Dodsworth (1936)

Directed by

William Wyler

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 148 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A recently retired auto magnate and his vain wife take a grand tour of Europe. They discover their marriage is strained by their very different desires for life.

melancholicreflectiveslow-burnbittersweetintimaterestrainedpoignantelegiac

What happens

Dodsworth is a 1936 American drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor and David Niven. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his 1934 stage adaptation of the 1929 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis. Huston reprised his stage role. The center of the film is a study of a marriage in crisis. Recently retired auto magnate Samuel Dodsworth and his narcissistic wife Fran, while on a grand European tour, discover that they want very different things out of life, straining their marriage. The film was critically praised and nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Huston, and Best Director for Wyler (the first of his record twelve nominations in that category), and won for Best Art Direction. In 1990, Dodsworth was included in the annual selection of 25 motion pictures added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, having being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and recommended to be preserved. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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