All the king's men

Resource Information

The work All the king's men represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Noble County Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

All the king's men

Statement of responsibility

Columbia Pictures

Contributor

• Columbia Pictures Corporation
• Relativity Media
• Edelman, Pawel, 1958-
• Hopkins, Anthony, 1937-
• Horner, James
• Law, Jude, 1972-
• Penn, Sean, 1960-
• Ruffalo, Mark
• Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989
• Winslet, Kate
• Zaillian, Steven

Subject

• Feature films
• Feature films
• Governors -- Election -- Drama
• Governors -- Louisiana -- Drama
• Louisiana -- Drama
• Manipulative behavior -- Drama
• Melodrama
• Melodrama -- Feature
• Melodrama, American
• Political -- Feature
• Reporters and reporting -- Louisiana -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• trueDrama
• Feature films
• Melodrama
• Melodrama, American
• Political
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• fre
• eng
• eng

Summary

Willie Stark is an uncorrupted small-town mayor in 1950s Louisiana. He gets picked by the political machine to run as a wild card candidate in the upcoming gubernatorial race. But, when Willie realizes that he is being manipulated, he veers off on his own to become the darling of the electorate's downtrodden and forgotten hicks. Covering the campaign for a local paper is Jack Burden, whose editorial pieces become so admiring of Willie that he's fired. But, when Stark wins, Burden hires onto the new governor's team as a personal aide. Once in office, Governor Stark antagonizes the state legislature, the oil companies, and the moneyed classes with his share-the-wealth promises to the sweaty masses. Legislators become so outraged that they start serious impeachment talk, a move supported by the admired and retired Judge Irwin, who also happens to be Jack's godfather

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Pawel Edelman ; editor, Wayne Wahrman ; music, James Horner ; costume designer, Marit Allen ; production designer, Patrizia von Brandenstein

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG-13; for an intense sequence of violence, sexual content, and partial nudity

Language note

• In English or dubbed French with optional English or French subtitles
• Closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1995.9.P6

LC item number

A45 2006

PerformerNote

Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Patricia Clarkson, Kathy Baker, Jackie Earle Haley, Anthony Hopkins

Runtime

128

Target audience

general

Technique

live action