Dodsworth is a 1936 American English-language Drama Romance motion picture starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor, David Niven, Gregory Gaye and William Wyler. The movie is based on Dodsworth 1934 play by Sidney Howard Dodsworth 1929 novel by Sinclair Lewis. A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life. Samuel Goldwyn Productions was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Samuel Goldwyn and Merritt Hulburd. Dodsworth is written by Sinclair Lewis, Sidney Howard and Robert Wyler and it is directed by William Wyler. United Artists acquired the distribution rights for the movie. The movie has a running time of 101 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released. The movie made a box office gross of $1 million. Cinematography was done by Rudolph Mat and editing by Daniel Mandell. The music was composed by Alfred Newman.