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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404913769
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1404913769
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: September 05, 2006
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 15771
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1949
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The story of the rise of politician willie stark from a rural county seat to the spotlight. Along the way he loses his initial innocence and becomes just as corrupt as those who he assaulted before for this characteristic. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/05/2006 Starring: Broderick Crawford Mercedes Mccambridge Run time: 110 minutes
Amazon.com:
Writer-director Robert Rossen and character actors Broderick Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge (in her film debut) took home Oscars (for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actress, respectively) for this excellent adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Crawford stars as Willie Stark, a charismatic populist Southern politician (inspired by the real Louisiana Governor Huey Long) who belies his 'man of the people' roots as he ruthlessly maneuvers, lies, and deals his way into the halls of power. John Ireland is his right-hand man, Jack Burden, a newsman turned political flack who hangs on to Stark's early idealism even in the face of Stark's most reprehensible acts of corruption. McCambridge is Stark's cool mistress come calculating assistant. The immediacy of the drama is due in part to a documentary-like style, notably in the scenes on the campaign trail where Stark sways crowds with his folksy rhetoric and estimable charm. Joanne Dru and John Derek also costar. Rossen's savage screenplay and firm direction give the film a powerful punch, but it's Crawford's blustery charm and oversized performance that carry the picture. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - More things change
...the more they stay the same. A classic film that's a little raw in its telling, but is still a film with a lot to say. Broderick Crawford gives a great performance of a 'Hick' lawyer that pulls himself through the muck with good intentions, but soon finds out how much mud can stick to you and sling onto others. There are elements in this film that is still true and relevant to our political officials to this day. A man is born in sin and raised in corruption, after all. A good film that all ... Read More
Rating:  - Willie Stark is more gutsy than Bush or Clinton
Although this film is about corruption and politics, Willie Stark has
more 'guts' than anybody running today in the year, 2008.
And Sadie Burke(Mercedes McCambridge) could blow Hillary Clinton back
to Arkansas along with her wimpbag husband, Bill.
All said and done, this film is fantastic, better than the novel--too trashy, salty language(who needs it!)
Great cast, screenplay and director. John Ireland SHOULD have gotten
the OSCAR for best supporting actor--he ... Read More
Rating: - LOUISIANA LONGS FOR LONG
This film is seemingly an old black and white throwaway,hopelessly lost in time.Think again! This is a lightning paced multiple Academy Award winner that is really a timeless movie of both man and politics.Crawford gives the performance of his life portraying Willie Stark, whom everyone assumes is the long ago buried Huey Long, former governor of Louisiana. Enraged by backroom politics that cost him his first election, Stark appeals directly to the people,and never loses another election. In the ... Read More
Rating:  - Didn't Do It For Me
This morality tale, based in large part, of course, on the rise and fall of Louisiana's Huey Long, seemed shallow to me and needed more in the way of an emphasis on the back room dealings that placed the abruptly corrupted Willie Stark in power. This was a film that rushed along without ever giving its characters time or room to develop. I didn't care about anyone in the movie, start to finish, and don't think this is the great classic it's regarded to be. As for the novel on which it's based, or the ... Read More
Rating: - Powerful movie
This was one one of the best movies I have ever seen. The acting is powerful and dramatic - and thoroughly believable. I had recently read the book and was worried the movie would not do justice to the book. I needn't have worried. The movie moved along at a fast pace and was very emotion packed. I recommend it to everyone!
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