Kings Row

Kings Row was bought by Hal Wallis, then the number two man at WB, Warner Brothers. As there was often trades made between studios for leading actors and actresses, Wallis originally wanted Tyrone Power to play Drake, and Henry Fonda... Full review

Does anyone have any information about when the wonderful film directed by Sam Wood and titled Kings Row (1942) will be available on DVD? How can we promote the DVD version of fine films that are forgotten by many as... Full review

This is a wonderful film with one of the greatest musical scores Hollywood ever produced. Eric Wolfgang Korngold is a splendid composer, and this may be his best film score. And the star cast makes the film historically very important.... Full review

Kings Row in my opinion is one of the greatest motion pictures ever made. Why it wasn't it on the American Film Institutes 100 films of all time is beyond me and another weird thing why wasn't its star the... Full review

"Kings Row" is truly a gem. The acting, photography,direction, script, and memorable score are outstanding. A number of reviewers have criticized Robert Cummings as not being up to the role of Parris Michell. I have to disagree. His earnestness and... Full review

KING'S ROW, based on Henry Bellamann's huge, "unfilmable" novel, served as a showcase for many of Warner Brothers' rising stars of 1942, and has achieved 'classic' status over the years. It provided Ronald Reagan with his finest performance (he even... Full review

An interesting TV documentary on the composer Korngold drew me back to "Kings Row" Although I don't find his scores as arresting as those of Raksin or as immediately identifiable as Rozsa or Herrmann (Korngold's seem to be in a... Full review

One of the best remembered films of the 40's, "King's Row" has gotten more attention because of Ronald Reagen's "Where's the rest of me?" line than anything else in the film. Sixty years later, "King's Row" as a film holds... Full review

Kings Row is perhaps the granddaddy of all small-town epics--a strong story line, an excellent cast and all of it punctuated by one of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's most melodious background scores. Considering this was done in the early '40s, the... Full review

I have never been to America, but this movie seems so familiar. It reminds me so much of the apartment building I grew up in Calcutta. Maybe because people everywhere are essentially the same, or maybe because every character in... Full review

Yes, it's 1942's "Kings Row," one of the best soapy melodramas ever to come out of Hollywood. Kings Row" takes us beneath the placid, idyllic setting of a small, fictional American town around the turn of the twentieth century and shows us the sordid underbelly of "respectable" society. ... Full Review

As I say, the movie is remarkably effective.....although, to be honest, it is Reagan as the playboy Drake who steals the show..... ... Full Review

Kings Row is prime material for rediscovery by a new generation. A group of spirited kids grow up in Kings Row, a town dominated by 'respectable' families. Critics in 1942 were surprised when the "lightweight" Reagan and Sheridan did so well. ... Full Review

Regrettably, there's not one for "The Gipper" on the Kings Row DVD. Some of the greatest, behind-the-scenes artists of Hollywood's "golden era"Howe, composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and production designer William Cameron Menziesbring their considerable talents to Kings Row , which unfolds with dramatic efficiency under the assured direction of Oscar nominee Wood ( The Pride of the Yankees ). ... Full Review

Censor Breen had promised that "decent people everywhere" would condemn the picture.....It does not paint a pretty picture..... ... Full Review

Mr. Eliot earned an M.F.A. and "pursued" (as his author's note says) a doctorate in film history at Columbia University 's School of the Arts. ... Full Article

THE late former president was frequently derided as an actor because he played opposite a chimp in "Bedtime for Bonzo" and gave a less than stellar performance in the dreadful "Hellcats of the Navy." ... Full Article

A seemingly quiet Midwestern town is the hiding place for a number of sordid secrets in this melodrama based on Henry Bellamann's best-selling novel. Parris Mitchell (Scotty Beckett) is a young boy growing up in the town of King's Row,... ... Full Article

Turner Classic Movies said Monday it plans to pay tribute to late actor and former U.S. President Ronald Reagan next month. Reagan's daughter, Patti Davis, has agreed to join TCM host Robert Osborne for the monthlong festival and is expected... ... Full Article

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. ... Full Article