- Kings Row
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name = Kings Row
image_size=150px
imdb_id = 0034946
writer =Henry Bellamann (novel)Casey Robinson
starring =Ann Sheridan Robert Cummings Ronald Reagan Betty Field Charles Coburn Claude Rains Judith Anderson Maria Ouspenskaya
director =Sam Wood
producer =
distributor =
released =February 2 ,1942
runtime = 127 min
language = English
budget ="Kings Row" is a 1942 film which tells the story of a group of youths who grow up leading supposedly idyllic lives in a small town with disturbing secrets. It stars
Ann Sheridan ,Robert Cummings ,Ronald Reagan ,Betty Field ,Charles Coburn andClaude Rains .The movie was adapted by
Casey Robinson from the 1940 novel "Kings Row" byHenry Bellamann . It was directed bySam Wood .It was nominated for
Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (James Wong Howe ), Best Director and Best Picture. In the film, Ronald Reagan's character, Drake McHugh, has both legs amputated by a sadistic surgeon who disapproved of his daughter's obsession with Drake; when he wakes from anesthesia, he utters the line, "Where's the rest of me?" Reagan used that line as the title of his 1965 autobiography. Reagan, along with many film critics, considered "Kings Row" to be his best movie.The original novel was based on Bellamann's experiences while growing up in the town of
Fulton, Missouri . It was his chance to air the town's dirty laundry; the character's names were changed, but their story remained the same. The book is still considered scandalous by some in the town of Fulton.The highly-regarded musical score of the movie was composed by
Erich Wolfgang Korngold , and inspired the "Main Title Theme" of the 1977 blockbuster movie "Star Wars ", composed byJohn Williams .Fact|date=April 2008Television series
"Kings Row" was also a 1955 television series based upon the movie, with Jack Kelly (who later portrayed Bart Maverick in "Maverick") in Cummings' role and
Robert Horton (who subsequently played scout Flint McCullough in "Wagon Train ") performing Reagan's part. The show appeared as one of three rotating series on the earliestWilliam T. Orr production, "Warner Bros. Presents ". The other two series were "Casablanca", another TV version of a renowned movie (featuringCharles McGraw inHumphrey Bogart 's role), and "Cheyenne", a Western created byRoy Huggins that went on to its own time slot for several years until it started rotating with "Bronco", anotherWarner Bros. Western. At the conclusion of each episode of "Warner Bros. Presents", hostGig Young would interview a different actor from a new Warner Bros. movie about the studio's latest theatrical release. "Kings Row" ran for seven episodes.ee also
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