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Dodsworth

  • 7.7 /10

  • 140

  • 91%

Plot

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

Cast

Walter Huston as Sam Dodsworth
Walter Huston

as Sam Dodsworth

Ruth Chatterton as Fran Dodsworth
Ruth Chatterton

as Fran Dodsworth

Paul Lukas as Arnold Iselin
Paul Lukas

as Arnold Iselin

Mary Astor as Edith Cortright
Mary Astor

as Edith Cortright

David Niven as Captain Clyde Lockert
David Niven

as Captain Clyde Lockert

Gregory Gaye as Baron Kurt Von Obersdorf
Gregory Gaye

as Baron Kurt Von Obersdorf

Maria Ouspenskaya as Baroness Von Obersdorf
Maria Ouspenskaya

as Baroness Von Obersdorf

Odette Myrtil as Renée de Penable
Odette Myrtil

as Renée de Penable

Spring Byington as Matey Pearson
Spring Byington

as Matey Pearson

Harlan Briggs as Tubby Pearson
Harlan Briggs

as Tubby Pearson

Movie Facts

Rated

  • Approved

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • September 23, 1936

Production Companies

  • Samuel Goldwyn Productions

Production Countries

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • Deutsch

  • Français

  • Italiano

  • English

Budget

  • $0.00

Revenue

  • -

Runtime

  • 1.68 hrs

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Reviews

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 clea…