Kings Row
1942, Drama, 2h 7m
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Randy Monaghan
Drake McHugh
Parris Mitchell
Cassandra "Cassie" Tower
Dr. Alexander Q. Tower
Mrs. Harriet Gordon
Critic Reviews for Kings Row
All Critics (16) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (16)
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Potent, artful cinema.
February 27, 2018 | Full Review… -
While several of the lesser ideas, such as pity and revenge, aren't demonstrated with as much tact, the sweeping melodrama is still a winning formula.
August 13, 2020 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review… -
A film of very high quality that you won't easily forget. [Full Review in Spanish]
September 12, 2019 | Full Review… -
The film that made the future President Reagan a movie star.
February 26, 2008 | Rating: B | Full Review… -
Sam Wood's Oscar-nominated small-town tale is one of the darkest melodramas Hollywood made in the 1940s, full of neurotic personalities and perverse secrets.
December 19, 2006 | Rating: A- | Full Review… -
...while episodic and sentimental and filled with all kinds of unlikely turns of events, there is no denying the characters are endearing and the ending uplifting.
August 6, 2006 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Kings Row
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Nov 15, 2013Reagan's leap to stardom through this? Well its okay. It's a bit too much like a soap opera but we have passable acting with neurotic folks throughout.John B Super Reviewer
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Jan 13, 2013Based on a dark, soapy bestselling novel, this is definitely one of Ronald Reagan's best performances, if not THE best. Like "Peyton Place", the original novel focused on the dark secrets underlying an outwardly nice, moral, family-oriented town. Unfortunately, unlike "Peyton Place," the subject matter had to be way watered down to get past the censors at the time this was made, leaving one of the key storylines - a doctor's incestuous relationship with his daughter - so vague that the first time I saw this film prior to reading the book, I didn't understand what was going on with that subplot. The other weird thing about this movie is that Kings Row manages to have not one, but TWO messed-up doctors: one's the aforementioned incest committer (played by Claude Rains) and the other (played by Charles Coburn) is a sadist who enjoys amputating limbs and wreaking vengeance on patients he doesn't like. Reagan plays "Drake", a dashing rich party-boy who falls victim to the sadistic doc but then manages to have a decent life thanks to the tender mercies of his childhood friend "Randy" (Ann Sheridan), the girl literally from the wrong side of the tracks. I thought Reagan and Sheridan pretty much carried the film, with the other main part, their friend "Parris" (Robert Cummings) finishing a very distant third. As someone else noted, the amputation theme was timely due to WWII even though this book is set in an earlier era. A decent soap opera for its time, but not quite as good as the book due to all the controversial (for then) issues that had to be presented very obliquely or left out entirely.. 5 StarsBruce B Super Reviewer
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Mar 18, 2008Good film could have been great with better male leads, the female stars are excellent though.jay n Super Reviewer
Kings Row Quotes
| Drake McHugh: | Where's the rest of me? |
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