The Little Foxes (film)

The Little Foxes 1941 is an American drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Lillian Hellman is based on her 1939 play of the same name. Hellmans exhusband Arthur Kober, Dorothy Parker and her husband Alan Campbell contributed additional scenes and dialogue.

Regina argues with Horace about her contempt for him and, when he suffers a heart attack, she makes no effort to get him his medicine from upstairs. Horace climbs the stairs to get his medicine but collapses on the way up. The final scenes of the film involve a dying Horace surrounded by family, a doctor and servants who await the chance he may survive. Eventually, Horace dies, leaving no one to contradict Regina if she accuses her brothers of theft. She thus blackmails her brothers, demanding that she be given 75 ownership of the mill business, and they are left with no choice but to accept her demands.Alexandra hears this conversation and, upon the brothers leaving, she confronts her mother about the nature of her fathers death on the stairway. Alexandra states the importance of not idly watching people do evil, and Regina tells her daughter that she cannot do anything to stop her from leaving the household. Alexandra runs away with newspaperman David Richard Carlson. Regina is left wealthy, but completely alone. ........

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