Review of Kings Row (1942) by Gail R — 18 May 2008

Ronald Reagan got it! This is by far the best acting I've seen from him. The story is so interesting in it's portrayal of small-town life... well maybe all human life. The "stuff" of life does not paly out like hollywood dictates. Life is not a well-planned, intrcately laid out map. Rather it is quite haphazard and sort of just "happens". So it is in this movie.

The characters relate to one another much in the same way we did and still do. This move does well to tell our story. The development of Paris into a practitioner of the newly minted "science" of Psychiatry is a parallell of every one's experience. Someone became successfull, returned to Podunk and was instrumental in bringing Podunk up, improving the lot of every Podunkian, not necessarilly in a monetary sense, but more in the ability to relate and love.

Great MOVIE!