All My Sons: contemporary films

Which films might Arthur Miller's audience have seen, before the first production of All My Sons?

In the exam, you will be rewarded for integrating contextual knowledge into your reading of the play; this includes an informed sense of the kind of audience the playwrights were writing for.

Click on the links below to watch YouTube clips from films which the first audiences for All My Sons might well have seen.

• The Killers (1946)
  film noir; crime thriller, low life; begins with the dark shadow of post-war US
• Begin the Beguine (1940)
  Broadway musical
• Trailer for Heaven can wait (1943)
  high drama, high society
• The Iceman Cometh (1946)
  Written by Eugene O'Neill in 1939; Al Pacino recites Hickey's big speech