I’m glad to see that someone else recognizes Walter Huston and his role in “Dodsworth”. That’s ACTING at its best!
EXACTLTY SO!! It’s an abiding mystery to me why some things in art, in the movies,some performances, just “get “ to us, and all others , while they may delight to some degree, and be judged as merely “ good”, tend to “fall by the wayside”.
Walter Huston’s performance in every moment seamlessly captures something called a “feeling tone” which is the hallmark of all great art.
“What thou lovest well, remains. The rest is dross”. said Ezra Pound.
And don’t forget, this film was from a period when the big Hollywood studios were still finding value in he project of trying to make film art out of solid works of literary art.