Dodsworth (film)

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.

Samuel Sam Dodsworth Walter Huston is the successful, selfmade 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 smalltown 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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