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...King's Men. Broderick Craw ford as a ruthless backwoods politico who strongly suggests the late Huey Long (TIME...
...King's Men. Broderick Craw ford as a ruthless backwoods politico who strongly suggests the late Huey Long (TIME...
...easy to sigh for the days of Senators with tongues of silver and minds of steel, to forget that some of today's Senators rank high in character and vision, that few of the present Senators are as bad as some specimens of recent history-the Bilbos, Huey Longs, "Pappy" O'Daniels and "Cotton Ed" Smiths. Some are merely time servers and seat warmers who are as incapable of harm as of greatness. There are others whose antics are sometimes cheap and whose motivations are sometimes sordid. But their faults in one area of lawmaking or politicking...
Yugoslavia's Ales Bebler, commenting on All the King's Men (a fictional film biography of Huey Long, Louisiana's late little Tito) found it a threat to democracy. "The main idea you get out of it is that you .can believe no politicians . . . Even the most humble farmer rising to be a governor of a state is necessarily corrupted by power, it says, and after a while develops a fascist tendency and has SS troops around him. It makes for pessimism. It undermines democracy...
...gangster-western badman, emerges from the strict typecasting of his former roles to characterize a man whose moral standards change to meet political requirements. Stark begins as a poor farmer, ambitious to improve living conditions for him and his kind in the state. He winds up a miniature Huey Long-type dictator whose main concern for state improvement is vote-getting. But Crawford's fine characterization never overplays the good or the bad to make the moral painful...