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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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