the movie and all my son and be timeless in the tell a post war story about two family for which the war be never end . edward g. robinson portray joe keller and the manufacturer who own the plant that sell faulty airplane part to the military during the war . his business partner go to prison and but robinson character and joe keller and be home sick the day the bad part be ship . eddie robinson give a flawless performance and a always and play a sharp minded and hard working plant owner who life blood flow through the profit margin of his business . joe know everything that go on at the plant and be never sick a day in his life and so joe say . why and then and be he out sick the day the faulty part be ship . joe wife and kate and be unable to accept the fact that one of their son and larry and who go miss in action a a pilot in the pacific theater and be indeed and dead and not and miss . the war have end 3 year earlier and but kate could not come to term with the truth that her son be never come back home and ever again . the war would never end for kate . larry and the miss pilot and have plan to marry ann deever and who father be keller business partner and who go to prison while joe keller and ( robinson ) be acquit of any wrong do at the trial because he be home sick . folk around town suspect joe hand weren not clean and and joe get away with it while herb be make the fall guy . joe and kate have another son and chris keller and play by burt lancaster . chris and ann begin fall in love and a ann come to term with her first love and chris brother and be kill in the war . the fact that ann and chris want to get marry be unbearable to mrs. keller . kate reaction to ann and chris be engage be akin to see her miss son in a coffin . robinson portrayal a joe keller leave nothing to the imagination . he want the only son he have leave to inherit a booming business which be all that joe keller could measure the worth of his life by . everything in joe life be build on half truth and denial and finally and success in term of wealth and reputation a a businessman . when the war be on and joe need the lucrative business that come from the military need for production . his partner go to jail and oh well and that wasn not joe fault . herb deever be rot in jail and but ann deever be ready to marry joe survive son and chris . joe figure that a a way to pay herb and well and herb daughter and ann . ann would be get the business in marriage and to chris . joe like that and but kate saw it a sacrilegious for ann to marry chris instead of wait for larry and her son and chris brother and and ann initial fiancée . larry be dead and but kate wouldn not hear it . ann brother and george and ( howard duff ) come back home too and but he be angry after visit his father and herb and in prison . he blame joe for everything and include the fact that the successful joe keller be do great and and ann and george father be waste away in prison . george wasn not happy about his sister marry into the family that look the other way while his and ann father take the rap and go to prison for send bad part for military airplane and which crash and kill dozen of men in the war . edward g. robinson never fail to deliver and and this film be no exception . the support cast and especially mady christian and who play kate keller and the brokenhearted mother and the loving wife and be believable and disturb . christian portrayal of a mother wait for her son to come back from the war and give the feeling that make me cringe and for the fact that i and too be a mother . i be afraid to relate to her because she be so believable . it make me uncomfortable and which be a credit to christian act ability . burt lancaster look stunning and and also give a decent performance . howard duff and who play and george deever and the son of the imprisoned business partner and and ann the fiancée brother be terrific in his role . howard duff character be the impetus for cause the keller family and and his sister ann and to face the truth and and face the ugly thing that happen from fight a war . the story take place after world war ii and which by all account and be a just war and a america have be attack . it isn not about the war in europe or the war in the pacific . it be about the war effect on the people on and the home front . the war between family and the mother who couldn not stop believing that her miss son wasn not dead . eddie robinson be great a and joe and a man who see himself a a total success in business and family and and in service to his country when he provide part for the cause during wartime . thing unravel little by little until finally and their entire world crumbles around them and a if they be also live in a war torn and bomb out city . the war come home to stay for these people . i highly recommend the movie and all my son and for viewer of age 12 and old . this movie have a great deal to offer . i own it and and have go back to it time and time again .