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18 April 1942 (USA)
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Perfect Players . . . in the 4 Star Best-Seller Story now becomes your Top Screen Triumph! . . . in Kings Row more
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The dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood at the turn-of-the-century. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 3 Oscars.
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Where's The Rest of Me?
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Ann Sheridan | ... | Randy Monaghan |
 | Robert Cummings | ... | Parris Mitchell |
 | Ronald Reagan | ... | Drake McHugh |
 | Betty Field | ... | Cassandra Tower |
| Charles Coburn | ... | Dr. Henry Gordon |
 | Claude Rains | ... | Dr. Alexander Tower |
| Judith Anderson | ... | Mrs. Harriet Gordon |
| Nancy Coleman | ... | Louise Gordon |
| Kaaren Verne | ... | Elise Sandor |
| Maria Ouspenskaya | ... | Madame von Eln |
| Harry Davenport | ... | Colonel Skeffington |
| Ernest Cossart | ... | Pa Monaghan |
| Ilka Grüning | ... | Anna (as Ilka Gruning) |
| Pat Moriarity | ... | Tod Monaghan |
| Minor Watson | ... | Sam Winters |
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127 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Australia:PG (TV rating) |
USA:Approved (certificate #7337) |
Canada:PG (video rating) |
Australia:G |
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold had written the scores for a number of important movies for Warners, including The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939). Korngold was told he was to write a score for a new picture, 'Kings Row'. According to Brendan Carroll in his biography of Korngold, the composer, thinking this was another royal story, set about writing the celebrated fanfare theme of the picture. Despite the wrong assumption, Korngold decided to keep and develop the theme into what has become a classic score.
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Revealing mistakes: When Randy sends Parris a letter in Europe, the return address reads "Kings Row, USA" with no street address or state mentioned.
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Col. Skeffington:
[referring to Drake] Funny thing, I sort of like that boy. Bold as brass, but he's the only young man in town beside Parris Mitchell who has grace enough to say 'sir' to his elders.
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Referenced in Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano (1983) (TV)
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My Gal Is a High-Born Lady
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For those who made fun of President Reagan's movie career by always citing "Bedtime for Bonzo" and laughing may be surprised if they take the time to watch "Kings Row." Even "Bedtime for Bonzo" is not as bad as those who have never seen it think it is, because of the ridiculous title. The former sports announcer plays Drake McHugh as well or better than any other Hollywood actor of the period could have. He stands tall among an extremely talented group of actors, including several others who have also been underrated and never received their due by the Hollywood establishment, especially Bob Cummings and Ann Sheridan. There's also Judith Anderson of "Rebecca" fame; Claude Rains who first made a name for himself in a part were he was invisible through most of the film; Charles Coburn, the grand old man of 40's cinema, playing against type in "Kings Row" as not such a grand old man; Maria Ouspenskaya in a non-horror role; and Betty Field shines as the tortured soul, Cassie.
Sam Wood's magnificent direction plus the acting keep the story from slipping into soap opera melodrama. True heart-rending sentiment rather than sappy sentimentality emerges from the social and economic conflicts that mix with human kindness and cruelty in small-town America at the turn of the last century. Though there is an element of nostalgia for a vanishing America, it never becomes petty or commonplace.