Dodsworth

Dodsworth1936

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor, Kathryn Marlowe
Genre: Drama, Romance
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Runtime: 101 minutes

One of the finest films of the 1930s, this classic Samuel Goldwyn production was based upon the hit Broadway play written by Sidney Howard, which had in turn been adapted from the 1929 novel by Sinclair Lewis. Ahead of its time in dramatizing the di… more »



Fran:
Oh, you're hopeless. You haven't the mistiest notion of civilization here.

Sam:
Yeah, well, maybe I don't think so much of it, though. Maybe clean hospitals, concrete highways, and no soldiers along the Canadian border come near my idea of civilization. There are 20 million automobiles in America. Now, I've contributed something to every single one of them from my own personal civilization. And if that isn't more than knowing how to order dinner as your friend the madam...

Fran:
You don't want to learn. I could teach you. I belong here. They accept me here.

Sam:
Yeah? Well, I'm gonna get out of this town and back to doing something, and take you along.

Fran:
Well, I'm not going, Sam.

Sam:
Oh, yes, you are.

Fran:
No, I'm not. I think you and I need a vacation from each other.

Sam:
Well, I don't feel that way about it. I think I've been weak with you long enough.

Fran:
Besides, I've rented a villa with Renee for the summer at Montreux on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. I've signed the lease.

Sam:
Well, I think you might have told me.

Fran:
I got my own money.

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