Willie Stark speech - "All the Kings Men" (1949)

From American Rhetoric. Hosted here because .wmv streaming sucks for me and its not on here so...

[@deekrivers1]

He well deserved the OSCAR he won for his performance!

[@Charliecomet82]

Every Man A King!

[@gwendolynfluker996]

I saw the movie for the first time in my high school history class back in 1973.A great film with great acting. Sure remember him in on the tv show highway patrol.

[@SlappyPappyWehWeh]

The movie is awesome! It is one of my top 10 all time greatest films I have ever seen.

[@rodneyleon3645]

Broderick Crawford won an Academy Award as best actor of 1949 for his role as a ruthless, scheming Southern political boss in "All the King's Men" but was better-known to later generations as the beefy chief of television's "Highway Patrol."

[@owenmcgee8496]

I guess that's the reason for the "I don't care if you are Broderick Crawford" line from the highway patrol cop to Jackie Gleason in the first Smokey and the Bandit film. God, that's funny.

[@markwatson6783]

Every Man a King

[@martijn130370]

For those that want to look further: Born Yesterday and the Swindlers are knock-out films, too, to name some.

[@deedunheim-deedunpublicrel4547]

yes. Remember Highway Patrol!

[@frankmiller95]

"Canada Dry Ginger Ale, lt's not too sweet." Seriously, what contemporary Republican voters need is a senator version of this guy.

[@djwhitesox]

Saw this movie last night for the first night. Amazing

[@zarbon700]

This is a much better film than the remake. This scene feels more real than the remake.

[@douglasschuler4605]

branden should watch this film,it seems to parallel what is happening today.Seems the dems must have wrote the scrip,and are following it to a t.

[@hubbali666]

one of the best speeches ever !!!!!!!!!! wow.

[@jfallas]

Like the Hicks in the US, with Huey Long in the "share the wealth program to the descamisados (shirtless) of Juan Domingo Peron in Argentina, populism has been a strong movement in America.

[@rhonddanunes]

Filmed in Stockton, Ca; also known as "Hollywood North"...my home town. Also the burial place for film director Russ Meyer. :)

[@WhoBeSilly]

Hollywood North? Ha ha ha ha ha haha ha hahahahhahahaahahahhahahahahahahhaha

[@chuckchuckson4052]

Also filmed in suisun city. A good place to buy crack nowadays

[@jubalcalif9100]

Heavens to Murgatroid ! THANKS so much for uploading ! Great scene from a great film, based on a great novel (which was loosely based on the career of Louisiana politician Huey Long) by Robert Penn Warren. The story is certainly never more relevant than today...considering the present political climate ! CHEERS !! :-)

[@fernandodieguez2553]

Unforgettable scene..

[@rogerfournier3284]

Terrific performance!

[@tacticscommand]

I just read the book. Epic

[@mordecaiesther3591]

❤ We need a President like this !!

[@theresamiley8917]

Happy birthday Huey P. Long.

[@SeverEnergia]

I'm continually amazed people watch this! I'm glad I saved it.

[@snapfinger1]

Somebody call the Highway Patrol. That man’s as rough as a cobb.

[@greg33770]

Old Willie started out all well and good......but.......ya gotta watch the film to find out the rest of the story.....

[@sandraelder1101]

Or read the Pulitzer Prize winning novel!

[@greg33770]

@@sandraelder1101 Read ? bite your tongue ! LOL

[@sandraelder1101]

@@greg33770 🤣 I’ve picked it up in the bookstore several times but it’s quite a tome. I have to be REALLY interested to invest that much time!

[@greg33770]

@@sandraelder1101 LOL....sadly, I've become like Rodney Dangerfield in the movie Back To School, when Sally Kellerman asks him about does he read, get lost in a book, and he says...no I just watch the movie....

[@sandraelder1101]

@@greg33770 That is sad indeed. Books are one of the all time great pleasures in life - entertainment plus brain food! I get ya though. I’m sitting here on my phone with a great book waiting in the other room. I feel like I’ve gotten stupider as my phones have gotten smarter. 😏

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

Just was watching a clip of the movie SWiNG TIME, with a wonderful character actress known for her comedic presence on screen: Helen Broderick. Mother of Broderick Crawford. In one scene she stops, and just watches the other actor onscreen opposite her. And you can see her son's features in hers. Great DNA....As for that remake of ATKM? .Hey, I really like Sean Penn, but don't anybody EVER confuse these two versions of a timely classic. The Broderick Crawford 1949 version (the year I was born) chewed up and spat out the 2006 one... against the wall.

[@Adrianos1000]

I adore...

[@billthestinker]

Crawford enjoyed eating black bean soup on the set and would then break wind 💨 for hours

[@memphismafia5167]

I'm torn on Huey long. Who this was based on. On one hand did so much for Louisiana. But also became Rotten to the core. But it pales to what career politicians do today...so I'm torn...

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

HPL was a complicated man. Conflicted feeling about him? Not surprising. Note to history buffs: look for the T Harry Williams definitive bio on Long. Louisiana fared better than most states during the Depression BECAUSE he kept so many people (black and white, BTW) working - on construction of highways, bridges, buildings. Before his time - we were 'tobacco road dirt poor shoeless, illiterate, etc..We still feel the positive effects of Long's 'pushy administration" in 2021. Was he guilty of some real shady stuff? You betcha. Did he change the face of this state forever and always? Yes, indeed.

[@LordZontar]

Huey was a crook and a dictator. He also was a great man who dragged Louisiana fully into the 20th century, gave it a modern school system and health care system which has since been dismantled. And he destroyed democracy in Louisiana and threatened to do that to the whole of America. And he had big ideas. Yes, a very complicated man was Huey Long, a man you can't just make a snap judgment on.

[@V8_screw_electric_cars]

This state needs more roadblocks they will solve all the problems.

[@memphismafia5167]

Wow. Just wow

[@azaraba9716]

My favorite Yeltsin speech

[@SeverEnergia]

Woah I checked the statistics. If you guys could tell me where you got linked from I'd be like, totally greatful.

[@ebthedoc4992]

The movie was made the year I was born.

[@plasticweapon]

cool.

[@jeremyreagan9085]

I WOULD GIVE MY SOUL FOR A PERSON LIKE THIS FOR 2016!!

[@HvBoedefeld]

+Jeremy Reagan Keep your soul and vote your advocate, Bernie Sanders

[@mjwpowerstroke]

HvBoedefeld The Democratic Party screwed Sanders over because the criminal Hildabeast of the Clinton Crime Family thinks it's her turn. Vote Trump.

[@mjwpowerstroke]

Marie de France trump is the one.

[@sainter1]

LOL ... It's just a movie. These people don't exist. As for Trump, he's just a scammer masquerading as a saviour - he knows Americans are always waiting for a saviour to save them from problems they don't really have. That's how he conned you into voting for him. Now he's going to exploit the office to make as much money as he can get his hands on with the help of his sponsor, Vladimir Putin and Russian oil profits. You fell for it, now you're going to reap what you've sown. You never learn!

[@jeremyreagan9085]

Not me I have not voted since 2008.

[@SpaceGhost67]

Wow. Adumbration of 2016 and possibly 2024.

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

Dan the man Mathews Highway Patrol !

[@mik9napkin598]

In the book its Sadie who tells Jack to “Shut up” during Willie’s speech. A small thing, but a far better choice for characterization.

[@stevew3879]

I wonder if Broderick Crawford was sober when he was doing this, unlike his penchant for alcohol During the filming of Highway patrol if you years later. Regardless, he was still a great actor.

[@AndrewRudin]

Look at all familiar, folks?

[@SeverEnergia]

Andrew Rudin Make America Great Again

[@KJTV67]

Slick Willie!

[@MajesticOak]

Don't you dare lump Huey Long with Trump, that sonofabitch actually cares about his state and his people!

[@fromthesidelines]

Yes- and Donald Trump is going to end up the same way "Willie Stark" did. "Could have been....whole world, 'Willie Stark''. WHOLE WORLD.....'WILLIE STARK'. Why does he do it to me....'Willie Stark'? WHY........??"

[@markwatson6783]

Willie Stark was the brainchild of the late poet Robert Warren Penn portrayed on the big screen by Broderick Crawford and Jude Law, respectively, in Sony Pictures Entertainment's late-1940's cult favorite, All the King's Men. Which Governor Stark do you prefer - Crawford or Law?

[@Voimakas]

Now we just need a modern day Huey to pull Congress and President Obama to the left like Long did with FDR. "How many men ever been to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for nine tenths of the people to eat? The only way you'll ever feed the balance of the people is to make that man come back here and bring back some of that grub he ain't got no business with."

[@paulzammataro7185]

That woman in the audience...😍

[@SeverEnergia]

I think that stems from association with Charles Coughlin,and Gerald L. K. Smith more then anything else - or at least what I've run across in my readings.

[@bethmichael4987]

I feel like I am watching a movie of Trump, and this was in 1949.

[@AnnaisAmerican]

He gets killed at the end.

[@langelodidio-goaldo1105]

Stupenda pellicola basata, non se romanzata o no, sulla vera storia del politico Huey Pierce Long, efficace nel mostrare come il potere possa corrompere una persona che in passato era onesta, c'è un errore quando durante lo scambio di colpi di arma da fuoco alla fine della pellicola l'uomo che risponde al fuoco su colui che ha sparato a Stark spara almeno dieci proiettili da un revolver a sei colpi, quindi stupenda e stupenda per me come valutazione è 8.

[@russellcampbell9198]

Saying the right thing for the wrong reason - a tried and proven political technique as old as politics itself.

[@pinz2022]

I don't recall reading anywhere that the real-life Huey Long ever indulged in anti-semitism. I recall that jew-hating was mentioned at all in the novel although the black-white issue figured heavily.

[@markJohnson-ot7ny]

We need politicians like this today. M

[@DazDidThat]

...trump?.??

[@Jan96106]

You have two of them.

[@plasticweapon]

@@DazDidThat what about him?

[@DazDidThat]

@@plasticweapon btch don't ask me about some shtt 2 years ago..

[@dennymcfastlane8530]

Great Movie, with a fantastic lineup of actors. I won't ruin the ending, but it sure looks like another person in real life copied that scene.

[@jeremyreagan9085]

I have not voted since 2008. I am to cynical to believe in anything other then social movements.

[@wardog0327]

Jeremy Reagan Even social movements can be contorted into malevolent forces. For example, BLM, they publicly called for murder of white police officers. I think your best bet is to research with reason and make your mind up with logic. Don't blindly or biasedly follow the masses.

[@blacknosugarnocream]

@@wardog0327 - You're a liar peddling lies.

[@leonrififi3543]

@@blacknosugarnocream 2 years later and I don’t think he was peddling lies hahaha

[@drewhendley]

2022 🇱🇷😇

[@AwaixJavaid]

is it the real footage or some movie part?

[@rodneyleon3645]

Awaix Javaid movie. Broderick Crawford won an Academy Award as best actor of 1949 for his role as a ruthless, scheming Southern political boss in "All the King's Men" but was better-known to later generations as the beefy chief of television's "Highway Patrol."

[@bluecollarlit]

Actor Broderick Crawford is playing the part of fictional character Willie Stark. Stark was based on real-life Governor of Louisiana, Huey Long. The novel All The King's Men was written by Robert Penn Warren.

[@Nuxunumo]

alrightlistentomeLISTENTOME

[@SeverEnergia]

Yes it is.

[@larry1824]

Youre Hicks all of you. Hicks!!! Well im a hick too!!!!!!!!!!!!!😊😊😊

[@Raelspark]

Yes, that is Gov. Chris Christie!

[@SeverEnergia]

Autonomist actually.

[@SeverEnergia]

Yeah.

[@Mr.Fukoyama91]

if this at 1949 movie so where is the well person born .........

[@JohnPMitten]

I agree 100%

[@m.mm.m9277]

MAGA!!!! DONALD TRUMP!!!

[@SeverEnergia]

@dylanwildlevel I've never seen either so I'd say watch both. :p

[@mackenshaw8169]

Back in the day when Hollywood thought popularism was just dandy.

[@mackenshaw8169]

@Randy White When popularism was percieved as left wing Hollywood loved it. Now that it's percieved as something conservative its suddenly its the source of all evil. The salt of the earth are magically now knuckle dragging inbreds.

[@RO-wn1dg]

@@mackenshaw8169 you think this film portrayed populism as a good thing?! The guy is literally assassinated

[@mackenshaw8169]

@@RO-wn1dg Yes. He's martyed.

[@RO-wn1dg]

@@mackenshaw8169 have you actually seen the film? That’s not the thrust of the narrative at all

[@godwinanthonygravador3019]

Willie Stark is Proto-AOC/Proto-Trump

[@SeverEnergia]

yes

[@SeverEnergia]

Holy shit. 6000 views. :|

[@SeverEnergia]

@shaneu1 American Rhetoric sucks at streaming. Its insane. >:|

[@sailor123ize]

Think Trump saw this movie?

[@kennethdower7425]

Well, you can be sure he never read the book!

[@eameece]

He should, it might do him good.

[@SeverEnergia]

I know. :|

[@mikedebret7113]

Hmmm Trump Vibes Anyone!!!! Gotta love it

[@LordZontar]

Trump only wishes he could have been a quarter of the man Willie Stark, or the real-life Huey Long, ever was.

[@JRaynor99]

The ORIGINAL book (as Robert Penn Warren wanted) has been re-released. It's better that the version put out originally - get a copy!!)

[@fernandodieguez2553]

Tiene el mismo perfil de un politico peruano.

[@wardog0327]

Fernando Dieguez Tambien de Los Estados Unidos amigo.

[@minik746]

The book was really better than this movie which was old-fashioned even in 1949. He did not deserved the Oscar for best actor. His performance was ridiculous sometimes - strength was not there, only bullying. His acting was better as the beefy chief of television's "Highway Patrol. Hollywood always prefer bullying. cocky big mouth, and later pouting actor.

[@jkoff76]

lol!!!

[@DeadEyeRabbit]

not even close to sean penn

[@LordZontar]

No. Miles above Sean Penn.

[@patpearce8221]

Huey long would of made a great president.

[@kaljic1]

No, Trump didn't invent demagoguery.

[@vanessakhan9266]

Look at Trump Epic😲

[@terenceboris851]

Trump 2020🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸!!!!

[@DazDidThat]

Absolutely not.. you really must be a idiot

[@Firebrand55]

Brexit would have been over 2 1/2 years ago if Stark had been there. Instead, weak-chinned, suited shinies have dragged it out. Shiny: anyone who sits at a desk/ computer/ coffee machine......the only physical work they do is moving the mouse...the seat of their pants eventually becomes shiny with prolonged sitting.

[@cockeyedoptimista]

Thank you for answering the question I was about to ask you. Shinies!!

[@LordMcSatan]

Democrats

[@heavenshaffer]

I like thew newer one better.

[@Doc418]

2006 movie is not that good.

[@sonomacalendar9949]

Can anybody tell why I like this version more than the one with Johnny Depp? I would say Depp's version is shit, but I don't want to insult shit. The only point which Depp made in his movie was speaking with completely incomprehensible Southern accent, which isn't actually used by real people (not by governors, that's for sure) for the last 100 years. I can easily prove my point - view footage of Governor (Senator) Huye Long on whom Willie Stark's character is based. Long was from Louisiana, and he talks like a normal person, not like a hill billie snake handler from Kentucky

[@LordZontar]

Sean Penn was star of the remake, not Johnny Depp. And no, the remake doesn't have anything like the power of the original. Not even close.

[@cockeyedoptimista]

Johnny depp? You are confusing me. However I really appreciate your point, even if it is about Sean Penn and not Johnny Depp. All these modern actors are the same anyways. I saw the trailer with Sean penn, and everyone was talking about this one so I looked. I haven't seen either movie. But I was really puzzled by Sean Penn's accent, because the Louisiana accent is very distinctive and it sounds absolutely nothing like that. I don't think Sean Penn knows anything about louisiana! I don't even know anything about Louisiana but I I know that. So thank you for writing that comment. It and others like it reassured me that my ear was not crazy.

[@deaustin4018]

obviously the best performance, though I still like Sean Penn in the 2006 movie (though when you think about it, Homer Stokes (Wayne Duvall) was just as colorful a southern populist politician)

[@117rebel]

The Sean Penn version was better. More motivating.

[@jag6183]

NO F*ING WAY!!!

[@stephencraig3928]

Way.

[@apope06]

I like Sean Penn's version better!

[@tomaszszupryczynski5453]

lol another movie that is remake, same as fly with goldblum is also remake. pedowood was pathetic already in '80s