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King's Row

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

The first film in the Behind the Picket Fence season, a trilogy of movies revealing that all is not as it seems in small-town America.
Starring Ann Sheridan Robert Cummings Ronald Reagan
Parris Mitchell and Drake McHugh grow up together in the small American town of King's Row. Parris, studying medicine with Dr Tower, falls in love with the doctor's daughter Cassandra, while
Drake is attracted to Randy Monaghan , a beautiful girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Tragedy awaits both young men.
Director Sam Wood (1942) B/W................ * FILM REVIEWS pages 53-58
The next Behind the Picket Fence film. Blue Velvet, can be seen later this evening at 11.00pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Ann Sheridan
Unknown:
Robert Cummings
Unknown:
Ronald Reagan
Unknown:
Parris Mitchell
Unknown:
Randy Monaghan
Director:
Sam Wood
Randy Monaghan:
Ann Sheridan
Parris Mitchell:
Robert Cummings
Drake McHugh:
Ronald Reagan
Cassandra Tower:
Betty Field
Dr Henry Gordon:
Charles Coburn
Dr Alexander Tower:
Claude Rains
Mrs Harriet Gordon:
Judith Anderson
Louise Gordon:
Nancy Coleman
Elise Sandor:
Kaaren Verne
Madame von Eln:
Maria Ouspenskaya
Colonel Skeffington:
Harry Davenport
Source: Radio Times

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