Surprisingly mature study of a marriage in its later years, written by Sinclair Lewis (novel and stage adaptation) and Sidney Howard - Walter Huston played the role first on stage. He's awfully good, though we missed the moment we loved before where he steps over the dog!
David Niven is quite good as a cad - in his book he maintains Wyler made them exhaustively repeat takes, even pushing seasoned veteran Ruth Chatterton into slapping him and locking herself in her room. Rest of good cast: Mary Astor at her most sympathetic, Paul Lukas and Gregory Gaye as cads #2 and #3 (with Maria Ouspenskaya as latter's mum), Spring Byington and Harlan Briggs.
Good team behind camera: Lionel Newman, Rudolph Maté, Daniel Mandell.
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