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A capable cast supports Julie Harris, whose moving performance may arguably be the best of her career. -- Booklist<br /><br />Also from LA Theatre Works is Arthur Miller's "All My Sons." Another Audie Award-winner, this production stars Julie Harris, James Farantino and Ayre Gross.

Written and produced in 1947, this is a hard-hitting story, set shortly after World War II, about Joe Keller, who became rich as a manufacturer of substandard war materials in a conflict that took one of his sons and imprisoned a colleague. -- St. Louis Post Dispatch<br /><br />Audie Award Finalist--Audio Publisher's Association --Audio Publisher's Association, APA --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.



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Joe Keller and Herbert Deever, partners in a machine shop during the war, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison while Keller escaped punishment and went on to make a lot of money. In a work of tremendous power, a love affair between Keller's son, Chris, and Ann Deever, Herbert's daughter, the bitterness of George Keller, who returns from the war to find his father in prison and his father's partner free, and the reaction of a son to his father's guilt escalate toward a climax of electrifying intensity.

Winner of the Drama Critics' Award for Best New Play in 1947, All My Sons established Arthur Miller as a leading voice in the American theater. All My Sons introduced, themes that thread through Miller's work as a whole: the relationships between fathers and sons and the conflict between business and personal ethics.
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  • Paperback: 112 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics (October 31, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0141185465
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141185460
  • Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars All Not in the Family, July 25, 2004
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All My Sons is Arthur Miller's first work which gives hint of his future genius. While the plot is strong, it starts slowly. However, the ending makes the play worth reading.

The story tells of partners in a defective machine shop during World War II. Keller escapes punishment for the faulty parts. Herbert Deever is sent to prison. Keller's son Chris intends to marry his deceased brother's love who happens to be Herbert Deever's daughter Anne. Keller's wife Kate is in denial of their son Larry's death. This denial makes her a trademark of Miller's works, an annoying female character. She is overbearing and at times a nag. Thus, conflict is created over Chris and Anne's relationship. The story reaches its climax when the true nature of Larry's death is revealed. While the conclusion is not shocking, it is a fitting end.

Miller has written some great plays and novels. While this is certainly not as good as Death of a Salesman, it is still a solid work.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Accounts and accountability, March 27, 2008
The story line of this family tragedy centres on an entrepreneur's/ manager's bad decision under heavy pressure: deliver a faulty product even when you know it can cause serious problems to the customer? Try to hide the product flaws? Or risk the ruin of the enterprise? And once started on the wrong trajectory, do you accept accountability or do you put the blame on a weaker link in the chain?
This basic dilemma is known to everybody from politics to business life.
Miller wrote this play after WW2, and his example of the problem are faulty cylinder heads delivered to the airforce under time pressure.
The man who did it compounded his crime by dodging truth and letting another man go to jail.
The families of both men are heavily interrelated and as it turns out, the damage is unreparable. Not just to the crashed pilots, but also to sons and daughters.
Reading the play now gives me a feeling of meeting a stereotype, but then, was the theme really as well explored at the time as it seems now? Quite possibly Miller was a pioneer in it, I don't know. I give only 4 stars because the play is a bit over-didactic.
I have not researched this, but I seem to remember that Miller got some flack from the McCarthy-committee for this play. Must have looked awfully un-American apparently, to explore questions of accountability. Certainly not a tradition in presidential circles.
P.S. I read an old interview with Miller where he says that he got 'invited' to the committee only because the guys were hoping for a photo shooting with Marilyn.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad for someone's first play, May 6, 2000
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As many may know, All My Sons was Miller's first play. In it he supplies enough drama to leave you in tears. The struggle of a family to pull back together after a great crime has been comitted is at the heart of the matter. Joe Keller chooses to ignore his responsibility to the loss of 121 American pilots in WWII, seeing as to how he approved the shipping of deffective plane engine cylinders. After what seems to everyone else as pulling a fast one, Joe basically gets away with murder and tries to pretend it never happened. His neighbors know, his old business partners know, and more importantly, his family knows. The question to ask yourself when you read this magnificent play is: Who would I relate to? Would I try to ignore my responsibilities like Joe? Or would I struggle to confront my father like Chris? If you've read other reviews about this play and you haven't read it yet, I do apologize for others giving away the ending. In case this is the only review you've read, I'll tell you this: Read the play already and don't read any reviews after this one. It's not that they are bad; it's just that you run the risk of the end being revealed, and then what would be the point? The end is what will captivate your heart.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Arthur Miller's First Great Success: Darkness Under The American Dream
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Published 15 months ago by Gary F. Taylor

5.0 out of 5 stars The voice of conscience, morality, and idealism
The late Lord Bertrand Russell once said, "Actions have consequences." Arthur Miller makes it clear: Bad actions have bad consequences in his early play, "All My Sons. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Betrayal and Denial
Betrayal and denial run rampant through Arthur Miller's play, All My Sons. This play brings to light the effects of war profiteering on those who participated in it, as well as... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A conflicting emotional drama
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5.0 out of 5 stars Joins the ranks of The Crucible and Death of a Salesman
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5.0 out of 5 stars "...they were all my sons. "
"...there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it."
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4.0 out of 5 stars War is not healthy for children and other living things.....
Chris:But I'm like everyone else now. I'm practical now. You made me practical.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Fine
I was not that moved by the play itself, but it is written very well. Plot is about indirect murder & the ways in which each of the guilty deal with their part in it. Read more
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