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Kings Row is a 1942 film which tells the story of a group of children 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 and Claude Rains.

The movie was adapted by Casey Robinson from the novel Parris Mitchell of King's Row by Henry Bellamann. It was directed by Sam Wood.

It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (James Wong Howe), Best Director and Best Picture.

Ronald Reagan's character loses his legs in the film, and utters the line, "Where's the rest of me?" Reagan used that line as the title of his 1965 autobiography.

External links

Kings Row (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034946/) at the Internet Movie Database

Categories: 1942 films | Best Picture Oscar Nominee

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	Kings Row is basically one of those old movies where this little town has a bunch of people going through their crazy, mixed-up lives and how they try and cope with all the pain that living in such a burg brings to them.
	The town of Kings Row is supposedly based on novelist Henry Ballamann's hometown of Fulton in the great state of Missouri.
	Kings Row successfully navigates around the edges of the movie-style soap opera to bring us a memorable look at how that most hallowed slice of Americana, the clean, pretty, small town, was just as susceptible to madness, corruption and pointless violence as any big city.

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