All My Sons

All My Sons

1948 · 94 min · EN · NR · 5.9 (22 votes)
Dir. Irving Reis · Starring Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians, Louisa Horton, Howard Duff, Frank Conroy · Music Leith Stevens
Drama

During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when Joe's son plans to marry Deever's daughter.

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A heavy, suffocating atmosphere permeates this drama. Secrets fester and guilt gnaws as a family grapples with the devastating consequences of past actions. The tension builds relentlessly towards an inevitable, tragic reckoning.

tensemelancholicsomberanxioussteadyclassic Hollywood dramastage adaptationintimate character studyguiltfamily secretspost-war disillusionmentresponsibility
guiltpost world war ii
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