Kings Row

The town they talk of in whispers.
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item number:  679VR
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DVD Details

  • Vintage featurette The United States Marine Band
  • Classic cartoon Fox Pop
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Subtitles: English, French and Spanish
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 15, 2006
  • Originally Released: 1942
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 1,068
Rating: 5/5 -- Classic soap opera, maybe all time best; certainly Reagan's best
Kansas City Kansan
Oct 23, 2004
Rating: B -- The film that made the future President Reagan a movie star. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Feb 26, 2008
Rating: A- -- 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. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Dec 20, 2006
Potent, artful cinema. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Feb 27, 2018
Rating: 3/5 -- The film is dark, incredibly so for a mainstream movie before World War II. Full Review
Goatdog's Movies
Feb 28, 2002
Rating: 7/10 -- ...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. Full Review
Movie Metropolis
Aug 6, 2006
Rating: A+ -- Kings Row (1942) is a thought-provoking, emotional, melodramatic, 'Peyton Place'-like film with a turn-of-the-century, small-town setting that revealed evil, cruelty, duplicity and depravity. Full Review
AMC Filmsite
Jan 1, 2000

Description by OLDIES.com:

It's a quaint turn-of-the-century small town of shady streets, swimming holes and the Sunday afternoon clip-clop of horse and buggy. But that peaceful exterior conceals human lives twisted by cruelty, murder and madness. Kings Row is one of Warner Bros.' most distinguished productions, highlighted by an outstanding cast, haunting James Wong Howe cinematography and a somber, emotion-laden Erich Wolfgang Korngold score. Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Betty Field, Claude Rains and Charles Coburn give indelible performances and Ronald Reagan's portrayal of Drake, a cheerful ne'er-do-well shattered by tragedy, has been hailed as his career best. Nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Kings Row is a powerful American saga of dreams, despair and triumph.

Product Description:

Henry Bellaman's controversial, best-selling epic novel about cruelty and mental instability in small-town America is brought to the screen by directing great Sam Wood and top-notch cinematographer James Wong Howe. In KINGS ROW, Paris Mitchell (Robert Cummings) gives up a promising career as a musician in order to study psychiatry. But before he ever gets near the psychoanalytic Mecca of Vienna, Mitchell has plenty of cases to study right in his small midwestern home.

Ronald Reagan turns in the most powerful performance of his career as Mitchell's easygoing companion, Drake McHugh, while knockout Ann Sheridan carries the film with her stellar performance as Randy Monaghan, the girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Both will face needless tragedies perpetrated by human hands in this dour look at the home front during WWII.

The fine script, excellent directing, stunning score, and spectacular performances make KING'S ROW one of the few Golden Era tragedies to stand the test of time.

Description by Warner Home Video:

Kings Row
Mid 1950's TV series.

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Product Info

  • Sales Rank: 119,225
  • UPC: 012569522428
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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