A few behind the scenes things are worth mentioning, not the least of which director Irving Reis, whose orchestration of this and several other films of the period showed great potential. He framed his business partner for a crime and engineered his own exoneration. Written by Now, his son is about to marry the partner's daughter, the affair is revisited, and his lie of a life is unraveled. In All My Sons, Arthur Miller creates a post-war American family in a tragic downfall of lies, greed, love, and loss, and demands its audience examine their own social responsibilities to all the sons of American wars. Now, his son is about to marry the partner's daughter, the … ALL MY SONS a play in three acts by Arthur Miller Characters: Joe Keller (Keller) Kate Keller (Mother) Chris Keller Ann Deever George Deever Dr. Jim Bayliss (Jim) Sue Bayliss Frank Lubey Lydia Lubey Bert Act One The back yard of the Keller home in the outskirts of an American town. Quotes from Arthur Miller's All My Sons. Arrogant, ruthless, and dynamic in those moments when his 'business' is at stake, he is also tender and considerate in the presence of those he loves ... As the right-thinking son of this corrupt man, Burt Lancaster is surprisingly good and, although he appears a bit dim-witted at times, that is not implausible. Mady Christians, who plays Robinson's foreign-born wife, was blacklisted shortly after the film came about. This one takes place in 1947, right after the war. Irving Reis' direction is slightly stilted in some scenes but generally matches the tempo of a fluid script". As indicated in the above paragraphs of the essay, “All My Sons” was written at the The supporting cast features Louisa Horton, Mady Christians, Howard Duff, Arlene Francis, and Harry Morgan.[2]. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. Reportedly Burt Lancaster postponed his own first production, Kiss the Blood off My Hands in order to take the role of Chris, an ex-GI who initially idolizes his father, not knowing what he has done. With an underlying theme of guilt and responsibility, the drama centres on Joe Keller, a manufacturer of war materials, whose substandard and defective airplane parts cause the death of his own son and other fliers during World War II. Taschenbuch. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Armie Hammer, Jessie Mueller Among Large Broadway Cast Of Tracy Letts’ ‘The Minutes’; Premiere Set, Robert Evans Bio-Drama Stays In The Broadway Picture…Hopefully. [4], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=All_My_Sons_(film)&oldid=1019126124, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 21 April 2021, at 17:22. Es wird kein Kindle Gerät benötigt. Joe Keller is sorry to hear son Chris plans to wed Ann Deever and move to Chicago, for he hoped Chris would someday take over the manufacturing business Joe built from the ground up. Arthur Miller | 1947 "I think, to him, they were all my sons. … Another son of the Kellers is in the Army air corps, missing in action and presumed dead. With Jenna Coleman, Bill Pullman, Sally Field, Colin Morgan. Chris strikes his father in anger at hearing this. At the play’s opening, the scene is one of prosperous comfort. Arthur Miller’s scathing portrait of American society is revived here by director Howard Davies with an intricate, naturalistic set and detailed performances. The plot is worth going into only briefly, and concerns a morally corrupt though not innately bad manufacturer of aircraft parts whose cost-cutting was responsible for the crashing of several planes during the then recent Second World War. Where Annie grew up academic runs into an old-flame and into trouble with police... 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