Kings Row (1942) is consensus pick for Reagan’s finest screen hour. A big, juicy, and really quite weird melodrama, the film cruises through the creepier side of small-town life, with Reagan in a very appealing groove. He plays the more rascally of the two male leads (Robert Cummings is the sensitive hero), a breezy charmer whose talent with the ladies gets him in trouble. The most lurid twist in the movie leads to Reagan’s line, "Where’s the rest of me?", which became the title of his autobiography. An extremely entertaining movie, with director Sam Wood inestimably aided by James Wong Howe’s lush cinematography and Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s classic music score.
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Oscar -nominated vintage featurette "The United States Marine Band"
Classic cartoon "Fox Pop"