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The Little Foxes (1941),
Director: William Wyler, rated Approved
From the
Broadway Stage Success by Lillian Hellman
  Starring:
Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright, Richard Carlson,
Dan Duryea, Patricia Collinge, Charles Dingle, Carl Benton Reid,
John Marriott, Russell Hicks, Lucien Littlefield, Virginia
Brissac
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★★☆☆
- great
"You'll wreck the town, you
and your brothers. You'll wreck the country, you and your kind,
if they let you. But not me, I'll die my own way, and I'll do it
without making the world worse. I leave that to you." -
Horace Giddens
Why watch this?
There's sour royalty here and Bette Davis is the queen.
Plot Summary:
In the deep South of 1900, the ambitious and ruthless members of
the Hubbard family scheme against each other to gain control of
their late patriarch's estate and an advantageous cotton mill
investment. Siblings Ben and Oscar conspire to force their
sister, Regina, to invest her dying husband Horace's money in
their enterprise, leading to intense internal conflict and
betrayal.
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Dad's Preview:
Simply put, no actress plays a bitch like Bette Davis. Here she,
and her den of viper brothers, plot, scheme and nip at each
other like rattlers in a tow sack. These people have
generational wealth and it has made them ruthless and horrible.
Yet for all their maneuvers and betrayals, it is fun to watch,
and I certainly wanted to see where it was all heading. Will
their malignant evil carry on, or will they be stopped? I will
state that the ending is perfect. I will also admit that I
thought I was watching Little Women, so I was
a tad surprised to not see the kind March sisters. |
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Samuel Goldwyn
Productions;
RKO Radio Pictures |
