My streaming gem: why you should watch The Little Foxes

The latest in our series of writers highlighting under-appreciated films is a recommendation of a captivating and prescient drama with a never-better Bette DavisShe is imperious and stylish, with a laugh like an open threat and an aversion to mansplaining. She is Bette Davis’s Regina Hubbard Giddens: the sharpest, funniest person in the room. Unfortunately she’s also a psychopath who presages the next 79 years of rapacious capitalism, but then you can’t have everything.After the censorship clampdown of 1934, Hollywood didn’t make many radical films, but the odd one still snuck through: the progressive rom-com, Holiday; John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath; and The Little Foxes, a visually-astounding left-wing polemic that climaxes with the best horror sequence of its decade. Continue reading…
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