Dodsworth

1936

Action / Drama / Music / Romance

14
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 86% · 22 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.7/10 10 10964 11K

husband wife relationship soulmates snob retirement industrialist drifting

Plot summary

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

Director

William Wyler Photo
William Wyler

Top cast

Bobby Barber Photo
Bobby Barber as Italian Taxi Driver
Gregory Gaye Photo
Gregory Gaye as Kurt Von Obersdorf
Ruth Chatterton Photo
Ruth Chatterton as Fran Dodsworth
Dale Van Sickel Photo
Dale Van Sickel as Guest on Ship
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932.48 MB
988*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 2
1.69 GB
1472*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 15

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Piltdown_Man 8 / 10

One of the great ones...

This is truly a remarkable movie.It is staged beautifully. Acted superbly. And the directing, shooting and cutting is nearly flawless.Certain scenes stay with me most vividly...Mary Astor warning Ruth Chatterton off of Paul Lucas with nothing more than a brief line and a quick look.Huston and Chatterton undressing while their marriage starts to crumble.Huston getting the wire from Europe, just after being so much of a blowhard with his family.Walter Huston connecting with Mary Astor in Italy.It is a movie that could not, would not be made today. There is no violence, no overt sex. It is, as other posters have noted, an adult movie, made for the sensibilities of adults.And Mary Astor is just radiant and beautiful throughout...MMG
Reviewed by walrus-5 9 / 10

They don't make such adult films anymore.

If you're tired of the actual Hollywood teenager productions, you have a chance to see some maturity watching "Dodsworth". The relationship of the Dodsworths are amazingly realistic, and the wonderful performances by Walter Huston and Ruth Chatterton only improve the reality of the situation. He is amazing as a retired middle-aged industrialist and she is faultless as his futile, snob and frustrated wife. This film also got me some extra points because of Mary Astor, at the highest point of her beauty. It's masterly directed by William Wyler, and the cinematography is wonderful. One of the greatest films from the first decade of the sounded films.
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