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All the King's Men is a 1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren. The novel tells the story of charismatic populist governor Willie Stark and his political machinations in the Depression-era Deep South. It was inspired by the real-life story of U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, who was assassinated in 1935.
- Robert Penn Warren
- 1946
Willie Stark, fictional character, a central figure in the novel All the King’s Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren. The life and career of Willie Stark, a flamboyant governor of a Southern U.S. state, were based on those of Huey Long, governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1931. Like his real-life model,
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Willie Stark is a southern American politician, of humble origin, now a state governor. He began his political career as an idealist and champion of the working class, but as his career progresses, he becomes more and more corrupt, shrewd and ruthless, willing to stretch the boundaries of the law as far as he can.
La película narra el ascenso político de Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford) un honrado político de un condado rural del sur estadounidense que se caracteriza por su lucha contra la corrupción. En su ascenso al poder Willie se volverá tan corrupto como aquellos a los que denunció en sus comienzos.
Todos los hombres del rey es una novela de 1946 de Robert Penn Warren que narra la historia del carismático gobernador populista Willie Stark y sus maquinaciones políticas en el Sur profundo de la era de la Gran Depresión. Se inspiró en la vida real del senador estadounidense Huey P. Long, asesinado en 1935.
22 de sept. de 2006 · All the King's Men: Directed by Steven Zaillian. With Sean Penn, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.
Willie Stark –inspirado en una figura histórica, Huey Long, el célebre y discutido gobernador populista de Louisiana– es un personaje de poderosa y compleja personalidad: orador amado por las multitudes y dictador sin escrúpulos que se mantiene en el poder mediante la corrupción y el chantaje.
