Kings Row

Kings Row
by Sam Wood

Kings Row
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Actor: Ann Sheridan, Betty Field, Charles Coburn, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
Director: Sam Wood
Brand: Warner Brothers
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; French (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video

Movie Reviews of Kings Row

Movie Review: A forerunner film!
Summary: 5 Stars

First and foremost, "Kings row" is a film that anticipated itself for years to late classics (All the king's men, for instance). Behind the peaceful facade of a small town, two men (Ronald Reagan in his lifetime `s performance and Robert Cummings, who would be the star in Hitchcock's Sabotage) will grow up and experience in own flesh the moral decay and relentless corruption.

The main obstacle which had to surmount this extraordinary movie, was to have dealt with the sordid and demolishing film "Grapes of Wrath". These were wartimes and films like this one or "The Citizen Kane" (a film that is still regarded as the supreme masterpiece of the American cinema, ignored, overlooked and displaced by "How green was my valley") wouldn't contribute as moral infusion in order to feed the kindled patriotism to face with the outland enemy. Needless to say the great public needed evasion and that's why you should not surprise why films such as "Snow white and the seven dwarfs"(1938), "Wizard of Oz" (1939) or "Fantasia"(1940) literally were the most celebrated films during those years.

So the film had to wait for almost a decade to be truly recognized as a forerunner movie. But the acidic test of time has dictated its final judgment and has set it a golden crown for the next generations.

Summary of Kings Row

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.

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