The Little Foxes

Synopsis

In turn-of-the-century Alabama, the rapacious, aristocratic Hubbard family schemes to finance a modern cotton mill to exploit local labor, as the cold, ruthless matriarch Regina Hubbard Giddens blackmails her brothers and coldly sits motionless while her ailing, gentle husband suffers a fatal heart attack reaching for his medicine on the parlor stairs. William Wyler and Lillian Hellman's nine-time Oscar-nominated southern gothic summit starring Bette Davis and Herbert Marshall.