The Little Foxes

The Little Foxes

  • Director: William Wyler
  • Writer: Lillian Hellman,Arthur Kober,Dorothy Parker
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: August 29, 1941
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Die kleinen Füchse
  • "The Little Foxes" (The Little Foxes) is a feature film directed   by William Wyler and starring Bette Davis , Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall , Muriel Teresa Wright , etc., which was released in the United States on August 21, 1941   .
    The film tells the story of a greedy middle-aged woman, Regina Giddens, who uses her young innocent daughter Alexandra to seduce her long-estranged husband, Horace Giddens, who is in poor health. story.

    Details

    • Release date August 29, 1941
    • Filming locations Belle Helene Plantation, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
    • Production companies The Samuel Goldwyn Company

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    • By Carley 2022-04-07 08:01:02

      A father's love as quiet and deep as the sea



           "Marshall turns in one of his top performances in the exacting portrayal of a suffering, dying man." Excerpted from the 1941 review of The Little Foxes by various media at the time, in which Herbert Marshall played the banker Horace • Horace Giddens. In this nine-nominated Oscar-nominated film (including Best Picture), the death of husband Horace, full of dramatic tension, contrasts with...

    • By Kiana 2022-04-07 08:01:02

      Nine nominations, no winners

      After watching this film for the nine Oscar nominations, I always feel that I owe something. Compared with the best film of the year, Qingshan Cuigu, both films made a certain attack on social reality and were full of depression, but this film did not have the power of Qingshan, and in the end, the bad guys were not severely punished, maybe they were defeated. one of the reasons.

      Bette Davis's performance in the film is quite satisfactory, not very good. In contrast, I think her...

    • By Kelli 2022-04-07 08:01:02

      She only dares to kill people she doesn't hate

      I don't know how the heroine of "Little Fox" in 1941 was reacted, but if this glamorous lady with water snake waist and fat skin came to the 2020s, she would definitely be "beautiful and miserable" that caused warm cheers.

      She is "greedy" - glamorous and enchanting, pampered, uneasy about the status quo, her heart and eyes are constantly rolling, she sells her daughter and her husband, and once she wears the veil, she loves no one; With her long eyelashes...

    • By Vanessa 2022-04-07 08:01:02

      It is necessary to talk about the role of aunt

      The character setting of Auntie is really layered.

      She should have been an optimistic and kind person, and she also had the desire to talk, especially after her husband treated her badly, she would have more desire to talk. The heroine asked everyone what they wanted to do when they got rich, and she said frantically, but her husband didn't want to look at her, and...

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    • By Chaim 2022-04-11 09:01:07

      Bette Davis is dwarfed by everyone else in her scene when her husband is...

    • By Stone 2022-04-11 09:01:07

      Bette Davis is so beautiful~~ It's true that Regina is also a poor woman. She got the money she wanted, but she didn't even have a person to trust and love, and her heart was still empty. Is it impossible to get money without losing family? Alas, the world is safe and...

    • By Nathan 2022-04-11 09:01:07

      The conversation between the husband and wife in the final living room was wonderful. No, it should be said that it is too cruel. . . "You must hate me" "No I don't hate you. Maybe it's because I remember how much I love you." "No I don't hate you either. I just keep looking down on you"...

    • By Antonio 2022-04-11 09:01:07

      Scheduling textbooks, screenwriting textbooks, acting textbooks (except Wright). In the process of watching it, I was addicted to it. The sound of Duryea swallowing several times doesn't need to be that...

    • By Maxie 2022-04-10 09:01:09

      Compared with the bitterness of the Civil War and the romanticization of the fortunes of the Southerners, this film is more realistic and focuses on showing the cruelty and cold-bloodedness of the South and even this capitalist fortune! The director and cinematographer contributed excellent visual effects, the writer contributed thought-provoking and evocative lines, and the great Bette Davis contributed a chillingly masterful performance, acting through her hair and fingertips, she The backs...

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    This is a rather shocking critical realism work. Wheeler's interpretation of human nature in Capitalist society has reached a ruthless level in this film. After watching this film, you can feel a chill and sadness after the decline of human nature. The film is adapted from Lillian Hellman 's play script, so the scene is very limited and narrow. The film of more than two hours is basically carried out in the room. Due to Wheeler's...
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    Movie quotes

    • Regina Giddens: [final lines] Would you like to talk to me, Alexandra? Would you... like to sleep in my room tonight?

      Alexandra Giddens: Why, Mama? Are you afraid?

    • Regina Giddens: Alexandra, I've come to the end of my rope. Somewhere there's got to be what I want, too. Life goes too fast. You can go where you want, do what you want, think what you want. I'd like to keep you with me but I won't make you stay. No, I won't make you stay.

      Alexandra Giddens: [thoughtful] You couldn't, Mama. Because I don't want to stay with you. Because I'm beginning to understand about things. Addie said there were people who ate the earth and those that stood around and watched them do it. And just then Uncle Ben said the same thing. Really the same thing. Tell him from me, Mama, I'm not going to watch you do it.

    • Ben Hubbard: Down here we have a strange custom. We drink the last drink as a toast. That's to prove that the Southerner's always on his feet for the last drink.

      [later he admitted to making that up for the occasion]