All My Sons (1948)

Universal International presents EDWARD G. ROBINSON… Does there exist any better way to kickstart your movie, straight gunning right into fifth gear? If there is, I don’t know her. The little walking fusebox with a face like a busted cat-fish has the gift of the…

Cormac 👑

Often considered a film noir, Irving Reis' 1948 adaptation of Arthur Miller's 1946 play All My Sons is really just a solid melodrama with some occasional film noir aesthetics tossed in to get it over the hump. It stars Edward G. Robinson as Joe Keller, a well-off patriarch…

mumblecorgi

Based on an Arthur Miller play, this complex film dealing with responsibility and guilt would probably be a masterpiece if directed by... say Kazan, or one of those other melodramatic boys. It had the potential to be even more intense. It's still very good, although I find…

Anna Imhof 🌸

A solid version of a classic early Arthur Miller play concerning a plant owner (Edward G. Robinson) who may have shipped dodgy parts to the army during World War Two. That potential scandal casts a pall over the romance between his son (somewhat improbably Burt Lancaster,…

Rick Burin

Oh my God!  What was that? I thought that this movie was a little boring but thank god I wrong about that,because All my sons is the most pure definition of masterpiece. The acting is so good, and the writing it’s so perfect. I just loved it. added to: 2020 ranked

mariana

Eddie G hardly ever gave a bad performance and it is he who keeps All My Sons compulsively watchable. You can easily discern the tweaks that have been made (such as the coda) to make Arthur Miller's play more digestible for the masses but they barely detract from the…

Fint

All My Sons: So for literary class, we read the play and watched this movie throughout the week. I will be judging the film while complementing the writing (originating from the play) as well. After the film finished, my friend said “they don’t make movies as good as this…

OE Reviews

Nudging this up a bit on this rewatch - Edward G Robinson was born to play Joe Keller, who made a decision which brings everything falling down on his family and himself. It is a towering performance, beautifully supported by Burt Lancaster as his son Chris and Mady…

loureviews

"I wear my pants and she beats me with the belt." Much like Burt Lancaster going toe-to-toe with Kirk Douglas in I Walk Alone (1947), he channels that into his performance in All My Sons (1948). Edward G. Robinson drives the film, along with the dread and sorrow of the…

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