Dodsworth (film)
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| Directed by | William Wyler |
| Produced by |
Samuel Goldwyn Merritt Hulburd |
| Written by | Sidney Howard |
| Based on |
Dodsworth 1934 play by Sidney Howard Dodsworth 1929 novel by Sinclair Lewis |
| Starring |
Walter Huston Ruth Chatterton Paul Lukas Mary Astor David Niven |
| Music by | Alfred Newman |
| Cinematography | Rudolph Maté |
| Edited by | Daniel Mandell |
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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101 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.6 million |
Dodsworth is a 1936 American drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton and Mary Astor. 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 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 several Academy Awards. Dodsworth was nominated for AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies in 1997 and 2007.
Samuel "Sam" Dodsworth (Walter Huston) is the successful, self-made and unsophisticated head of Dodsworth Motor Company, an American automobile parts manufacturing firm, based in the small Midwestern town of Zenith (also the setting for Lewis' Babbitt). His wife Fran (Ruth Chatterton), feeling trapped by the boring social life of their small-town existence, convinces her spouse to sell his interest in the company and take her to Europe. Sam disregards the warning of Tubby Pearson, his banker and friend, that men like them are only happy when they are working.
While on the luxury cruise to England, Sam meets Edith Cortright (Mary Astor), an American divorcee now living in Italy, who is sympathetic to his eagerness to expand his horizons and learn new things. Meanwhile, Fran indulges in a light flirtation with a handsome officer (David Niven), only to hastily retreat when he suggests it become more serious.
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