Film · Goldwyn · 1936
Dodsworth
53Watch it awake.
He built the cars, and a holiday is what shows the marriage will not hold.
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The review
Walter Huston plays a man who built cars, retires, and takes his wife to Europe. Ruth Chatterton wants a new life with other men. He is still the man who built something. I put it on late, without the kids. A house can watch it, and a child should not. The marriage does not survive the leisure. That is the story, not a bump I can smooth. Adult, because the holiday is not innocent.
The work was his. The trip shows what the house was for, and it was not for hotels or other men. I kept wanting the factory years to count as a marriage. The picture will not allow it. If you are tired and want a couple repaired by vacation, this will grate. It grated, and that seemed right. Leisure spends what the work had been holding.
Journal
Keep Dodsworth in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety and Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Mrs. Miniver
65 instead of 53
Mrs. Miniver is still a drama film, and it scores 65 instead of 53. What you gain is republic: The village owes the channel a boat and owes its own houses a defense.
The eight
- 8Industry
He manufactured cars, and retirement is what takes that work away.
- 8Household
The marriage is the life on screen, and the leisure ends it.
- 3Piety
Nothing on the holiday stops her wanting a life with other men.
- 5Courage
He takes her to Europe and risks the marriage the work had held.
- 3Republic
The cars were for buyers; the film stays with the couple in Europe.
- 3Temperance
She wants other men, and the idle months never put that down.
- 7Truth
The holiday exposes what the house was for once the work stops.
- 5Stewardship
He leaves a built company behind and a marriage that does not last.
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