Kings Row

Kings Row is a 1942 film starring Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, and Ronald Reagan that tells a story of young people growing up in a small American town at the turn of the twentieth century. The picture was directed by Sam Wood.

The film commences in 1890 in the small town of Kings Row, focusing on five children. They are Parris Mitchell, who lives with his grandmother Cassandra Tower, daughter of Dr. Alexander Tower the wealthy orphan Drake McHugh Louise Gordon, daughter of the sadistic town physician Dr. Henry Gordon, who has been known to perform operations without anesthetic and the tomboy Randy Monaghan, whose father is a railroad worker.Parris is attracted to Cassandra, whom the other children avoid because her family is strange her mother is confined to the house and never seen. Dr. Tower takes Cassie out of school and Parris does not see her again until years later, when he begins his medical studies under Dr. Towers tutelage. ........

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