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- Journalist who narrates the film's events. Answer: Jack Burden. Arthur Penn Warren's book actually focused on the character of Jack Burden, and his growing disillusionment with the world of politics, but the movie shifts the focus, and makes him a narrator whose involvement in the events provides a reason for the exposition.
- Populist politician whose career is the film's focus. Answer: Willie Stark. The novel is a study of the misuse of power by a corrupt demagogue. The movie, however, shows him as an idealist who is corrupted by power.
- Romantically involved with both central male characters. Answer: Anne Stanton. We first meet Anne Stanton (played by Joanne Dru) early in the film, when Jack returns to his home at Burden's Landing, where he and she discuss their differing attitudes to his career.
- Campaign assistant and mistress of the central character. Answer: Sadie Burke. Sadie Burke (portrayed by Mercedes McCambridge, who won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for the role) is initially presented as a calculating and cynical political assistant, who explains to Willie how he is being manipulated in his first attempt to be elected governor.
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