The Little Foxes

12/26/2020

If you enjoy this review, please check out my blog, Old Hat Cinema, at https://oldhatcinema.medium.com/ for more reviews and other cool content. Would you kill for a cotton mill? Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes. Song of Solomon 2:15 The Little Foxes, made in 1941, was the third and final collaboration between the legendary Bette Davis and the great director William Wyler. Their first film together was Jezebel (1938) and the second was 1940’s The Letter. Down in the deep South at the turn of the century, a deal’s going down to bring the cotton mills to the cotton…and cold, hard cash into the hands of the greedy, conniving Hubbard clan. Ben Hubbard, the brains of the operation, and his brother Oscar, need $75,000 more to

6/25/2022

Bette Davis heads an impressive cast in this cracking tale of the ruthless "Hubbard" family who dominate the town of Linnet at the start of the 20th century. Davis is "Regina" who lives a grand existence with her daughter "Alexandra" (Teresa Wright) and two brothers "Oscar" (Carl Reid) and "Ben" (Charles Dingle) living next door. When a business opportunity presents itself to them, she manipulates her daughter into having her terminally ill, but largely estranged father "Horace" (Herbert Marshall) return home so he can chip in the much needed funds. He's a actually quite a decent fellow who has little truck with their exploitative ways, so declines to get involved. This pitches the daughter - who has issues of her own with her loathsome cousin "Leo" (Dan Duryea) and her would-be beau "Davi