All the King's Men
The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Penn Warren, loosely based on the story of real-life politician Huey Long. From TMDB
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60 of 61 · most liked firstWhen a writer/director makes two of your all-time favorite films, seems only polite to call out those bangers on his birthday. Robert Rossen, BOTD 3/16/1908. 5 Oscar noms. Fave 📽 1949 All the King's Men *Best Picture winner 1961 The Hustler *Best Picture nominee #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Robert Penn Warren (with scenes from the film adaptation of his novel "All the King's Men") - BOTD
unlabelledView post →OTD 11/8/49: Robert Rossen's ruthless ALL THE KING'S MEN has NYC premiere. Portrayed as "man of people," politician feeds own ambition & greed. Sound eerily familiar? Excellent expose of media corruption & partisanship. Very timely still. 7 Oscar noms. Won 3, inc. Picture. All-timer ❤️. #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →365 films in danger of being forgotten 1. Over 50 years old 2. Not on Sight & Sound's list of 250 best films 3. Not on "my 60 beloved films" 4. Not on my "1 film 100 best directors" 141/365 Robert Rossen - All the King's Men (1949) #Filmsky #MovieSky #MovieChallenge #FilmChallenge
unlabelledView post →#defconmovienight goes a bit noir again with 'All the King's Men' - a 1949 political thriller that won Best Picture, Actor and Actress. Join us Sat. at 8pm PDT in the movie-night-text channel of the discord (discord.gg/defcon) you gotta bring your own snacks. #defcon #movienight #filmnoir
unlabelledView post →When a writer/director makes two of your all-time favorite films, seems only polite to call out those bangers on his birthday! Robert Rossen, BOTD 3/16/1908. 5 Oscar noms. Fave 📽: 1949 ALL THE KING'S MEN *Best Picture winner 1961 THE HUSTLER *Best Picture nominee #filmsky 📽🎥🎬🎞
unlabelledView post →Robert Penn Warren (with scenes from the film adaptation of his novel "All the King's Men") - BOTD
unlabelledView post →TCM just showed All The King's Men, a scary movie about populism. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is next. Here's the big scene of Frank Capra's idealism. How we need to channel that energy now. #maddow #lastword youtu.be/Nqr5umxoer4?...
unlabelledView post →Robert Penn Warren (with scenes from the film adaptation of his novel "All the King's Men") - BOTD
unlabelledView post →Remembering the talented and feisty Mercedes McCambridge, Oscar-winning & Tony-nominated film, radio, stage, and TV actress, on her 110th birthday, famous for roles in ALL THE KING'S MEN, JOHNNY GUITAR, GIANT, TOUCH OF EVIL, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, THE EXORCIST, 99 WOMEN, CAGNEY & LACEY, and more.
unlabelledView post →The 1949 film All The King's Men is a great one loosely based on Huey Long
unlabelledView post →I think of the movie ALL THE KING'S MEN (1949): corruption does not stay contained: once corruption becomes common in elite & government circles, it often seeps down to all elements of society, tainting every sincere intention. boxd.it/8di1pN
unlabelledView post →Remembering the great Broderick Crawford, Oscar-winning film and radio actor, on his 114th birthday, seen here in his iconic & powerhouse performance as Willie Stark in Robert Rossen's ALL THE KING'S MEN (1949). #BOTD on 12/9/1911 @tcmtv.bsky.social #TCMParty
unlabelledView post →The challenge is to choose 20 movies that greatly influenced you. One film per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just posters #filmsky Film #4 - All The King's Men (1949)
unlabelledView post →Man always has to be taught over an over again. They have forgotten the message of the original classic William Penn Warren novel and film, "All the King's Men." People forget and must be taught again. #RESIST the Hate. #RESIST the Lawlessness. #RESIST the Tyrant.
unlabelledView post →His story would be the basis for the 1946 Robert Penn Warren novel "All The King's Men" which would be turned into the 1949 movie with Broderick Crawford.
unlabelledView post →The film career of American screenwriter, film director, and producer Robert Rossen #botd spanned almost three decades. His 1949 film All the King's Men won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress...
unlabelledView post →glibness aside you are both so right, have a look at the Ken Burns doco (Prime) about Huey Long, he is pretty much a blue print for Trump, also the 1949 film, which is brilliant, loosely based on him called All the King's Men, there's a remake which was rubbish...but those two are compelling.
unlabelledView post →16 March 1916 – 2004 Mercedes McCambridge, 87, US actress. Film debut: All the King's Men (1949 Oscar) The Scarf * Johnny Guitar * Giant (OscarNom) Suddenly, Last Summer * The Exorcist (1973 Pazuzu voice) Who Is the Black Dahlia * Concorde Airport '79 * The Other Side of the Wind (2018 posthumous)
unlabelledView post →The last (and maybe only time?) I went to a drive-in it was for a double bill of It Happened One Night and All The King's Men with the couple that organised Townsville's classic film screenings. That was a whole other life, Jesus.
unlabelledView post →2/2…Actress for "All the King's Men" in 1950. It was her first movie role. In 1973 she provided the voice of the demon in "The Excorcist."
unlabelledView post →2. All the King's Men (1949). Idealism corrupted. A common them. 3. The Candidate (1972). A film about authenticity. Which in a way was remade as 4. Bulworth (1998) worthy, and a more dated than those above imo. /2
unlabelledView post →I watched All The President's Men last night starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. If this movie was made today, the title would be All the King's Men.
unlabelledView post →Movie years project Year 1949 (115/122) Now Watching 📽️ #5/8 All the King's Men dir. Robert Rossen
unlabelledView post →This is one of my all time favorites! Discovered this movie in the 80s at a theater in the West Village in NYC that would play double features of old movies- A Face in The Crowd and All The King's Men. I watched both movies twice in one day.
unlabelledView post →Born on this day in 1916 was actress of radio, stage, film, and TV, Mercedes McCambridge. Orson Welles called Mercedes "the world's greatest living radio actress". She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her screen debut in All the King's Men (1949). #OnThisDay #botd
unlabelledView post →16 March 1916 – 2004 Mercedes McCambridge, 87, US radio, television and film actress. Film debut: All the King's Men (1949 Oscar) The Scarf * Johnny Guitar * Giant (OscarNom) A Farewell to Arms * Touch of Evil * Suddenly, Last Summer * The Exorcist (the voice of Pazuzu) * The Concorde.. Airport '79
unlabelledView post →🗳️ #OTD in #Film #History 8 November 1949, #RobertRossen's Best Picture Oscar-winning ALL THE KING'S MEN, based on #RobertPennWarren's Pulitzer-winning novel and starring #BroderickCrawford, premiered in New York. It still powerfully resonates today.
unlabelledView post →All the King's Men is a very flawed movie, but Hopkins as the judge was beyond perfect. The way he put so much into "I could say something, Jack. I could say something... and it would hurt."
unlabelledView post →Should do movies about politics. Without saying a) "All the King's Men", b) "All the President's Men" or c) "Lincoln", what is the second best movie about politics?
unlabelledView post →Essential film rec: ALL THE KING'S MEN ('49). Portrayed as "man of people," politician really feeds his own ambition & greed. Sound eerily familiar? Oscar for Best Pic & Actor (Broderick Crawford), excellent expose of party politics, media, corruption. Personal favorite. Very timely. #filmsky 🎥🎥🎞🎬
unlabelledView post →A review of cautionary tale #AllTheKingsMen www.enuffa.com/2026/06/osca... #AcademyAwards #Oscars #BestPicture
unlabelledView post →Who else loves the movie "All the King's Men" with Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge and Joanne Dru? It is based on the life of Huey Long, a populist leader and Governor of Louisiana. Oscar for Best Picture. This is a topical story in 2026. www.imdb.com/title/tt0041...
unlabelledView post →Ah, that's why he puts his name on everything - so he can see what he's up to. I watched All The King's Men the other day: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the... Although I knew a little about Huey Long, it was disturbing to see some of the movie's devices simply being replayed with Trump, in colour.
unlabelledView post →48. All the King's Men (1949) This movie has a really shockingly fast pace with it not really giving you much time to rest. I actually did quite enjoy the plot here but I feel the details are quite messy. I wish I saw more of the gradual spin towards corruption and more of his methods. Plateau
unlabelledView post →Yes, you can get a feel for what we're living through by watching All The King's Men, Wag the Dog, The Manchurian Candidate, and Idiocracy, but what you really must watch is Being There. That movie will show you how idiots rise to power because they are white men with the appearance of wealth.
unlabelledView post →What is the HARDEST line ever said in the history of cinema? 🎥 Sadly there's no pictures of it, and it's otherwise not that good a movie, but "Oh no, I want to SEE you cry" from All the King's Men, as Jack refuses to let his traitor girlfriend apologize gracefully.
unlabelledView post →And, while I know that the rest of the story will be incredibly safe in Coogler's hands, I also know that there aren't too many folks working in film right now who could make the story of African-American folks in All the King's Men work like Coogler could.
unlabelledView post →Born to an Irish family as "Carlotta Mercedes", Mercedes McCambridge was a woman of contradictions. With a steel mesh voice, she was a radio star. Her film debut in "All the King's Men" got her an Oscar. She wrote, "I'm glad I'm a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight." 🎥🎬
unlabelledView post →Who has viewed the 1949 B&W film 'All the King's Men' starring Broderick Crawford? Given our current political situation it's well worth the time.
unlabelledView post →NY TV debut 1/20/55 at 7:30 pm on WPIX's "The First Show.'' Busy Broderick Crawford's first film of 1949 opened March 4 at Times Square's Rialto. He won the Best Actor Oscar for his fifth and last that year, ALL THE KING'S MEN in November.
unlabelledView post →1940s: Best Picture winner, so "unsung" might not apply, but still a powerful look at corruption and how power changed people. Timely again? My ★★★★ review of All the King's Men on Letterboxd boxd.it/3rjeGv
unlabelledView post →All the King’s Men (1983) - Imprint Asia #70 The last film King Hu made in Taiwan before he relocated to California, All the King's Men is a departure from everything that came before it, and a delightful bookend to our two King Hu collections - a mad, dizzyingly complex comedy of manners set in
unlabelledView post →I grew up in North Texas, and occasionally some of the actors in this film would turn up in a production at the Dallas Theater Center or somewhere. So bizarre to be watching a stage adaptation of All the King's Men and see one of the people who lip-synced in the "Wild Wild Life" scene...
unlabelledView post →Have you ever watched the original film version of All The King's Men? It answers your question.
unlabelledView post →True: Ruffalo rehearsing a scene with Sean Penn for All the King's Men movie. Mark's character is supposed to have just come in from the rain. So he's rehearsing in totally wet clothes. For two hours. While Sean has all the lines. Committed to his art. Committed to humanity.
unlabelledView post →1949 All the King's Men My rating: 3/5 Average rating: 3.6/5 I see what this film is trying to do, and respect it but, it’s great scenes and acting stitched together with voice over and stock footage. Also, the ending feels like the sort of ending created to tie up loose ends without much effort.
unlabelledView post →Had a family movie night and, um, uh, my dad picked "All The King's Men" (1949), which was, uh, incredibly relevant 😳
unlabelledView post →Thinking about watching the 2000s version of All the King's Men which is so overblown, overdramatic, and filled with just Southern accent butchery and big performances they thought would get them an Oscar that its a really appealing movie in a so-bad-its-good complete misfire type of way.
unlabelledView post →Broderick Crawford, December 9, 1911, Philadelphia, PA - April 26, 1986, Rancho Mirage, CA, actor in 149 film and television productions 1937 to 1986 including "All the King's Men" 1949 for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and he was in "Born Yesterday" 1950 opposite Judy Holliday .
unlabelledView post →We are living the movie All The King's Men 🤨
unlabelledView post →Honorable Senator, because you asked for movie ideas: Moana; All The King's Men, National Treasure, Fried Green Tomatoes; The Waterboy; The Matrix; Forrest Gump; The Life of Pi and The Fish That Saved Pittsburg. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv5W...
unlabelledView post →Inciting mobs + political violence. Manhandling lawmakers and the press. Betraying allies, wives and the public. Extorting public servants and big companies. "All the King's Men" expires tonight on @tcmtv.bsky.social. But the IRL sequel continues 24/7, live on @cnn.com. www.imdb.com/title/tt0041...
unlabelledView post →Brilliant reposting Ms.W. "...it’s hard not to feel as though this entire episode in U.S. history is an Adam Sandler film gone horribly wrong." I'm also a person who finds answers in film. This past week I have recommended 'All The King's Men', and 'Being There' to those I talk to about #trumpism.
unlabelledView post →56. All the King's Men (1949) Directed by Robert Rossen Starring John Ireland, Broderick Crawford, Joanne Dru Political drama which is surprisingly still relevant today. Some uneven performances and side plots that drag the film down. Fascinating character arc from beginning to end.
unlabelledView post →I had no idea when I started it that All The King's Men, with Broderick Crawford, would turn out to be the perfect movie to watch on January 6th, 2025. youtu.be/XdHgbOp004A?...
unlabelledView post →I enjoy classic movies. I just watched "All the King's Men," the 1949 film by Robert Rossen, based on the novel by Robert Penn Warren and it is striking how many of Donald Trump's tactics seem to be based on the film's antihero Willie Stark (without any of Stark's redeeming qualities). #Trump
unlabelledView post →⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #BestPicture #Oscar winner as well as acting wins for #BroderickCrawford + #MercedesMcCambridge. Interesting #film to watch in light of today's political landscape #AlltheKingsMen (1949) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041113/
unlabelledView post →This week we had They Shot the Piano Player, Late Night with the Devil, and Imaginary on our list before counting up Best Picture Winners Hamlet and All the King's Men. #filmsky podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
unlabelledView post →#allthekingsmen #cinemastodon #filmastodon #movies My ★★★★ review of All the King's Men on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/5RByip
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