All the King's Men 4K 1949 Ultra HD 2160p

Storyline
Jack Burden is a newspaper reporter who first hears of Willie Stark when his editor sends him to Kanoma County to cover the man. What's special about this nobody running for county treasurer? He's supposedly an honest man. Burden discovers this to be true when he sees Stark delivering a speech and having his son pass out handbills, while the local politicians do their best to intimidate him. Willie Stark is honest and brave. He's also a know-nothing hick whose schoolteacher wife has given him what little education he has. Stark loses the race for treasurer, but later makes his way through law school to become an idealistic attorney who fights for what is good. Someone in the governor's employ remembers Stark when the governor needs a patsy to run against him and split the vote of his rival. The fat cats underestimate Stark, but Jack Burden, Stark's biggest supporter, overestimates the man's idealism. To get where he wants to go, Willie Stark is willing to crack a few eggs--including his tough-talking assistant Sadie Burke, Jack's poised and elegant fiancée Anne Stanton, and even Jack Burden himself.

User Review
It's a good movie, but...

In order to fit the book into the framework of the movie, the director had to cut many, in my opinion, essential details of the plot. The tragedy of the main character - Jack Burden - because of this inconsistency was not fully revealed. The mere fact that the judge in the book was actually Jack's father would have already changed the impression closer to the original. The unclear ending, which made the overall meaning change a lot, didn't really impress me. It seems to me that a person who saw the movie without reading the book would think that the main motive of the book is politics, turning Willie into a bribe-taker. But the main thoughts of the book, which Warren writes about in the last chapter, are not about that at all.

If we abstract from the novel, then in general we can say that the movie is great!

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (62.2 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.37:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.37:1

Info Audio

#English: FLAC 1.0
#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (48kHz, 16-bit)
#French: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
#German: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
#Italian: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (48kHz, 16-bit)
#Spanish (Latino): DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (48kHz, 16-bit)
#Spanish: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (48kHz, 16-bit)

Info Subtitles

English SDH, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Iberian), Spanish (Castilian), Spanish (Latin American), Swedish, Thai, Turkish.