Talk:All the King's Men

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Also produced as an oft revived off-Broadway play. --OGRastamon 01:48, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Original version of the book 2 Seperating Movie and Book? 3 Time? 4 Other film with same title

[edit] Original version of the book

Should there be some mention here of Warren's original version of the book--the so-called "Restored Edition"--in which the main character's name is Willie Talos? There is little significant difference in plot, but historically I think it matters.--Ramon omar 23:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree. The first version I had exposure to was the "Restored Edition"; I had until now only known the main character as "Willie Talos".

Perhaps someone would care to add a few bits of information concerning the differences between the original and the restored edition, and the reason behind it? --212.202.184.238 18:14, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Seperating Movie and Book?

Do we think there should be seperate articles for the movie and book versions, or perhaps combing the two movies into one page, it seems odd for the three of them to be seperate in the manner they are.

As a person who has read the book and saw the 40's version and will see the new version, I think the novel should be seperate from the movies. The book is drastically different and stands on merit of it's own. Yanksox 03:26, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Time?

The narrator explicitly indicates that the novel has to do with time and man's relation to time.

There ought perhaps to be some indication of this in the same section in which Anne Stanton and the Twitch are mentioned.

I went ahead and edited it.

-Ross Hunt

[edit] Other film with same title

There was a TV film in 1999 with the same title but a different subject - see [[Royal Norfolk Regiment WW1 history.GraemeLeggett 12:15, 6 April 2006 (UTC)