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The center of the film is a study of a marriage in crisis. Recently retired auto magnate Samuel Dodsworth and his narcissistic wife Fran, while on a grand European tour, discover that they want very different things out of life, straining their marriage.
Likewise he knows that his journey is incomplete, having settled his ambivalence neither toward Europe nor his wife. Hope triumphs over experience, and he puts his quest back on course. He walks into Fran's second affair, this time with Arnold Israel. The in evitable confrontation shows him indeed steadier in his assessment:
Dodsworth: Directed by William Wyler. With Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor. A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
- (10K)
- Drama, Romance
- William Wyler
- 1936-09-23
Dodsworth is crass and unsophisticated; yet at the same time he's honest and never misleads his wife into thinking he's something that he's not. Mrs. Dodsworth has a right to be bored by the kind of life Dodsworth is content with, but she might have thought of that before so readily accepting his financial success.
The shallow, unsatisfied, age-fearing and restless wife (43 year-old Ruth Chatterton, replacing Fay Bainter from the stage production, and in one of her last US feature films before appearing in TV roles) was married to a homespun, prosperous, self-made millionaire (Oscar-nominated Walter Huston).
Apr 25, 1991 · His wife, Fran (Chatterton), has persuaded him to take her to Europe so they can begin to “enjoy life.” But enjoying life turns out to mean very different things to each of them.
Businessman and wife take an extended European holiday during which Huston discovers that his wife, apprehensive about entering middle age, is having an affair. He meets another woman who restores his faith and gives him a reason to live.
