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Kings Row Overview:

Kings Row (1942) was a Drama - Mystery Film directed by Sam Wood and produced by Hal B. Wallis and David Lewis.

Academy Awards 1942 --- Ceremony Number 15 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best CinematographyJames Wong HoweNominated
Best DirectorSam WoodNominated
Best PictureWarner Bros.Nominated
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Kings Row (1942)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Sep 4, 2018 From 4 Star Films

Kings Row is apparently a good place to live. The billboard in town says as much. It’s the goings-on in the community that tells a different story — providing a conflicting more subversive view of small-town America. The story starts out with 5 children. It feels like we hardly get t... Read full article

Classic Films in Focus: KINGS ROW (1942)

By Jennifer Garlen on Sep 28, 2017 From Virtual Virago

Mixed reviews are often the hardest ones to write, and I have mixed feelings about Kings Row (1942), the Sam Wood drama adapted from the controversial novel by Henry Bellamann. I think, ultimately, the film is useful as an example of the ways the Hays Code could undermine the purpose of an artistic ... Read full article

Classic Films in Focus: KINGS ROW (1942)

By Jennifer Garlen on Sep 28, 2017 From Virtual Virago

Mixed reviews are often the hardest ones to write, and I have mixed feelings about Kings Row (1942), the Sam Wood drama adapted from the controversial novel by Henry Bellamann. I think, ultimately, the film is useful as an example of the ways the Hays Code could undermine the purpose of an artistic ... Read full article

Kings Row (1942)

By Beatrice on Aug 21, 2014 From Flickers in Time

King’s Row Directed by Sam Wood Written by Casey Robinson from the novel by Henry Bellamann 1942/USA Warner Bros. First viewing/Netflix rental Ronald Reagan is the best thing about this film.  It’s another highly-rated drama that I wish I liked more that I do. The story takes place in... Read full article

Kings Row (1942)

By Angela on Mar 23, 2011 From Hollywood Revue

Back at the turn of the last century, Kings Row was thought to be a picture-perfect small town.  But just like Peyton Place and Twin Peaks, Kings Row has got a very dark side.  The movie begins in 1890 when all the main characters are just children.  Parris Mitchell (Robert Cummings) and Drake Mc... Read full article

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Kings Row Quotes:

Madame Marie von Eln: I only know that you have to judge people by what you find them to be and not by what other people say they are.
Drake McHugh, as a boy: [to Parris, as Dr. Gordon operates on a friend's father] Let's get out of here! I never heard a grown man scream and holler like this before, did you?
Dr. Alexander Q. Tower: Well, a little loneliness won't hurt you to speak of... you get used to it.
Dr. Alexander Q. Tower: Oh, have you read this?
Parris Mitchell: Yes, sir. I didn't understand it entirely, I'm afraid.
Dr. Alexander Q. Tower: Well, it's a new field. They've even a new word for it: psychiatry.
Parris Mitchell: It's something I never thought about. I mean, for a doctor to want to cure diseases of people's minds instead of their bodies. I suppose it's a pretty big field, sir.
Dr. Alexander Q. Tower: Maybe too big. Maybe a hundred years off.
Dr. Alexander Q. Tower: Well, Mitchell, I don't know at all your approach to medicine. Perhaps you regard it as an opportunity to become one of those bedside manners with a list of proper pills to give the patient - particularly when you don't know what is the matter with him. Or perhaps your aim is to become an eminent carpenter with a knife and a chisel and a saw. Perhaps even you'll flow over with the nobility of relieving humanity's suffering. I'll tell you my approach to medicine! It is a game in which man pits his brains against the forces of destruction and disease. In the beginning I don't expect you to participate in the game. You'll only listen and accept. You will study and you will make notes and you will memorize... and you will do all this only because I tell you to.
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Kings Row Facts
Ronald Reagan titled his 1965 autobiography after his biggest line in the film version of Kings Row: "Where's the rest of me?"
Phillip Reed, Rex Downing and Tyrone Power were all considered for the role of Parris.
The city depicted in the film is based on the actual Mid-Missouri town of Fulton, book writer Henry Bellamann's home.
20th Century Fox attempted to buy the book's rights to turn it into a vehicle for Henry Fonda.
Among the actresses considered for the part of 'Cassandra', were Katharine Hepburn, Adele Longmire, Marsha Hunt, Laraine Day, Susan Peters, Joan Leslie, Gene Tierney and Priscilla Lane.
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