King’s Row suite

Composer: KORNGOLD, Erich Wolfgang
  • Kings Row (1942) is a melodrama coming of age film in which five children from a rural American town grow up and see their dreams met by harsh reality and the hypocrisy of modern life. The movie starred Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan and Betty Field.1
    • Yes, this is the movie where a sadistic surgeon cuts off Ronald Reagan’s legs and then Ronnie says, “Where’s the rest of me?” This scene terrified me as a child but if you think listeners want to hear about this, here you go.2
  • The fanfare main theme from this film helped inspire John Williams’ main theme for Star Wars.3

Sources

  1. “Kings Row (1942),” IMDB, accessed October 31, 2019, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034946/.
  2. “Kings Row/The Sea Wolf (1942/1941),” Film Score Monthly, accessed October 31, 2019, https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/cds/detail.cfm/CDID/392/Kings-Row-The-Sea-Wolf/.
  3. Ibid.

Cut IDs

22608