dodsworth

January 21 movie: Dodsworth. This was a nice melodrama about a retired couple who go to Europe and fall out of love. My only criticism is that I could have lived without the conceit of it being all the wife's fault. I suppose it does sometimes happen that a marriage ends entirely because of one's person's problems, but it seems to me that's pretty rare. Usually both people take their part in messing things up. Anyway, Mary Astor is in it as a sensible women, so at least they didn't portray all women as shrill and selfish.