All the King

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Actors: John Ireland , Will Wright , Grandon Rhodes , Ralph Dumke , Raymond Greenleaf , Broderick Crawford , Joanne Dru , Katherine Warren , Shepperd Strudwick , Mercedes McCambridge , Walter Burke , Anne Seymour , John Derek

Director: Robert Rossen

IMDB Rate: 7.7 out of 10 (4409 votes)

Plot Summary:Jack Burden is a newspaper reporter who first hears of Willie Stark when his editor sends him to Kanoma County to cover the man. Whats special about this nobody running for county treasurer? Hes supposedly an honest man. Burden discovers this to be true when he sees Stark delivering a speech and having his son pass out handbills, while the local politicians do their best to intimidate him. Willie Stark is honest and brave. Hes also a know-nothing hick whose schoolteacher wife has given him what little education he has. Stark loses the race for treasurer, but later makes his way through law school, becoming an idealistic attorney who fights for what is good. Someone in the governors employ remembers Stark when the governor needs a patsy to run against him and split the vote of his rival. The fat cats underestimate Stark but Jack Burden, Starks biggest supporter, overestimates the mans idealism. To get where he wants to go, Willie Stark is willing to crack a few eggs - which include his tough-talking assistant, Sadie Burke Jacks poised and elegant fianc