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All the King’s Men
Film Review August 22, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: This political allegory adapted from Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is an on-target portrait of a backwoods populist (reminiscent of Huey Long) who becomes the electorate’s messiah. Broderick Crawford’s...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Robert Rossen. Starring: Broderick Crawford, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge and John Derek..."
Born Yesterday
Film Review May 11, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Judy Holliday steals the show as the dumb blonde whose gangster boyfriend wants her to acquire some culture, so he hires her a tutor. Needless to say, the plan backfires...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: George Cukor. Starring: Judy Holliday, William Holden and Broderick Crawford..."
Celebrated for the Least of Reasons
Books Story October 15, 1999
by Tom Doyal
Description: Chronicle reviewer Tom Doyal has took to writin' just like Larry L. King, the playwright behind The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (and much more, Doyal reveals, in his review of King's new book of letters).
"...Now that the tinsel glitter of Christmas is gone with all of its vulgarities (John Wayne as a Roman Soldier crying in the shadow of the The Cross, Broderick Crawford as Santa Claus, Truman Capote as the Yuletide Fairy) let me wish you a heart-felt Bah Humbug and the same throughout the coming New Year." The letter goes on to plead for prompt payment of an advance for a new book...."
Scanlines
Screens Story July 1, 1999
"...There are a few great cinematic moments in which a character shows us some remarkable change. Broderick Crawford's great transformative speech in which he goes from hick to politician inAll the King's Men always comes to mind, as does Brando's disintegration at the end of Last Tango in Paris..."
Human Desire
Film Review
Description: Fritz Lang helmed this very American adaptation of Émile Zola's La Bête Humaine in which a railway brakeman, recently returned from the Korean War, becomes involved with his boss' wife....
"...Directed by: Fritz Lang. Starring: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame and Broderick Crawford..."
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