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"Dodsworth" is not William Wyler's finest hour...

Posted by Victor Khomenko (M) on June 19, 2005 at 09:57:01

...and the movie is like a bath tub - intriguing in the beginning, then all downhill to outright boring and nearly jow-lockingly trivial and corny, with nothing to make you put your book aside, then recovering some.

Something like this is hard to recommend, unless you really dig the Americana and have to plug that little hole, patch that missing spot on the quilt.

Even thngs like David Niven's presence fail to elevate it above the soap opera level, until, that is, Mary Astor enters the scene... she makes some sense, never mind the cliche ex-patriat character, as she sparkles next to the - properly - boring and shapeless Fran (Ruth Chatterton).

The film allows you to look into the 1930's mentality in the US... that is - the way Hollywood saw it. There is as much connection to real life in it as between Coca-Cola and Chateau Lafite, but still as a piece of history it has some merit.

If I had to keep just one Wyler's film, that would be the Roman Holiday, no ifs of buts.

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