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Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians

All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing: during World War II, rushing to meet an order from the Army, he knowingly ...( read more  read more... )sold them defective airplane parts which later caused the planes to crash and killed 21 men. He framed his business partner for this crime and engineered his own exoneration; now, his son is about to marry the partner's daughter, the affair is revisited, and his lie of a life is unraveled. Joe has spent his entire life in the single-minded pursuit of wealth for the sake of his family, an American Dream gone nightmarishly awry; this is a story about responsibility: Joe and his generation must understand that the boys he killed--all the boys in the War--were his sons, too. But Arthur Miller, who wrote this powerful and moving work in 1947, had more than just that on his mind: this is a movie about all the compromises we are forced to make to live in a dishonest world, about a country's irrevocable loss of innocence, oddly timely as we sit poised to enter a new millennium.

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Directed by: Irving Reis

Release Date: May 1, 1948

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  • flixsterman
    March 15, 2009
    flixsterman
    The son of a small town business man discovers that his loving, devoted father may have sold defective aircraft parts to the U.S. military during WWII.

    A nice vehicle for showcasing the talents of both Burt Lancaster (the son) and Edward G. Robinson (the father). This post-wa...( read more)r morality tale deals with the impact that our decisions and choices have on others. A good film but not one that's exceptionally memorable.
  • 01MovieMan
    December 12, 2008
    01MovieMan
    This is a good movie classic
  • tiltedsplash
    December 30, 2007
    tiltedsplash
    It's been a long time but it's a good movie.

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