A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
Acting
Walter Huston's trembling dignity will wreck you.
Direction
Wyler lets silences do the screaming.
Writing
Sidney Howard's dialogue cuts like a letter opener.
Director
William Wyler
Walter Huston
Sam Dodsworth
Ruth Chatterton
Fran Dodsworth
Paul Lukas
Arnold Iselin
Mary Astor
Edith Cortright
David Niven
Captain Clyde Lockert
Gregory Gaye
Baron Kurt Von Obersdorf
Maria Ouspenskaya
Baroness Von Obersdorf
Odette Myrtil
Renée de Penable
Spring Byington
Matey Pearson
Harlan Briggs
Tubby Pearson
John Payne
Harry McKee
Bobby Barber
Italian Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Ted Billings
Man on Railroad Platform (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Walter Huston originated the role on Broadway and reportedly threatened to quit films if he couldn't reprise it.
The film quietly predicts the postwar 'American in Europe' trope while skewering class tourism decades before Instagram.
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