This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
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Matilda Caldwell
- Belle
- (uncredited)
William Challee
- Passenger on the Train
- (uncredited)
Edmund Cobb
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- TriviaThe patriarch and matriarch of the Hubbard family, Marcus and Lavinia, are played by real-life husband and wife Fredric March and Florence Eldridge who had previously teamed onscreen in The Studio Murder Mystery (1929), Les Misérables (1935) and Mary of Scotland (1936), the last-named being Eldridge's most recent screen credit prior to ''Another Part of the Forest''. Subsequently Eldridge and March would re-team in An Act of Murder (1948) (also starring Edmond O'Brien), Christopher Columbus (1949), and - again as married Southerners - Inherit the Wind (1960), these three films comprising Eldridge's entire cinematic career subsequent to ''Another Part of the Forest''.
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Marcus Hubbard: Try to remember that though ignorance becomes a Southern gentleman, cowardice does not.
- ConnectionsFollows The Little Foxes (1941)
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another part of the forest
This prequel to "The Little Foxes" is, like its predecessor (and successor), an acute examination of the Post Reconstruction, Jim Crow South where the old planter class, fallen upon hard times, and the rising merchant class both despise and are dependent on each other. The once proud plantation owners need the newly rich's money while the bourgeoisie needs the veneer of "class" that only a connection to the Confederate aristocracy will provide. The one thing that unites the two classes is white racism toward the former slaves, paternalistic in the planters' case, more crude in the merchants.
Guiding us through this hellscape is a waspish, sassy, at times perceptive and, at times, overly melodramatic screenplay from her stage play by Lillian Hellman, good nor-ish cinematography from Hal Mohr that helps to make this a film rather than a filmed play and good to excellent performances from the entire cast. Actors who I usually dislike, such as Ann Blyth and Edmund O'Brien, do solid work and actors I admire, such as Frederic March and Dan Duryea, approach career best levels. I was especially taken with March's interpretation of the venal Marcus Hubbard, a man who, in pursuit of profit, cheated people out of salt during wartime and is now trying to buy back his guilt ridden soul through an equally slavish pursuit of Culture. I also liked the subsidiary character of Laurette, wonderfully played by Dona Drake, a mindless floozie who, ironically, manages to nail Marcus more effectively than anyone else. And when the entire cast is commendable then one must also acknowledge the director, Michael Gordon, whose best film this is ("Pillow Talk" fans be damned!). Give it a B plus.
Guiding us through this hellscape is a waspish, sassy, at times perceptive and, at times, overly melodramatic screenplay from her stage play by Lillian Hellman, good nor-ish cinematography from Hal Mohr that helps to make this a film rather than a filmed play and good to excellent performances from the entire cast. Actors who I usually dislike, such as Ann Blyth and Edmund O'Brien, do solid work and actors I admire, such as Frederic March and Dan Duryea, approach career best levels. I was especially taken with March's interpretation of the venal Marcus Hubbard, a man who, in pursuit of profit, cheated people out of salt during wartime and is now trying to buy back his guilt ridden soul through an equally slavish pursuit of Culture. I also liked the subsidiary character of Laurette, wonderfully played by Dona Drake, a mindless floozie who, ironically, manages to nail Marcus more effectively than anyone else. And when the entire cast is commendable then one must also acknowledge the director, Michael Gordon, whose best film this is ("Pillow Talk" fans be damned!). Give it a B plus.
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- Mar 31, 2024
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