Little Foxes

Little Foxes1941

Director: William Wyler
Stars: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright, Richard Carlson, Dan Duryea
Genre: Drama, Romance
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Runtime: 115 minutes

William Wyler and Bette Davis made their third and final collaboration their finest with this striking 1941 adaptation of Lillian Hellman's acidic play. The titular foxes are a particularly ravenous turn-of-the-century Southern moneyed clan, the Hub… more »



Horace Giddens:
Maybe it's easy for the dying to be honest. I'm sick of you, sick of this house, sick of my unhappy life with you. I'm sick of your brothers and their dirty tricks to make a dime. There must be better ways of getting rich than building sweatshops and pounding the bones of the town to make dividends for you to spend. You'll wreck the town, you and your brothers. You'll wreck the country, you and your kind, if they let you. But not me, I'll die my own way, and I'll do it without making the world worse. I leave that to you.

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