all my son be on broadway in 1947 and star ed begley sr. and arthur kennedy . it be a timely play and a story of wartime corruption have start to surface . consider anticapitalist and it be suspect of be pro communist and so the film version be somewhat modify from the play . it star edward g. robinson and burt lancaster and mady christian and howard duff and louisa horton and and arlene francis . edward g. robinson play joe and a man who work hard to build his factory along with his partner and herbert deever . during the war and deever be put on trial and find guilty of ship cylinder from the factory that he know be defective and which and when put into plane and cause the death of many war pilot . though deever claim that joe know about the shipment and he wasn not believe joe be home sick at the time the cylinder be send . though the cloud remain over joe and his business stay highly successful and and he enjoy a good place in the community . his son and chris and however and come home and announces that he want to marry deever daughter ann who have be engage to chris brother larry and lose during the war and presume dead . this fact have never be accept by chris and larry mother ( christian ) and and joe be anxious that chris put aside his idea of marry ann . then ann attorney brother call her from the prison where their father be incarcerate . he believe joe be guilty and want to reopen the case . this be a very well act film that suffer from the miscasting of edward g. robinson . robinson be a magnificent actor but be so obviously guilty and one wonder how he escape prosecution and especially when one see the sincerity of herbert deever when chris visit him in prison . the broadway star and ed begley sr. and have a friendly face and a good deal of warmth while robinson be scrappy and defensive and plus he look like a thug . it be more of a spencer tracy role it call for a more lovable man that you want to believe and doubt to the contrary . mady christian and who be blacklist and be very sympathetic a joe wife . burt lancaster insist on this role while early on and he saw a career a a hunk begin to take form and fight it . this lead to interesting part for him later on and and he make a great transition to character actor later in life . one can certainly understand the temptation to cast him a a hunk and with his broad shoulder and great build . lancaster be the whole matinée idol package and right down to his full lip . apparently the actor know how handsome he be and be very competitive with other star of that era and such a tony curtis and and like curtis and he want more than romantic lead . despite it flaw and all my son be a strong drama about a son break away from his father and the strength of denial and the importance of penance for one act and of move on . a chinese woman who saw the crucible be certain that arthur miller have be in prison in china and so universal be the language of that play . that be miller gift and the ability to tell a deeply human story that and politics and social change aside and can still resonate today .