The read
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 76% of the 353 1930s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
Ratings
IMDb7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes91%
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
150 audience votes
Key crew
- William WylerDirector
- Sidney HowardScreenplay
- Alfred NewmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Walter HustonSam Dodsworth
- Ruth ChattertonFran Dodsworth
- Paul LukasArnold Iselin
- Mary AstorEdith Cortright
- David NivenCaptain Clyde Lockert
- Gregory GayeBaron Kurt Von Obersdorf
- Maria OuspenskayaBaroness Von Obersdorf
- Odette MyrtilRenée de Penable
- Spring ByingtonMatey Pearson
- Harlan BriggsTubby Pearson
- Kathryn MarloweEmily Dodsworth McKee
- John PayneHarry McKee
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Themes
husband wife relationshipsoulmatessnobretirementindustrialistdriftinglove affairdivorceeolder woman younger man relationshipselfishnessocean voyagedrifting apart