film) | <a href="22nd%20Academy%20Awards">Academy Awards 1949</a>
All the King's Men was an American television play broadcast in two parts by NBC on May 14 and 21, 1958, as part of the television series, "Kraft Television Theatre". It was written by Don Mankiewicz based on the novel by Robert Penn Warren. Sidney Lumet was the director, and the cast was led by Neville Brand as Willie Stark and Maureen Stapleton as Sadie Burke.
All the King's Men (Kraft Television Theatre) | Introduction
Little is known of the actual production, but it received mixed reaction for the plausibility of its plot. The film is presumed lost.
A Dainty Politician | Introduction
The King offers to abdicate in penance for his faults, but Turgesius supports the restoration of his father, and announces his plan to marry Albina, Gotharus's virtuous widow. The serious action of the main plot is varied and counterpointed by comic material with the characters Sueno and Helga.
The Politician | Synopsis
Robert Penn Warren's 1946 American novel "All the King's Men" is the story of populist politician Willie Stark's rise to the position of governor and eventual fall, based on the career of the infamous Louisiana Senator and Governor Huey Long. It won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize and was twice made into a film in 1949 and 2006, the former winning the Academy Award for best motion picture. This was echoed in Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's book "All the President's Men", about the Watergate scandal, referring to the failure of the President's staff to repair the damage once the scandal had leaked out.
Humpty Dumpty | In film and literature
If I Were King is a 1938 American biographical and historical film starring Ronald Colman as medieval poet François Villon, and featuring Basil Rathbone and Frances Dee. It is based on the 1901 play and novel, both of the same name, by Justin Huntly McCarthy, and was directed by Frank Lloyd, with a screenplay adaptation by Preston Sturges.
If I Were King | Introduction
Besides the early verse play version "Proud Flesh", Robert Penn Warren has written several stage adaptations of "All the King's Men", one of them in close collaboration with famous German theatre director Erwin Piscator in 1947. The story was adapted for radio by NBC University Theatre and broadcast in January 1949. Wayne Morris played Jack Burden, with Paul Frees as Willie Stark. "All the King's Men", a movie made based on Warren's novel, was released several months later in 1949. The film won three Oscars that year: Best Picture, Best Actor (Broderick Crawford), and Best Supporting Actress (Mercedes McCambridge). The movie was also nominated for four more categories.
All the King's Men | Film and stage adaptations
The film was ready for a press screening at the end of November 1928 and it met with a mainly favourable reaction from the critics. One review commented that it was a likable satire of the world of politics which was so amusing that nobody could take offense at it. However members of the government rapidly became anxious about the film, not so much because of its satire which was actually more restrained than the successful stage play had been, but rather for its portrayal of the Parliament. Some politicians felt that their fictional equivalents were made up to resemble them rather too realistically; and in one scene a député falls asleep during a debate in the Chamber and dreams happily that the other members have all been transformed into ballerinas in tutus.
The New Gentlemen | Reception
Maureen Stapleton was nominated for an Emmy Award for best single performance by an actress. Stapleton and Neville Brand won the outstanding performance awards by an actress and actor at the 1958 Sylvania Television Awards. The production was also nominated as the outstanding telecast of 1958, losing out to "Little Moon of Alban".
All the King's Men (Kraft Television Theatre) | Reception
The movie's title matches that of the Russian translation of Warren's novel: "Вся королевская рать", literally "Whole King's Host". Just like in the source material, it's a line from the famous nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty", translated by Samuil Marshak.
All the King's Men (1971 film) | Title
In 2001, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant", and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. It is noted, however, for deviating significantly from the novel's storyline.
All the King's Men | Film and stage adaptations
The King (French: Le roi) is a 1936 French comedy film directed by Pierre Colombier and starring Victor Francen, Raimu and Gaby Morlay. King Jean IV of Cerdagne visits Paris to sign an important treaty where he becomes involved with an actress and a dishonest Senator. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier.
The King (1936 film) | Introduction
A list of American films released in 1949. "All the King's Men" won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
List of American films of 1949 | Introduction
Filming took place at Sandringham and Holkham Hall, on the North Norfolk Railway and elsewhere in Norfolk, with Andalucia in Spain serving as Gallipoli.
All the King's Men (1999 film) | Production
After the shooting was finished, Gutkovich as a result of behind-the-scenes intrigues was suspended from cutting. Cutting was entrusted to Naum Ardashnikov, who shot the film as a Director of photography.
All the King's Men (1971 film) | History
In 2001, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Academy Film Archive preserved "All the King's Men" in 2000. To date, it is the last Best Picture winner to be based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
All the King's Men (1949 film) | Accolades
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King Charles III (film) | Cast
Men and Noblemen () is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi and starring Vittorio De Sica.
Men and Noblemen | Introduction
However, at the last minute, director Huston had decided to cast someone whose appearance was more in keeping with natives of Kafiristan. "We've got to find an Arab princess somewhere", he is recounted as saying over dinner with Caine. At that same dinner, Caine's ethnic-Indian wife Shakira was present, so Huston and Caine persuaded her to take on the role.
The Man Who Would Be King (film) | Production
As he rises, Stark philanders and gets involved with many women, taking his PR man/journalist Jack Burden's own girlfriend, Anne Stanton, as his mistress. Stark's son Tommy drinks to deal with his feelings about his father, eventually crashes his car, injuring himself and killing his female passenger. When Stark bullies Tommy into playing a football game, Tommy becomes paralyzed after a brutal hit. Stark, who had always dealt with those who got in his way by any means, begins to see his world start to unravel and he discovers that not everyone can be bought off.
All the King's Men (1949 film) | Plot
He was reelected in 1937.
James Harold King | Introduction
The King's front man Dara (Adnan Jaffar) is caught between collecting the debt and handling the kidnapping while retaining fear and control over the city. Simultaneously, Eman (Sabeeka Imam), the daughter of wealthy industrialist and contender for the Prime Minister's seat, Akbar Chaudhary (Sajid Hassan), is trying to talk to her father about Ali, her beau. This proves to be difficult with the election coming closer by the day.
Jalaibee | Plot
Newman advised Huston that British actors should play the roles, and it was he who recommended Connery and Caine. Caine was very keen to appear especially after he was told that his part had originally been written for Humphrey Bogart, his favorite actor as a young man. Christopher Plummer was cast as Rudyard Kipling as a last minute replacement for Richard Burton. The role of Roxanne (the only listed female character in the movie) was originally slated for Tessa Dahl, the daughter of Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal. Dahl, excited to take the role, had prepared for the part by losing weight and capping her teeth.
The Man Who Would Be King (film) | Production
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Results of the 1947 New South Wales state election | King
The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 Technicolor adventure film adapted from the 1888 Rudyard Kipling novella of the same name. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Saeed Jaffrey, and Christopher Plummer as Kipling (giving a name to the novella's anonymous narrator). The film follows two rogue ex-soldiers, former non-commissioned officers in the British Army, who set off from late 19th-century British India in search of adventure and end up in faraway Kafiristan, where one is taken for a god and made their king.
The Man Who Would Be King (film) | Introduction
1948 election for the Italian Senate
Piero Mentasti | Electoral history
Robert Penn Warren's novel, published in Russian in 1968, immediately attracted the attention of the reading public. In Soviet cinematographic circles, the idea of film adaptation immediately arose. Application for the film adaptation almost simultaneously filed Stanislav Rostotsky from Mosfilm and Alexander Gutkovich in Gosteleradio BSSR. The question was decided in favor of the Belarusian version because of the personal involvement of the first Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist party of Belarus Pyotr Masherov. The film was shot by Belarusian television on the basis of the Mosfilm Studio. Most of the film was shot in Klaipeda and Palanga.
All the King's Men (1971 film) | History
As represented in the film, after becoming separated from other British troops and suffering heavy losses the remnants of the former Sandringham Company were taken prisoner by Ottoman soldiers and then massacred. One survivor wakes in a German military hospital and is told by a doctor that he was fortunate to have been found by German troops accompanying the Turkish forces. The scene in which prisoners are killed as they tried to surrender was criticised by both the Turkish Ambassador in London, and by a grandson of the central character, Captain Frank Beck, as being unsupported by evidence.
All the King's Men (1999 film) | Plot
All the King's Men is a 1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren. All the King's Men may also refer to:
All the King's Men (disambiguation) | Introduction
Silver, Alain and James Ursini (editors). "Film Noir: Reader 2". "All the King's Men" film noir themes discussed in essay, "Violence and the Bitch Goddess" by Stephen Farber, pgs. 54-55 (1974). Proscenium Publishers, Inc., New York (July 2003). Second Limelight Edition. .
All the King's Men (1949 film) | Bibliography
"The Man Who Would Be King" had been a pet project of John Huston's for many years after he had read the book as a child. Huston had planned to make the film since the 1950s, originally with Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart in the roles of Daniel and Peachy. He was unable to get the project off the ground before Bogart died in 1957; Gable followed in 1960. Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas were then approached to play the leads, followed by Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole. In the 1970s, Huston approached Robert Redford and Paul Newman for the roles.
The Man Who Would Be King (film) | Production
The Politician is a play published in 1655. The Politician may also refer to:
The Politician (disambiguation) | Introduction
With the death of Carmen Sevilla on October 11, 2020, Antonio Mayans is the last surviving primary cast member.
King of Kings (1961 film) | Cast
The Senator Was Indiscreet is a 1947 comedy film, the only movie directed by playwright, theatrical director/producer, humorist, and drama critic George S. Kaufman. Produced by Universal Pictures it starred William Powell as a dim-witted U.S. senator who decides to run for president, with Ella Raines as a reporter interested in the detailed diary he has kept about all the political misdeeds of his colleagues. Powell won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his performances in this film and in "Life with Father". The film also was known as Mr. Ashton Was Indiscreet (see photo).
The Senator Was Indiscreet | Introduction
The newly crowned King (Michael Kitchen) is displeased with the Conservative government led by Prime Minister Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson) and becomes involved in politics in a way that Urquhart finds unacceptable for a constitutional monarch. At their first meeting, the King expresses concern about Urquhart's social policies, which he argues have led to greater problems for urban areas. Tensions escalate when Urquhart moves his leftist Environment Secretary to a job in Strasbourg after rejecting his proposals to regenerate inner cities. The King's Assistant Press Secretary, Chloe Carmichael, leaks the outcome of the meeting to the press, which rankles Urquhart.
To Play the King | Plot
There have been notables films that have been labeled as political dramas such as "Thirteen Days". A famous literary political drama which later made the transition to film was Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men".
Political drama | Film
In 1920 he contested the 1920 Ilford by-election as a Labour Party candidate.
Joseph King (politician) | Electoral Results
King Arthur Was a Gentleman is a 1942 British, black-and-white, comedy, musical film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Arthur Askey. It was produced by Edward Black and Maurice Ostrer for Gainsborough Pictures.
King Arthur Was a Gentleman | Introduction
King of Women () is a 1923 German silent comedy film directed by Jaap Speyer and starring Georg Alexander, Stella Arbenina and Ralph Arthur Roberts. The film's sets were designed by the art director Rudi Feld.
King of Women | Introduction
The Sport of Kings is a 1931 British comedy film directed by Victor Saville and starring Leslie Henson, Hugh Wakefield and Gordon Harker. It was based on the 1924 play of the same title by Ian Hay. The film was made by Gainsborough Pictures at Elstree Studios. Its sets were designed by Walter Murton.
The Sport of Kings (1931 film) | Introduction
The politically astute Burden soon deduces, and Duffy strategist (and Stark mistress) Sadie Burke confirms, that Duffy is using Stark to split his party's vote and thus allow the opposing party to win. They tell Stark, who begins to give speeches in a straightforward manner to appeal to the public, in defiance of the advice given to him by Duffy. His vigorous strategy attacks the corruption of the existing players and promises schools and roads for his “fellow ignorant hicks”, resulting in Stark winning the election. He manages Duffy by making him his lieutenant governor. Stark recruits Burden to work for him as an adviser.
All the King's Men (2006 film) | Plot
It's a King is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Sydney Howard, Joan Maude and Cecil Humphreys. It was made at Elstree Studios by the producer Herbert Wilcox's British and Dominions company.
It's a King | Introduction
The Politician is a Caroline era stage play, a tragedy written by James Shirley, and first published in 1655.
The Politician | Introduction
The film and book are based on the story of the 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment which included men from the King's estate at Sandringham House who had initially been formed in a "Sandringham Company". The battalion suffered heavy losses in action at Gallipoli on 12 August 1915 and a myth grew up later that the unit had advanced into a mist and simply disappeared. The film dramatises these events and the origins of the myth back home, in the process following an investigator sent after the war on behalf of the Royal Family to find the truth about the company's fate.
All the King's Men (1999 film) | Plot
In 1953 the play was adapted into a film directed by Michael Anderson. George Cole replaced Robertson Hare in the leading role.
Will Any Gentleman? | Film adaptation
The play is thought to date from c. 1639, though firm information of its stage history is lacking; it may have been staged in Dublin, where the author was working at the Werburgh Street Theatre in the later 1630s, before it appeared in London. No license from the Master of the Revels has been found for "The Politician," though the May 26 1641 license for "The Politic Father," an otherwise-unknown play, may apply to it. The title page of the first edition states that the play was acted by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Salisbury Court Theatre, the venue that the company occupied in the 1637–42 period.
The Politician | Date
King appears as a character in "All the Way", a Robert Schenkkan play depicting the first year of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, with an emphasis on events surrounding the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After successful passage of the historic legislation, Johnson's bid to retain the White House in the 1964 presidential election is complicated by turmoil at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, where the upstart Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party bids to unseat the all-white, official delegation that claims to represent the state. "All the Way" captured the 2014 Tony Award for Outstanding Play, and Bryan Cranston, in the role of Lyndon B.
Ed King (activist) | Play
The 1630 quarto contains an unusually full cast list of the original King's Men's production of the play: The list is informative on the state of the King's Men company at this period. The veteran Lowin, who was likely the Iago to Richard Burbage's Othello three decades earlier, was by his early 50s tending toward senior roles. The clown Hilario, played by John Shank, is a thin-man character; the thin man was apparently a standard feature of the King's Men's dramaturgy — in the previous generation of Shakespeare and Burbage, hired man John Sinklo had filled thin-man clown roles like Pinch in "The Comedy of Errors" and Shadow in "Henry IV, Part 2." And the female character of Queen Honoria is written for a supremely beautiful woman; she is more than once described as a "Juno" — which raises questions as to how the boy player Thompson managed the role.
The Picture (Massinger play) | Cast
Film historian Spencer Selby calls the film "[A] hard-hitting noir adaptation of Warren's eloquent novel". Joe Goldberg, film historian and former story editor for Paramount Pictures, wrote about the content of the plot and its noirish fatalistic conclusion, "The plot makes sense, the dialogue is memorable, the story arises from the passions and ideas of the characters. It deals with graft, corruption, love, drink and betrayal, and the subversion of idealism by power, and it might even make someone angry... The story moves toward its conclusion with the dark inevitability of film noir."
All the King's Men (1949 film) | Noir analysis
King and Country (stylised as King & Country) is a 1964 British war film directed by Joseph Losey, shot in black and white, and starring Dirk Bogarde and Tom Courtenay. The film was adapted for the screen by British screenwriter Evan Jones based on the play "Hamp" by John Wilson and a novel by James Lansdale Hodson.
King and Country | Introduction
The film was nominated for four Academy Awards: Maurice Jarre was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Head was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design, and Oswald Morris for the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography.
The Man Who Would Be King (film) | Award nominations
In Hungary, the film was banned by the National Motion Picture Examination Committee (distribution, presentation - July 25, 1935). A magyarországon a filmet az Országos Mozgóképvizsgáló Bizottság betiltotta (forgalmazását, terjesztését, bemutatását - 1935. július 25.). https://adtplus.arcanum.hu/hu/view/AzEst_1935_07/
All the King's Horses (film) | References
Three actors in the film had their singing voices dubbed by other people. The dubbed voices belonged to:
The King and I (1956 film) | Voice only
In April 1948 Ireland signed a contract with Columbia Pictures at $500 a week going up to $1500 a week. Ireland was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his forceful performance as Jack Burden, the hard-boiled newspaper reporter who evolves from devotee to cynical denouncer of demagogue Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford) in "All the King's Men" (1949), making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Academy Award nomination. Ireland was featured as Bob Ford in the low budget "I Shot Jesse James" (1949) the first movie directed by Sam Fuller. He was a villain in the Western "Roughshod" (1949) and a love rival for Paulette Goddard in "Anna Lucasta" (1949).
John Ireland (actor) | "All the King's Men"
The King is a 1995 Indian Malayalam-language political thriller film. Directed by Shaji Kailas and written by Renji Panicker, with Mammootty in the lead role as district collector. The film was a commercial success. In 2012, Shaji Kailas made a combined sequel for "The King" and "Commissioner" (1994), titled "The King and the Commissioner", in which Mammootty and Suresh Gopi reprised their roles as Joseph Alex IAS and Bharath Chandran IPS.
The King (1995 film) | Introduction
His Name Was King () is a 1971 Italian Western film directed by Giancarlo Romitelli and starring Richard Harrison and Klaus Kinski.
His Name Was King | Introduction
in the order of their appearance and as citizens of Rome
Julius Caesar (1953 film) | Dramatis personae
"Britmovie" quoted George Perry from his book "Forever Ealing", ""His Excellency" retains a stagebound atmosphere. Its other great fault lies in the way it wastes the theme’s potential in a glib and artificial treatment. At times the film is like an Ealing comedy that got away, with familiar stereotypes such as the ladies who form the clientele of the ‘Old Tea Shoppe’, and the governor's staff. The governor himself tends towards caricature, retaining a shirt sleeves and braces attitude akin to a trade-union rabble rouser long after he should have made a transition to the respectability demanded by his appointment...
His Excellency (1952 film) | Critical reception
Derek followed that picture with a supporting role as the son of Broderick Crawford in "All the King's Men" (1949), the Best Picture Oscar winner for its year, starring Broderick Crawford. In September 1950, the actor had his name formally changed to John Derek.
John Derek | Columbia Pictures
General Election 1939/40: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;
King's Lynn (UK Parliament constituency) | Elections in the 1940s
The Sport of Kings is a 1921 British silent sports film directed by Arthur Rooke and starring Victor McLaglen, Douglas Munro and Cyril Percival. The screenplay concerns a man who tries to prevent his wealthy ward from marrying a man involved in the horseracing world.
The Sport of Kings (1921 film) | Introduction
Al Clark did the original cut but had trouble putting all the footage that Robert Rossen had shot into a coherent narrative. Robert Parrish was brought on board by Rossen and Columbia Studios head, Harry Cohn, to see what he could do. Since Rossen had a hard time cutting anything he shot, after several weeks of tinkering and cutting, the movie was still over 250 minutes long. Cohn was prepared to release it in this version after one more preview, but this threw Rossen into a panic, so Rossen came up with a novel solution. Rossen told Parrish to "[s]elect what you consider to be the center of each scene, put the film in the synch machine and wind down a hundred feet before and a hundred feet after, and chop it off, regardless of what's going on.
All the King's Men (1949 film) | Production
Cut through dialogue, music, anything. Then, when you're finished, we'll run the picture and see what we've got". When Parrish was done with what Rossen had suggested, they were left with a 109-minute movie that was more compelling to watch. After "All the King's Men" won its Academy Award for Best Picture, Harry Cohn repeatedly gave Parrish credit for saving the film, even though Parrish only did what Rossen told him to do. The editing gambit gives the film a memorably jagged urgency that's unique for a studio-era film. Although Clark is credited as the "Film Editor" (with Parrish being credited as "Editorial Advisor"), both Clark and Parrish received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
All the King's Men (1949 film) | Production
"All the Way" is a 2016 drama based on the historic events of 1964, the first year of the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. Originally broadcast on HBO, the film was directed by Jay Roach and adapted by Robert Schenkkan from his original play of the same name. Bryan Cranston reprised his role as Johnson from the 2014 Broadway production of the play. Gregory Marcel portrays Rev. Ed King in a version of the scene from the play in which Hubert Humphrey offers the President's compromise solution to the renegade delegation.
Ed King (activist) | Film
Other notable films in which he appeared include: the 1921 silent version of "Little Lord Fauntleroy", starring Mary Pickford; 1922's "The Beautiful and Damned", starring Marie Prevost and Kenneth Harlan; "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1937), starring Ronald Colman; James Whale's version of "The Man in the Iron Mask" in 1939, starring Louis Hayward and Joan Bennett; and Cecil B. DeMille's 1942 swashbuckler, "Reap the Wild Wind", starring Ray Milland, John Wayne, and Paulette Goddard. His final screen performance was in a small role as a Senator in the 1944 biopic, "Wilson", with an all-star cast headed by Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox, and Geraldine Fitzgerald.
Emmett King | Biography
Furthermore, shortly after making the film, Bazlen said that "I was a little overwhelmed to have such an important role for my first film part, but I found Nicholas Ray to be a most considerate director."
Brigid Bazlen | "King of Kings" (1961)
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1948 in Northern Ireland | Incumbents
During World War II he served in the Gloucestershire Regiment from 1940 and was promoted Acting Lieutenant-Colonel in 1941. King was originally Labour Party Member of Parliament for Penryn and Falmouth from 1945 to 1950, and served as Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Town and Country Planning 1947 to 1950. He contested Poole in 1950 but lost.
Evelyn King (politician) | Introduction
It was announced in King's Birthday Honours in 1935 that he was to be knighted "for political and public services in Bradford". The title was conferred in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 10 July 1935.
Anthony Gadie | Politics
According to 17th-century commentator Gerard Langbaine, Shirley's source for his plot was the tale of the King of Romania, the prince Antissus, and his mother-in-law, from the "Urania" of the Countess of Montgomery (1621). Thomas Killigrew borrowed plot elements from "The Politician" for his tragedy "The Pilgrim".
The Politician | Sources
At the 1865 general election, he was elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for King's County. He stood down at the next election, in 1868.
John Gilbert King | Political career
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S. Natarajan | King Maker
In December 1949 Columbia suspended him after walking out after filming one scene on "One Way Out" (released as "Convicted"). He sued the studio.
John Ireland (actor) | "All the King's Men"
King Richard II is a 1954 American film directed by George Schaefer for the "Hallmark Television Playhouse" TV series. It starred actor Maurice Evans, who also adopted the teleplay from the original work by William Shakespeare.
King Richard II (1954 film) | Introduction
The King of Kings () is a 1963 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Martin Frič.
The King of Kings (1963 film) | Introduction
In 1947 he was decorated with the King's Medal of Merit in gold.
Guttorm Fløistad (politician) | National politics
Moreno later stated in an interview that France Nuyen was also up for the part, and Moreno believed Nuyen would get it, but since Nuyen was not a contract player with the studio, she was not cast. Reprising their Broadway stage roles, Saunders played Thiang, Adiarte was Chulalongkorn and Benson was the Kralahome, and dancers Yuriko and de Lappe also reprised their stage roles. Alan Mowbray appeared in the new role of the British Ambassador, while Sir Edward Ramsey (demoted to the Ambassador's aide) was played by Geoffrey Toone. The cinematography was by Leon Shamroy, the art direction by John DeCuir and Lyle R.
The King and I (1956 film) | Production
He won both seats, but this time he decided to vacate the assembly seat.
U. Muthuramalingam Thevar | 1957 general election
Jack Burden, a Louisiana news reporter, takes a personal interest in Willie Stark, an idealistic small-town lawyer and parish treasurer. Circumstances develop that result in Tiny Duffy, a local political leader Burden knows, urging Stark to run for governor. Burden's upbringing makes him familiar with the undercurrent of politics – he was raised by his loving godfather Judge Irwin, a former state attorney general, while his good friend, Dr. Adam Stanton, and his sister Anne Stanton—also Burden's former lover—are the children of a former governor. Burden therefore decides to take Duffy's advice and travels as a reporter on Stark's campaign for governor.
All the King's Men (2006 film) | Plot
Lalonde did not seek another term in the 1949 election.
Maurice Lalonde (politician) | Introduction
He was a moderately big man, auburn-haired with watchful grey eyes and a red-brown beard, wearing a wide-brimmed felt hat, blue-grey suit with huge lapels and a low-cut vest, loose cravat with a diamond collar stud, and in the centre of his cream silk shirt-front a fiery opal.
King O'Malley | Federal politics
A Vote for the King of the Romans () is a 2016 Czech historical television film directed by Václav Křístek. It chronicles the early life of Charles IV and his relationship with his father John of Bohemia.
A Vote for the King of the Romans | Introduction
Scott of "The New York Times" expressed disappointment with the film: "Nothing in the picture works. It is both overwrought and tedious, its complicated narrative bogging down in lyrical voiceover, long flashbacks and endless expository conversations between people speaking radically incompatible accents." Michael Medved gave "All the King's Men" two stars (out of four) calling it "depressing and disappointing", a "stodgy melodrama" and a "pointless, pretentious, plodding period-piece". Some reviews were positive. Richard Schickel of "Time Magazine" liked the movie, arguing that "it's much more faithful to the tone of the novel" than the original. Kenneth Turan ("Los Angeles Times") praised the film's "undeniable moral seriousness" and the actors' "exceptional ensemble work." He argued that Zaillian's script and direction "expertly extracted the core of this greatest of American political novels, a work that is both of its time and outside it."
All the King's Men (2006 film) | Critical response
Kamini Kaushal plays the role of Princess Noor and Ranjan plays the tailor-made role of the avenging prince.
Shahenshah (1953 film) | Cast
Nearly a King is a 1916 silent film romantic comedy directed by Frederick A. Thomson, produced by Famous Players Film Company and distributed by Paramount Pictures. John Barrymore stars in a story written for the screen. Barrymore's first wife Katherine Corri Harris makes her screen debut with him in this picture. Frederick Thomson directed and this is now a lost film. One of the earliest screen appearances of a young Adolphe Menjou, just 25 years old.
Nearly a King | Introduction
A copy of the film is preserved in the Library of Congress.
If I Were King (1920 film) | Preservation status
At the end of the English Civil Wars (1642-1651), the forces of Parliament, led by Thomas Fairfax (Dougray Scott) and his loyal deputy Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658, Lord Protector 1653-1658) (Tim Roth), are victorious, and the King, Charles I (Rupert Everett) is a prisoner. Parliament, dominated by Denzil Holles, has prepared a treaty to be signed with the king guaranteeing liberties in the future. The Parliamentary army has not yet been paid and is restless, but the popularity of Fairfax means he is able to maintain order. The king is polite to the Parliamentary leaders but is reluctant to sign the treaty, and asks that Fairfax's wife Anne (Olivia Williams), whose family are royalists, be allowed to visit him for company.
To Kill a King | Synopsis
Darryl Hickman made his film debut in the uncredited role of a child.
If I Were King | Cast
Villon's life has been portrayed multiple times in film. "If I Were King" is a silent film from 1920, starring William Farnum. The 1938 version of "If I Were King" was adapted by Preston Sturges from Justin Huntly McCarthy's 1901 play and novel; the film was directed by Frank Lloyd and starred Basil Rathbone and Frances Dee. McCarthy's play was adapted again in 1945 with "François Villon", a French historical drama film directed by André Zwoboda and starring Serge Reggiani, Jean-Roger Caussimon, and Henri Crémieux. The television biography "François Villon" was made in 1981 in West Germany, with Jörg Pleva in the title role.
François Villon | Film and television