Kings Row
Kings Row is a 1942 film starring Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan and Betty Field that tells a story of young people growing up in a small American town at the turn of the twentieth century. The picture was directed by Sam Wood. The film was adapted by Casey Robinson from a best-selling 1940 novel of the same name by Henry Bellamann. The musical score was composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and the cinematographer was James Wong Howe. The supporting cast features Charles Coburn, Claude Rains, Judith Anderson and Maria Ouspenskaya.
Plot
In the small midwestern town of Kings Row, in 1890, five children know, and play with, each other: Parris Mitchell, a polite, clever little boy who lives with his grandmother; pretty blonde Cassandra Tower, daughter of the secretive Dr. Alexander Tower and a mother that is seen only through the upstairs window; the orphaned but wealthy and fun-loving Drake McHugh who is best friends with Parris; Louise Gordon, daughter of the town physician Dr. Henry Gordon; and the tomboy Randy Monaghan, from the "wrong side of the tracks", whose father, Tom, is a railroad worker.
Cast
- Ann E. Todd
- Ann Sheridan
- Betty Field
- Charles Coburn
- Claude Rains
- Emory Parnell
- Ernest Cossart
- Frank Mayo
- Fred Kelsey
- Hank Mann
- Harry Davenport
- Ilka Grüning
- Jack Mower
- Judith Anderson
- Kaaren Verne
- Ludwig Stössel
- Maria Ouspenskaya
- Minor Watson
- Nancy Coleman
- Robert Cummings
- Ronald Reagan
- Scotty Beckett
- Walter Baldwin
More details
| author | Casey Robinson |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Vienna |
| director | Sam Wood |
| editor | Ralph Dawson |
| genre | drama historical |
| keywords | beg best friend build childhood home confine court force injured kill little boy medical school mental institution morning nothing old friend one night orphan poison railroad track railroad worker tomboy train trust fund walk want wrong side of the tracks |
| musicBy | Erich Wolfgang Korngold |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Picture |
| producer | Hal B. Wallis |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |