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The Little Foxes (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
116 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1941 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
William Wyler

Written By:
Lillian Hellman

Actors:
Bette Davis ..... Regina Giddens
Herbert Marshall ..... Horace Giddens
Teresa Wright ..... Alexandra Giddens
Richard Carlson ..... David Hewitt
Dan Duryea ..... Leo Hubbard
Patricia Collinge ..... Birdie Hubbard
Charles Dingle ..... Ben Hubbard
Carl Benton Reid ..... Oscar Hubbard
Jessica Grayson ..... Addie
John Marriott ..... Cal
Russell Hicks ..... William Marshall
Lucien Littlefield ..... Sam Manders
Virginia Brissac ..... Mrs. Lucy Hewitt
Terry Nibert ..... Julia Jordan
Henry 'Hot Shot' Thomas ..... Harold
Charles R. Moore ..... Simon
Hooper Atchley ..... Party Guest (uncredited)
Al Bridge ..... Dawson (uncredited)
Tex Driscoll ..... Bank Customer (uncredited)
Jesse Graves ..... Headwaiter (uncredited)
Lew Kelly ..... Train Companion (uncredited)
Henry Roquemore ..... Depositor (uncredited)
Kenny Washington ..... Servant (uncredited)

Synopsis:

The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Regina Giddons née Hubbard has her daughter under her thumb. Mrs. Giddons is estranged from her husband, who is convalescing in Baltimore and suffers from a terminal illness. But she needs him home, and will manipulate her daughter to help bring him back. She has a sneaky business deal that she's cooking up with her two elder brothers, Oscar and Ben. Oscar has a flighty, unhappy wife and a dishonest worm of a son. Will the daughter have to marry this contemptible cousin? Who will she grow up to be - her mother or her aunt? Or can she escape the fate of both?

Playwright Lillian Hellman first wrote of the horrible Hubbard family in her 1939 play The Little Foxes. In this lavish 1941 film version, Bette Davis takes over for Broadway's Tallulah Bankhead in the role of conniving turn-of-the-century Southern aristocrat Regina Hubbard Giddens. Regina's equally odious brothers (Charles Dingle and Carl Benton Reid) want her to lend them 75,000 dollars to help build a cotton mill. To do this, she must make peace with her long-estranged husband, Horace (Herbert Marshall) -- and failing that, she tries to arrange a wealthy marriage between her daughter, Alexandra (Teresa Wright), and her slimy nephew Leo (Dan Duryea). Horace refuses to give Regina the money, whereupon Leo is pressured by his father (Reid) to steal bonds from the family business. Regina uses this information as a means of blackmailing her brothers for a share in the new mill. In retaliation, Horace claims that he gave Leo the bonds as a loan, thereby cutting Regina out of the deal. When Horace suffers a heart attack, Regina makes no effort to give him his medicine, and he dies without revealing his willingness to loan the money to Leo. Regina is thus still able to strongarm her brothers into giving her a piece of the mill -- but the price for her evil machinations is the loss of her daughter's love and respect. The Little Foxes caused a censorship stir in 1941; by refusing to give Horace his medicine, Regina technically gets away with murder. However, the censors decided that Regina was punished enough when her daughter left her to marry an honest newspaperman (Richard Carlson). Given the usual Tiffany treatment by producer Sam Goldwyn, The Little Foxes was a success; several years later, Lillian Hellman wrote a 'prequel' to The Little Foxes, titled Another Part of the Forest.

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