Kings Row (1942) | |
| Director(s) | Sam Wood |
| Producer(s) | David Lewis (associate), Hal B. Wallis (executive) |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation, Mystery, Romance |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Turn of the Century |
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Kings Row (1942) was a Drama - Mystery Film directed by Sam Wood and produced by Hal B. Wallis and David Lewis.
Academy Awards 1942 --- Ceremony Number 15 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Cinematography | James Wong Howe | Nominated |
| Best Director | Sam Wood | Nominated |
| Best Picture | Warner Bros. | Nominated |
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Kings Row (1942)
By 4 Star Film Fan on Sep 4, 2018 From 4 Star FilmsKings Row is apparently a good place to live. The billboard in town says as much. It’s the goings-on in?the community?that tells a different story — providing?a?conflicting more subversive view of small-town America. The story starts out with 5 children. It feels like we hardly get to kn... Read full article
Classic Films in Focus: KINGS ROW (1942)
By Jennifer Garlen on Sep 28, 2017 From Virtual ViragoMixed reviews are often the hardest ones to write, and I have mixed feelings about Kings Row (1942), the Sam Wood drama adapted from the controversial novel by Henry Bellamann. I think, ultimately, the film is useful as an example of the ways the Hays Code could undermine the purpose of an artistic ... Read full article
Classic Films in Focus: KINGS ROW (1942)
By Jennifer Garlen on Sep 28, 2017 From Virtual ViragoMixed reviews are often the hardest ones to write, and I have mixed feelings about Kings Row (1942), the Sam Wood drama adapted from the controversial novel by Henry Bellamann. I think, ultimately, the film is useful as an example of the ways the Hays Code could undermine the purpose of an artistic ... Read full article
Kings Row (1942)
By Beatrice on Aug 21, 2014 From Flickers in TimeKing’s Row Directed by Sam Wood Written by Casey Robinson from the novel by Henry Bellamann 1942/USA Warner Bros. First viewing/Netflix rental Ronald Reagan is the best thing about this film. ?It’s another highly-rated drama that I wish I liked more that I do. The story takes place in ... Read full article
Kings Row (1942)
By Angela on Mar 23, 2011 From Hollywood RevueBack at the turn of the last century, Kings Row was thought to be a picture-perfect small town.? But just like Peyton Place and Twin Peaks, Kings Row has got a very dark side.? The movie begins in 1890 when all the main characters are just children.? Parris Mitchell (Robert Cummings) and Drake McHug... Read full article
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Parris Mitchell: Yes, sir. I didn't understand it entirely, I'm afraid.
Dr. Alexander Q. Tower: Well, it's a new field. They've even a new word for it: psychiatry.
Parris Mitchell: It's something I never thought about. I mean, for a doctor to want to cure diseases of people's minds instead of their bodies. I suppose it's a pretty big field, sir.
Dr. Alexander Q. Tower: Maybe too big. Maybe a hundred years off.
Madame Marie von Eln: I only know that you have to judge people by what you find them to be and not by what other people say they are.
Dr. Alexander Q. Tower: Well, Mitchell, I don't know at all your approach to medicine. Perhaps you regard it as an opportunity to become one of those bedside manners with a list of proper pills to give the patient - particularly when you don't know what is the matter with him. Or perhaps your aim is to become an eminent carpenter with a knife and a chisel and a saw. Perhaps even you'll flow over with the nobility of relieving humanity's suffering. I'll tell you my approach to medicine! It is a game in which man pits his brains against the forces of destruction and disease. In the beginning I don't expect you to participate in the game. You'll only listen and accept. You will study and you will make notes and you will memorize... and you will do all this only because I tell you to.
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Facts about
20th Century Fox attempted to buy the book's rights to turn it into a vehicle for Henry Fonda.
Among the actresses considered for the part of 'Cassandra', were Katharine Hepburn, Adele Longmire, Marsha Hunt, Laraine Day, Susan Peters, Joan Leslie, Gene Tierney and Priscilla Lane.
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