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When Sam Dodsworth (Walter Huston), the head of a car company, embarks on a vacation in Europe with his youth-obsessed wife, Fran (Ruth Chatterton), the couple find themselves growing apart. Soon Fran is flirting with other men and embracing a spontaneous and impulsive lifestyle, while Sam is left on his own. However, after running into the lively and independent Edith Cortwright (Mary Astor), an acquaintance from their transatlantic trip, Sam realizes that he may find love again.
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Genre: Drama
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Original Language: English
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Director: William Wyler
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Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Distributor: United Artists
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Production Co: Samuel Goldwyn Company
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What's unusual for this movie and the real meat of the tale is the perspective: Walter Huston plays an industrialist surprised to discover when he retires that his other half (Ruth Chatterton in a thankless role) is not his other half. Even better is the rationale given: she's afraid of aging. Not many films, particularly from this era (or any of the subsequent ones) dared these waters, and the whole is played more or less believably and without the hysterics one would expect, lending an adult air to the considerations most unlike other films, or daytime television talk shows.
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Walter Huston is great in his interpretation of Dodsworth and how a good man eventually becomes undone.
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Drama fans may enjoy this, but I wasn't into it. It was boring, I didn't care about the characters, and the story didn't interest me either. Other than that, the movie itself isn't bad.
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What a great film. A forgotten film that I think everyone should see if they have not. Walter Huston is one of the great forgotten actors, and this performance was way ahead of its time. In 1936 for an actor to give such a real performance with such true emotion is amazing to watch on the screen.
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