Dodsworth (1936)

NR09/23/1936Drama, Romance1h 41m
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Here is a picture that was marked for greatness before it was ever screened!

Overview

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

Top Billed Cast

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    Walter Huston

    Sam Dodsworth

  2. Cast 1

    Ruth Chatterton

    Fran Dodsworth

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    Paul Lukas

    Arnold Iselin

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    Mary Astor

    Edith Cortright

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    David Niven

    Captain Clyde Lockert

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    Gregory Gaye

    Baron Kurt Von Obersdorf

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    Maria Ouspenskaya

    Baroness Von Obersdorf

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    Odette Myrtil

    Renée de Penable

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    Spring Byington

    Matey Pearson

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 ke...