Posted: Wed., Dec. 31, 1947, 11:00pm PT

Another Part of the Forest

By Variety Staff

Universal. Director Michael Gordon; Producer Jerry Bresler; Writer Vladimir Pozner; Camera Hal Mohr Editor Milton Carruth; Music Daniele Amfitheatrof Art Bernard Herzbrun, Robert Boyle

Fredric March Dan Duryea Edmond O'Brien Ann Blyth Florence Eldridge Dona Drake

Another Part of the Forest backtracks 20 years from The Little Foxes, Lillian Hellman's play, showing the same family of Hubbards and how they got to be that way in Foxes.

Picture opens 15 years after close of the Civil War, in a small southern town where the Hubbards dominate the community financially but still aren't accepted socially, due to Hubbard pere (Frederic March) having run salt at $8 a pound during the war to Confederates who badly needed the commodity.

March delivers to tremendous effect as the father, and he has benefit of as fine a cast of co-stars and support as could be imagined. Florence Eldridge makes her portrayal count, particularly as the mother who in the end admits she dislikes every one of her children, because of their meanness. Edmond O'Brien, as the elder son, is seen in the best role of his career.

Dan Duryea, whe weakling son, does a rare bit of character acting, and Anne Blyth, the daughter, is a vixen who elicits small sympathy as whe makes up to her father for his favor until her brother takes over the household.

(B&W & Color) Extract of a review from 1948. Running time: 106 MIN.