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オール・ザ・キングスメン [ ブロデリック・クロフォード ] 価格:1,100円 (2020/12/16 10:53時点) 感想(0件)

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The story of the rise of politician Willie Stark from a rural county seat to the governor's mansion is depicted in the film. He goes into politics, railing against the corruptly run county government, but loses his race for county treasurer, in the face of unfair obstacles placed by the local machine. Stark teaches himself law, and as a lawyer, continues to fight the local establishment, championing the local people and gaining popularity. He eventually rises to become a candidate for governor, narrowly losing his first race, then winning on his second attempt. Along the way he loses his innocence and becomes as corrupt as the politicians he once fought against. As he rises, Stark philanders and gets involved with many women, taking his PR man/journalist Jack Burden's own girlfriend, Anne Stanton, as his mistress.

Stark's son Tommy drinks to deal with his feelings about his father, eventually crashes his car, injuring himself and killing his female passenger. When Stark bullies Tommy into playing a football game, Tommy becomes paralyzed after a brutal hit.

Stark, who had always dealt with those who got in his way by any means, begins to see his world start to unravel and he discovers that not everyone can be bought off.

The story has a complex series of relationships. All is seen through the eyes of the journalist, Jack Burden, who admires Stark and even when disillusioned still sticks by him. Stark's campaign assistant, Sadie is clearly in love with Stark and wants him to leave his wife, Lucy. When Stark's reputation is brought into disrepute by Judge Stanton (Anne's uncle), he seeks to blacken the judge's name. When Jack finds evidence of the judge's possible wrongdoing, a quarter century earlier, he hides it from Stark. Anne gives the evidence to Stark, who uses it against her uncle, who immediately commits suicide. Anne seems to forgive Stark, but her brother, Adam, the surgeon who helped save Tommy's life after the car crash, cannot. After Stark wins an impeachment investigation, Adam assassinates Stark. The doctor in turn is shot down by Sugar Boy, Stark's fawning assistant. Having lost their respect for him, Jack and Anne agree to find a way to destroy Stark's reputation just as he dies.

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Broderick Crawford as Willie Stark　ブロデリック・クロフォード
John Ireland as Jack Burden　ジョン・アイルランド
Joanne Dru as Anne Stanton　ジョーン・ドルー
John Derek as Tom Stark　ジョン・デレク
Mercedes McCambridge as Sadie Burke　マーセデス・マッケンブリッジ
Shepperd Strudwick as Adam Stanton　シェパード・ストラドウィック

写真・配役
https://fanblogs.jp/jimmy8989/archive/1183/0?1608084705


Won
Best Picture
Best Actor (Broderick Crawford)
Best Supporting Actress (Mercedes McCambridge)

Nominated
Best Director (Robert Rossen)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Supporting Actor (John Ireland)
Best Film Editing

1949年の作品「オール・ザ・キングスメン」。
1949年度のアカデミー作品賞授賞作。ブロデリック・クロフォード主演。

何を描いた作品かというと、政治腐敗です。
スタークが権力を得ていくにつれ、理想主義を地にまみれさせ、俗物に堕ちていくというもの。
そのスタークをブロデリック・クロフォードが演じました。
スタークにはモデルがあると言われており、それはヒューイ・ロングというアメリカ・ルイジアナ州知事、上院議員を務めた人物です。

どうやら買収や脅しで政敵を排除していたようで敵が多かったみたいです。
結果、1935年に暗殺されることになったわけです。

内容が政治腐敗というアメリカの恥部を描いただけに、日本では1949年当時は公開されませんでした。
1976年にようやく日本でも公開されました。