All My Sons

1948

Action / Drama / Film-Noir

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 80% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 2655 2.7K

guilt post world war ii

Plot summary

During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son plans to marry Deever's daughter.

Director

Irving Reis Photo
Irving Reis

Top cast

Harry Harvey Photo
Harry Harvey as Judge
Howard Duff Photo
Howard Duff as George Deever
Edward G. Robinson Photo
Edward G. Robinson as Joe Keller
Margaret Bert Photo
Margaret Bert as Townswoman
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863.71 MB
1280*932
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 2
1.57 GB
1472*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by billyweeds 8 / 10

Much better than I expected

Since this movie had no particular reputation, I expected a somewhat ho-hum adaptation of Arthur Miller's play. In fact, the movie somewhat improves on the play. It's not afraid to be a little more "superficial" than the play, opting less for profundity than for solid melodrama, and I do mean solid. Robinson is superb, but the real surprise for me was the unshowy, very subtle (for him) performance by Lancaster, never a favorite of mine in his latter-day, hammy period. Here he seems content to be an ensemble player, supporting Robinson and playing a relatively quiet, Gary Cooper sort of role, and therefore he comes off more of a genuine star than usual. When he does finally explode in physical violence, the effect is truly shocking.
Reviewed by Doylenf 7 / 10

Edward G. Robinson in another powerhouse performance...

ALL MY SONS may have been slightly diluted for the screen as compared to the stage play which implicated corruption and wartime profiteering on a higher level than just one or two business men, but it's still powerful stuff and extremely well directed by Irving Reis. Individual scenes have a strength that is impressive, largely due to the excellent central performances of BURT LANCASTER, EDWARD G. ROBINSON and MADY CHRISTIANS. Robinson, in particular, makes the most of a meaty role that has him cocky and confident one moment, then bruised and bitter the next as his past crimes catch up with him--and his conscience.Seems that during WWII, he and his partner (FRANK CONROY) were pressured to finish making cylinder parts for airplanes on the government's tight schedule and knowingly sent defective parts which caused the death of twenty-one pilots when their planes went down. Robinson has been hiding the truth from himself and his neighbors ever since, concerned only with making a decent living for himself and his family in suburban America.Conflicts arise when others around him begin to question his role in the crime that sent his partner to jail. The son of the jailed partner, played in rather stiff fashion by HOWARD DUFF, is unforgiving when he realizes Robinson shared the guilt with his father and yet let his father take the blame for the incident. Lancaster, too, and his girlfriend (LOUISA HORTON) who happens to be Duff's sister, also bring the conflicts into the open when they start asking for answers and probing for the truth. Horton is rather colorless in what is meant to be a sympathetic role and spent her remaining years in TV roles.But it's EDWARD G. ROBINSON who makes the biggest impression as the father, proud of his achievements and obviously in denial until his son, Lancaster, makes him realize why his other son never returned from the war--which leads to a tragic ending.Summing up: Somber drama never quite overcomes its stage origins but it's still powerful stuff.Trivia note: The only implausible factor in the casting--the physical impossibility of BURT LANCASTER as Robinson's son, when he bears no physical resemblance whatsoever to Eddie--nor Mady Christians for that matter!
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