Jude was Sean Penn's beast of (Jack) Burden in this 2006 film based on a Robert Penn Warren novel
Starring: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, James Gandolfini ... film nor read 
the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1946 Robert Penn Warren novel and with ... Jack 
Burden (Jude Law) is the right-hand man of populist Louisiana Governor ... 
executed in the 1949 film and in the original, brilliant prose of Penn Warren.