All the King's Men movie

Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.

:This article is about the book. For the 1949 film of the book, see All the Kings Men (1949 film). For the 2006 film of the book, see All the Kings Men (2006 film). For the BBC feature-length drama on the Sandringham Company, see All the Kings Men (1999 tv film).All the Kings Men is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, published in 1946 and made into a film in 1949 and again in 2006.

It derives its title from a line in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme.The NovelRobert Penn Warrens novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947.It portrays the dramatic political ascent and decline of Willie Stark (a.k.a. "the Boss"), a populist governor in the American South during the 1930s. The novel is narrated by Jack Burden, a political reporter who comes to work as Governor Starks right-hand man. The trajectory of Starks career is interwoven with Jack Burdens life story and philosophical reflections: "the story of Willie Stark and the story of Jack Burden are, in one sense, one story." (p. 157)The novel was an outgrowth of an earlier version of the story, a verse play entitled Proud Flesh.The version edited by Noel Polk (ISBN 01-5100-610-5) uses the name "Willie Talos" for the Boss as originally written in Penn Warrens manuscript, and is known as the "restored version" for using this name as well as printing several passages removed from the original edit.CharactersWillie StarkThe central character of Willie Stark (Willie Talos as originally written by Robert Penn Warren), seems to have been partially inspired by the life of Huey P. Long, "the Kingfish," former governor of Louisiana and that states U.S.

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All the King's Men Cast

• Anthony Hopkins
• Frederic Forrest
• Jackie Earle Haley
• James Gandolfini
• Jude Law
• Kate Winslet
• Kathy Baker
• Kevin Dunn
• Mark Ruffalo
• Patricia Clarkson
• Paul Desmond
• Talia Balsam
• Thomas McCarthy
• Travis Champagne