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All The King's Men - Broderick Crawford's "Hick" speech
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| 7/18/14
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Posted on 07/18/2014 8:42:35 PM PDT by DemforBush
One of Broderick Crawford's best moments in an Oscar-winning performance as Willie Stark.
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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: allthekingsmen; classicfilm; williestark
A great moment in a great film. All The King's Men was nominated for six Oscars, with three wins. It remains, IMHO, one of the best political films ever released in the U.S.
To: DemforBush
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posted on
07/18/2014 8:44:25 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(Whoever double-crosses me and leaves me alive, he understands nothing about Tuco.)
To: DemforBush
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posted on
07/18/2014 8:45:21 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: bigbob; DemforBush
It's not too sweet. I repeat: It's not too sweet. < / allusion to late 70s or early 80s Canada Dry Ginger Ale commercial >
To: DemforBush
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posted on
07/18/2014 8:48:55 PM PDT
by
Argus
To: DemforBush
Seriously, Penn is an embarrassing hambone.
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posted on
07/18/2014 8:49:50 PM PDT
by
Argus
To: DemforBush; bigbob; aposiopetic; Argus
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posted on
07/18/2014 8:54:21 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
To: DemforBush
hard to believe anyone thought that idiot Penn’s version was even in the same universe. Penn sucks.
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posted on
07/18/2014 8:56:08 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: Argus
Focus on Penn Warren. He was the genius, and not only with “All the king’s men.”
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posted on
07/18/2014 9:37:45 PM PDT
by
AmericanVictory
(Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
To: AmericanVictory
True and worth repeating.
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posted on
07/18/2014 10:12:34 PM PDT
by
Argus
To: AmericanVictory
The case could be be made that ATKM is the elusive Great American Novel.
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posted on
07/18/2014 10:14:13 PM PDT
by
Argus
To: DemforBush
I don’t care if it’s Broderick Crawford. Don’t you know you can’t drive a piece of shit like this on the highway!
Sorry I couldn’t resist.
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posted on
07/18/2014 10:24:58 PM PDT
by
Lil Flower
(American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God! ROLL TIDE!!)
To: DemforBush
Did he also try to bail out a boat with a red Solo cup in that movie, too?
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posted on
07/18/2014 10:25:33 PM PDT
by
Catmom
(We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
To: Argus
Too late for the Great American Novel Prize...that one goes to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
To: DemforBush
To: aposiopetic
To: bigbob
"10-4!"
You just gave away your age. For people of a certain age the image of Broderick Crawford on his police car radio giving a terse 10-4 to the person on the other end will remain indelibly etched in their minds. I don't know if Crawford would care that's how most people who watched the show would remember him, but that's the way it goes. 10-4.
p.s. Lately I've watched reruns of the show on a cable network, and I'm amazed at how fast Crawford's character spoke. Also, when they described cars, they never gave the make of a vehicle. It was always a "tan sedan" or whatever.
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posted on
07/19/2014 7:11:49 AM PDT
by
driftless2
(For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
To: driftless2
...
they never gave the make of a vehicle. It was always a "tan sedan" or whatever. No free ads for the automakers!
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posted on
07/19/2014 2:04:19 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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