Very fine melodrama. A winning performance by Walter Huston in the title role, with excellent support from Astor and Chatterton. I loved how Dodsworth is not simply a naive rube, and his wife is not simply a spoiled shrew. These characters have vibrant depth and dimensionality, and their emotional arcs do not seem predetermined. The score is a bit syrupy at times, but the photography is nice. While the film doesn't quite reach the heights of THE HEIRESS, it's very satisfying and engaging.

The plot is a little bit too convenient for my taste. However, it's still an interesting, twisty examination of a married couple growing old not-so-gracefully.

A romance film about the second chapter that truly convinces and touches. Rarely are works in this genre as intelligent, original and complex as William Wyler's Dodsworth. The acting is very theatrical, as it most often was in the 1930s, but excellent at the same time.

Solid acting, particularly from Huston. Without overdoing it, Wyler and he skillfully invokes our sympathy, ensuring that we root for his and Astor's characters to end up together. The ending is very effective. A great, well-cast drama.

Would love to see the remake

Humming along as a good film until the final act, which ranks amongst my favorites of all time.

It has all the elements to be a perfect film but falls just a little short. It's a bit hard to ignore that we're worrying about these super rich people at the height of the great depression and the pacing is a tad inconsistent, but putting those things aside you have a great film. The performances are strong, especially Huston, and on a human level the romance, or lack thereof, are really well played. The ending is what really won me over, it could not have been executed better.

It only goes down after that opening shot. But what an opening shot!