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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792851615
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0792851617
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 11, 2001
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 18021
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: September 23, 1936
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A brash american industrialistruns headlong into europes old world ways-and his wifes romantic flings. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 01/25/2005 Starring: David Niven Walter Huston Run time: 101 minutes Rating: Nr Director: William Wyler
Amazon.com essential video:
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 disintegration of a marriage, the story centers on the title character (superbly played by Walter Huston, who originated his role onstage), a wealthy automobile manufacturer whose wife (Ruth Chatterton, in her final American film role) desperately craves an aristocratic lifestyle in Europe. Dodsworth indulges her fancies to a degree, but their clashing desires--compounded by her affair with a European baron and his affection for a sympathetic widow (Mary Astor)--create further tension and mutual rancor. Dodsworth was perhaps the first Hollywood drama of the sound era that maturely addressed the complexity of a failing marriage and impending divorce, made especially compelling since Dodsworth is such an admirable and upstanding character who means well and upholds the ideal of marital commitment. Sharply directed by William Wyler, the film is as relevant today as it was when released in 1936. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating: - FORGOTTEN CLASSIC
Loosely interpreted version of Sinclair Lewis' best novel (arguably) springs to life on the screen as a Hollywood classic, seldom seen or mentioned anymore. Huston plays Sam Dodsworth, a bought out American businessman with plenty of time, money, and a wife with whom he's been going through the motions for years. A trip to Europe finds Mrs. Dodsworth on the hunt, first with a young David Niven, later with a young Frenchman ( Kurt), whom she's going to marry after a quick divorce in Vienna. Sam reacquaints himself, quite by accident,to Edith ( Mary Astor), a widowed American living in Southern Europe. This duo falls in love, but when Kurt's mother refuses to have her young son married to an older Mrs. Dodsworth (Chatterton), the cagey wife postpones the divorce and agrees to meet Sam to sail back to America. What follows, you'll have to see for yourself. Take it from this reviewer, the final 3 minutes are worth the price of most movies.
Rating: - Amazon has the wrong name for the main male lead
Where on earth did you get "John Barkley"? Amazon should enlarge and look at it's own pictured product. They will see Walter Huston who plays the main character "Dodsworth" magnific
ently. Any movie lover should be familiar with his name if only because John Huston is his son. He directed his own father in the much loved classic "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre". He plays the old geezer who almost steals the show from Humphrey Bogart which is quite a feat. Dodsworth is one of his many outstanding performances, which he played on Broadway before the movie.
It is unexcusable not to credit him, and I will not buy this product from Amazon until it gets its information straight. The main stars of this great and very appealing even now movie are Huston, Mary Astor, Ruth
Chatterton and Paul Lukas, and it was directed by William Wyler. It is a superbly acted and unusually mature must see for any true movie buff.
Will Amazon read this? I doubt it, and it will continue to insult a great actor and a great movie with ridiculously wrong information.
Rating: - One of the True Cinematic Greats
It would be difficult to find a more sterling example than "Dodsworth" of what the American cinema can do when it turns to our own fine literature for a story, and then utilizes first-class scriptwriting, expert direction, and a magnificent cast to bring that story to life onscreen.
This tale of a successful American industrialist retiring between the two World Wars, and the impact of his retirement on his long-time marriage, is based upon the novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis. In the tradition of good storytelling, the film explores social and cultural values through character development and personal conflict.
Samuel Dodsworth represents the best in American business: a man who has done well not only because he is shrewd and hardworking, but because he subscribes doggedly to old-fashioned principles of upright behavior. He has applied these principles both to his business and his personal life. As the film opens, Sam says farewell to the successful auto plant he has built up in a small city somewhere in the midwest, and which he has just sold. He departs having earned the respect and affection of all his workers, and now he prepares to take his wife on that long-deferred trip to Europe they have dreamed of for years. They have a newly married daughter, their parenting responsibilities are over, thanks to the sale of the auto plant they have plenty of money, and they are now setting off to enjoy the first phase of what, ostensibly, is a well-earned, leisured ... Read More
Rating:  - Why so expensive???
Saw this on HBO, I would buy it but the price is crazy. It is just like other hiped obscure movies that were good but not remembered, for instance, "Parrish" with Troy Donahue and Claudette Colbert. People are mad to get the DVD. But there is not one Jennifer Jones movie on Amazon in DVD (She's was a big accadamy award winning star of the 40's and 50's "A Portrat of Jenney" and Hemmingways "An Farewell to Arms" to name a few). Neither are most Barbra Stanwick movies. Cable is creating a demand, but the distributers, and Turner and HBO just don't get young peoples curiosity about these old films, and that they will pay a reasonable amount to own them. When the "Cotton Club" first came out on VHS it was 99.00 dollars. Some idiot bought it for me for christmas. I couldn't and still don't believe that a film you might watch 3 or 4 times can be worth more that 20 dollars. That was 20 years ago and now the DVD is about 20 dollars. Call me psychic !!!
Rating:  - Soap City
This is by no means the great film you might expect from all the applause. It's a soap opera of the most egregious type, and the suds are compounded by the leading lady, who should have chucked it in when talkies became the rage. If you like melodrama, this is for you. If you like one-dimensional characters, you'll love the movie. And if you enjoy crying in the theater, don't miss this film. Then you can tune in the CBS daytime lineup of soaps and be in heaven. This was agony to endure.
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