Directed by Robert Rossen
Starring Broderick Crawford, Mercedes McCambridge and John Ireland
Screenplay by Robert Rossen, based on the novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren
Down the years there have been a number of Best Picture winners that look like they were mistakes. In another post, somewhere else on this blog – but not necessarily as part of The Best Picture Project – I outlined “The Little Best Pictures”, or, those films to win Best Picture while still winning three or less Oscars. In every case the film that won Best Picture was not the winner of the most awards that year and won in so few of the important categories that their victories as Best Picture seems to be something of a mistake. All The King’s Men was one of those films. Continue reading
(1956)
