Biography Drama. Director Thomas Schlamme. Paul Monash. Top credits Director Thomas Schlamme. See more at IMDbPro. Photos 6. Top cast Edit. John Goodman Huey P. Bob Gunton Franklin D. Roosevelt as Franklin D. Hoyt Axton Huey P. Long, Sr. Joe Alaskey Kingfish as Kingfish voice.
Walter Breaux Warren as Warren. Ed Bruce Gov. Sanders as Gov. Thomas Schlamme. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Some called him a hero. Some called him the most dangerous man in America. Add content advisory.
Did you know Edit. Trivia This film marks the first and only time that renowned actor John Goodman who also played Huey Long in this film had received a producing credit. The Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia is clearly visible on the backs of the legislators' desk chairs.
Quotes Huey P. User reviews 6 Review. Top review. The Kingfish of Louisiana. In current times that have a populist tone to them, the likes of which we've not seen since the Depression Thirties, a film about Huey P Long is good thing to view. It would be instructive to read and learn about Long and what he did in Louisiana it could happen again. For reading I recommend T. Harry Williams Pulitizer Prize winning biography of Long which I'm sure was the basis for a lot of this film, credited or not.
Long organized a political machine second to none in this country's history. The state of Louisiana was a personal fiefdom that he ruled over like a medieval duke. Long the political persona. A brief digression: On Nov. Furthermore, when a man is in politics, he almost always winds up being repudiated.
The future U. Russell Long and the great-grandson of Sens. Huey Long, he reminded me, was only 34 years old when he became the 40th governor of Louisiana, an improbably young age that seems even more remarkable when one considers that Long had run a credible campaign for governor four years prior.
Warmoth was still alive when Long took the oath of office 60 years later. More fundamentally, any understanding of Huey P. Long must begin with an understanding of the time in which he emerged as a political force, something that Mosely explained in detail during a Huey Long symposium in As we all adjust to the world reshaped by a global pandemic, we cannot afford to lose our storytellers and muckrakers; their jobs now are both more in need than any time in the past half-century and yet also more endangered by a rattled economy than ever before.
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Forgot your password? Get help. Password recovery. Bayou Brief. Huey P. Image credit: Lamar White, Jr. Above all, he gave the Southern masses hope.
He did some foolish things and some wrong things. He said some things that he should not have said and some that he did not believe. Patronage will not change it. Fear will not change it. It cannot be changed while people suffer.
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