🎥 The Little Foxes - 1941 - Bette Davis - 🎥 FULL MOVIE

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In 1900, in the cotton country of the deep South, beautiful and brilliant Regina Hubbard Giddens struggles for wealth and freedom within the confines of an early 20th-century society where fathers considered only sons as legal heirs.

As a result, thanks to their ruthless tradesman father, her avaricious brothers, Benjamin and Oscar, are independently wealthy, while she is financially dependent upon her sickly husband, Horace, whose severe heart condition has confined him to a sanitarium in Baltimore for several years.

The Hubbards are expecting a dinner guest, William Marshall, a prominent businessman from Chicago. Ben and Oscar persuade him to build a cotton mill in their town, making them multimillionaires.

Marshall invites Regina to visit him in Chicago. After he leaves, she reveals that she plans to move there, taking her daughter, Alexandra, with her.

Regina proceeds to drive a hard bargain with her brothers for a larger percentage of the mill in exchange for persuading Horace to help finance it, to the tune of $75,000. She sends Alexandra to Baltimore to bring her father home, supposedly because Regina misses him.

Regina and Horace's reunion does not go well: She cannot wait to ask him for the money. He has an attack, and still, she presses, destroying any illusion that she really wanted him home. Horace tells the three siblings he wants no part of it.

Oscar, having married and abused the sweet-souled, fragile, now-alcoholic Birdie to acquire her family's plantation and its cotton fields, now schemes to consolidate the family wealth by a marriage between his son, Leo, and Alexandra, but neither Horace nor Regina like the idea.

While the two of them argue upstairs, the brothers find an alternative. Leo, a teller at the bank, will “borrow” Horace's railroad bonds from his safe deposit box. They will use them as security for the construction, returning them long before it is time to clip the coupons. Gloating, Ben tells a furious, bewildered Regina they don't need her. Horace overhears.

He is glad not to be a part of wrecking the town. Regina's anger is icy cold: “I hope you die soon,” she says. Distraught, Alexandra tells her father not to listen.

After an impromptu trip to the bank, Horace discovers that the bonds are missing. When he tells Regina what happened, she is delighted at having a scandal to hold over her brothers' heads, until Horace tells her he will say he lent the bonds to Leo, on her behalf. He is changing his will, leaving the bonds to Regina and everything else to Alexandra.

She admits to Horace she never loved him, and only married him for money, and the bitter, ugly words bring on a heart attack. He spills his medicine, and Regina sits, motionless, as he staggers to the stairs and collapses halfway up.

Now Regina rushes to him, calling for the servants to take him to his room and go for Doctor Sloan. Horace dies leaving no one to contradict Regina if she accuses her brothers of theft. She forces them to give her 75% ownership of the business.

A bewildered Alexandra overhears this. “What was Poppa doing on the staircase?” Ben accepts the deal philosophically.

As they leave, he agrees with Alexandra, “What was Horace doing on the stairs?”

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✅ Credits :

Directed by : William Wyler
Screenplay by : Lillian Hellman
Based on : The Little Foxes 1939 play by Lillian Hellman
Produced by : Samuel Goldwyn
Cinematography : Gregg Toland
Edited by : Daniel Mandell
Music by : Meredith Willson
Production Company : Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Distributed by : RKO Radio Pictures
Release Date : August 29, 1941

✅ Cast :

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

✅ Film Information Source :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Foxes_(film)

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