The Little Foxes

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces The Little Foxes, 1941.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Little Foxes, 1941.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Little Foxes, 1941.

Alexandra (Teresa Wright) arriving home from a ride, as we meet her aunt Birdie (Patricia Collinge), uncle Ben (Charles Dingle), mother Regina (Bette Davis), Birdie's husband and other uncle Oscar (Carl Benton Reid) and son Leo (Dan Duryea), early in William Wyler's The Little Foxes, 1941.

Spectacular bit between Dan Duryea as shiftless Leo and Carl Benton Reid, his even more brazen father, discussing what might be done with their uncle and brother-in-law’s dormant assets, while they shave, in the circa 1900 South, William Wyler directing from Lillian Hellman’s script, in The Little Foxes, 1941.

Having just charmed their Yankee investor, Regina (Bette Davis) begins her financial manipulation of brothers Ben (Charles Dingle) and Oscar (Carl Benton Reid), in William Wyler's The Little Foxes, 1941, from Lillian Hellman's play and screenplay.

Conveyed home after a long hospital stay by daughter Alexandra (Teresa Wright), heart patient Horace (Herbert Marshall) confers with wife Regina (Bette Davis) who's been making plans for his money, in William Wyler's The Little Foxes, 1941.