Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

clanciai Edward G. Robinson on the top of his career and Burt Lancaster in the beginning of his as his son must turn into something absolutely special, and it does, with a vengeance. To this comes the very ingenious composition of the play. It's impossible to guess anything of what is going on in the beginning, as all you get glimpses of to begin with is some relationship problems. Gradually the war gets involved, and then the trauma starts building up.Larry has not returned from ther war, and his mother is still expecting him every day. His girlfriend Ann is coming for a visit, and Larry's brother Burt Lancaster wants to marry her, certain that Larry never will come back. Both his parents advise against it, but she is willing, and Burt is difficult to turn off. Other relatives turn up, especially young families, and then there is some problem about Ann's brother and their father, who is in jail. Gradually it dawns on the audience that Burt's father got him there and that there still is some unfinished business around somewhere.This is just some contours of the very complicated mess of family intrigue, which constantly turns more complex and difficult to cope with, as also the other father in prison finally gets an important part in the play.This could be the greatest of American family dramas. Arthur Miller would never succeed in writing anything like it, and his following plays are shadows of it. The actors are all at their best and make the drama truly a Greek tragedy widely transcending anything Eugene O'Neill has written. Tennessee Williams would find a more stable standard though than Miller in keeping up a high level of drama in many plays.

jacobs-greenwood Producer Chester Erskine wrote the screenplay for this Arthur Miller play about a son that discovers his financially successful father isn't all that he seems to be; Irving Reis directed. Burt Lancaster plays the son Chris Keller, Edward G. Robinson plays his factory owner father Joe ("if you want to know, ask Joe"). Mady Christians plays Joe's wife Kate, Louisa Horton plays Chris's fiancée Ann Deever, who had been Chris's brother Larry's fiancée, but Larry was killed in World War II even though his mother is in denial about this fact.This compelling drama doesn't really begin until Ann's brother George (Howard Duff) comes to town with accusations that his father Herbert is taking the rap for Joe's malfeasance during the war when defective cylinders were knowingly shipped from the Keller factory to be used in the war effort. The cylinders were then installed in airplanes, thirty-one of which crashed, killing their crews.Though Joe was exonerated, Herbert was convicted and sentenced to a prison term. Joe assumes that everyone in his community has accepted him back into their graces, but some know better with regards to who was responsible for the tragedies. Joe's neighbors include a doctor (Lloyd Gough) and his nurse wife (Arlene Francis) as well as a stockbroker (Harry aka Henry Morgan), his wife (Elisabeth Fraser) and their three kids.Though hot-headed George is initially calmed down and soothed by Kate, Ann, and the others including Joe, who helps the young man remember how forgetful his father had always been, the past incident rises back to the surface, and things won't stay how they have always been.George drives a wedge between Ann and Chris, who decides that he must find out what really happen, so he visits Herbert (Frank Conroy) in prison. With the truth, he returns to confront his father but it isn't until Ann provides him with a letter from Larry which reveals yet another startling tragedy that Joe takes responsibility for his past actions in a climactic way.

kijii Without a doubt, the late Arthur Miller is best known for his play, Death of a Salesman. Yet, he did write some other notable plays and screen plays, and All My Sons is a little gem, very well presented as a movie here. I have seen this movie twice on TCM in the last month and the more I see it the more I love it.This drama is about a self-made man, Joe Keller (Edward G. Robinson), who owns a machine plant that produces airplane parts during World War II. He and his partner, Herbert Deever (Frank Conroy), had profited heavily from military contracts during the war. But, when it was discovered that they had sent out defective parts to keep their army contract--and that these defective parts had cost several army airmen their lives--it had put the plant under a cloud. When the scandal hit the plant, Joe was able to sidestep the scandal while his partner, Deever, was sent to jail.As the drama opens, Joe is trying to convince his son, Chris (Brut Lancaser) to join him in the business. Chris is dating Deever's daughter, Ann (Louisa Horton), who had previously been in love with Chris' older brother before he was killed in the war. Although the relationship between the Kellers and the Deevers had been strained by the plant scandal, the two Deever children, Ann and her brother Geroge (Howard Duff), remained fairly close to the Kellers. The Deever children had known Joe as their father's partner, since childhood. And, Chris, Ann, and George were practically raised together as brothers and sisters.Joe is able to put the scandal behind him and remain a proud pillar of the community. He is well liked by his neighbors, mainly for the way he had cleverly survived the scandal. In fact, he seems so untouched by the scandal that even his son, Chris, is unaware of any role that his father may have had in it. The truth about Joe's involvement in the scandal is uncovered in a sudden turn of events--events that would change everyone forever. This movie may seem dated to some. Yet, to me, it seems as topical today as it was then. All one need do is to think about the many screw-ups in Bush's War to realize that we haven't come that far in the last 60 years.I can't imagine a better performance of this play than the one presented here. This was Burt Lancaster's fifth screen appearance, and his role is more sensitive than moviegoers had seen until this point. Still, he seems up to the challenge and I'm sure this role helped to prove his versatility. Most of the women in the movie were—and are-- fairly unknown. Yet, Mady Christians was notable as Joe's wife, Kate.However, the movie is just dominated by Edward G. Robinson in his role as Joe. Joe is as important to this play as Willy Loman is to Death of a Salesman. Though I am used to seeing great performances out of Robinson, I think this is one of his very best. In fact, I think it was worthy of an Oscar in the 1949. But, alas, Robinson wasn't even nominated.

jotix100 A moral dilemma is at the center of this excellent expose about an unscrupulous man that has been responsible for the death of young pilots during WWII. Joe Keller, a prosperous man, is by all appearances a successful businessman. Most people in his town think he got away with murder. Joe, in defending himself, points out that justice prevailed, feeling vindicated for the crime that sent his partner, Herbert Deever, to jail for a crime he is involved after following Joe's orders.The past comes to haunt Joe Keller as Annie Deever, the daughter of Herbert Deever comes to visit the Kellers. Kate Keller is suffering for Larry, her missing in action son, who after three years after the end of that conflict has not come back. Annie has fallen for Chris, the other son that now works in his father's business. Annie's visit proves to be the spark that marks the unraveling of Joe Keller, as he comes to term in facing his guilty conscience. Learning the real reason of Larry's fate in the war brings Joe to face a reality he did not want to deal with because he chose the status quo, knowing full well his own guilt in the tragedy he provoked.Arthur Miller wrote the play in which this film is based. The original cast included Ed Begley, Arthur Kennedy and Karl Malden, in the legendary production directed by Elia Kazan. The playwright took a hard look at the American Dream, as early as the boom years after the end of WWII, something clearly unheard of in those days. Mr. Miller became a new voice in the theatrical world by bringing forward issues that took a look at the core of the American society. The inspiration for the drama was based on a real story that appeared in a newspaper. Miller questioned many things Americans took for granted.The film version boasted an ensemble cast dominated by Edward G. Robinson, an actor that gave impressive accounts of the characters trusted to him to bring to life. His Joe Keller is a calculating man that feels he did not do anything wrong. Burt Lancaster plays Chris, the son that must fight for his right to marry Annie, the girl the Kellers did not want for him because of her involvement with Larry. Mady Christians was impressive as Kate, the wife who chose to go along with a husband she loved, but who she thought was guilty, all along. The weakest role in the film version was perhaps Louisa Horton who was miscast as Annie. In a way, this was her first screen appearance, so it might have been she felt insecure in connecting with her Annie. Howard Duff, Arlene Francis, Harry Morgan and the excellent Frank Conroy, are seen in minor roles.Irving Reis directed Chester Erskine's screen adaptation. The black and white cinematography was by Russell Metty and the music score is credited to Leith Stevens.This is a powerful drama.