Dodsworth

  • Drama
  • Romance
9/23/1936
101
NR

Here is a picture that was marked for greatness before it was ever screened!

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

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  • Geronimo1967

    The title of this doesn't help it much: it sounds like it ought to be about a butler in a grand old English stately home but Walter Huston ("Sam") is superb, as the millionaire motor car industrialist who sells his company and sets off with wife "Fran" (Ruth Chatteron) to "do" Europe. Even on the boat, where she meets the rather suave, dapper David Niven ("Capt. Lockert") it starts to become clear that their marriage, though on the face of it loving, is not strong. When they get to Paris and she meets Paul Lukas ("Iselin") that becomes even more evident and soon "Sam" is doing all he can to keep the wife he loves from divorcing him. This is quite a slow burn of a story; but it isn't dull. The rapport between the two stars is tenderly and ho...

    June 19, 2022

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