Factual error: When Jack is leaving Adam Stanton's apartment, he walks out into an alley. Modern HVAC equipment can be seen mounted on the buildings above him. (01:17:45)
All the King's Men (1949)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Robert Rossen
Starring: Broderick Crawford, Joanne Dru, John Derek, John Ireland
Genres: Drama
Jack Burden decides to aid Willie Stark in exposing a long buried scandal that implicates Judge Irwin at its central core, unless Irwin ceases to block Willie's pollitical ambitions. Irwin shoots himself over this and Jack learns from his mother that Irwin was Jack's biological father. Tiny Duffy amongst others manipulates Adam Stanton into convincing him that Willie has set him up for fraud charges and a prison term. Incensed over this Adam opens fire on Willie at the Louisiana State Capitol, himself fatally shot by Sugar Boy in the process. Both collapse and die on the seal of the countries State Capitol.
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Jack Burden: Anne, Burden's Landing is a place on the Moon. It isn't real. It doesn't exist. It's me pretending to live on what I earn. It's my mother trying to keep herself young and drinking herself old. It's you and Adam living in this house as though your father were still alive. It's an old man like the judge dreaming of the past.
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