King's Row

directed by Sam Wood
Category: "Drama"
Year of Release:1942
Date Added:12/02/2022
Date Watched:12/02/2022
Description:Two boys from a small town grow up as best friend. Parris (Robert Cummings) is serious, intending to become a doctor. His only weakness is Cassandra, the daughter of the Dr. Tower (Claude Rains) with whom Parris is studying. Cassandra's father never lets her out—thinking that she's insane like her mother. But Parris manages to see her and get her pregnant (although this is never stated outright). Parris' friend Drake (Ronald Reagan) is a rich goof-off with a good heart. When Dr. Tower kills Casssandra and then himself, Drake takes responsibility for Cassandra's condition (without fully knowing what it is) to protect Parris. After Cassandra's death, Parris heads to Vienna to study. Drake takes up with Randy (Ann Sheridan) a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. When Drake loses his money in a bank failure, he gets a job with Randy's father on the railroad. He has an accident, and a doctor amputates both his legs, not because he needed it, but because the doctor thinks Drake got Cassandra pregnant and wanted to punish him. Randy sticks with Drake and marries him. Parris comes home from Europe to help his friend. Drake is depressed and never wants to leave his room, but when he finds out what the doctor did, he determines to not let it define him and he and Randy and Parris begin a housing development that makes them money. Parris meets a girl who shares his interests and marries her.
My Rating:6

Reviews for King's Row

Review - King's Row

There was a lot of scmaltzy melodrama in this one that made it hard to handle. Cummings was dull. Cassandra was never likeable at any point in the movie. Sheridan was good, but Ronald Reagan was excellent. He thought this was his best movie, and it changed the way I think about him as an actor.

Reviewed by Roger on 2022-12-02 19:47:53

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