Movie Review for Writers:
This movie, The Little Foxes, was in black and white, and although some black and white films are poor quality, this movie, at least on Amazon Prime had particular clarity. The house furnishings and fashions were wonderful and Bette Davis was at her most beautiful and her best acting 
QUICK SYNOPSIS:
Regina Hubbard Giddens, a proverbial gold digger in the early 20th century, marries and uses her husband in her various schemes of greed.
She is separated from her husband, who is ill and away somewhere getting treatment.
She is horrible to her daughter as the daughter is nothing but an anchor in her wedding-for-fortune.
Her brother Oscar did the same thing, married a woman with family money,
and treats her worse than the family dog.
Another brother is unmarried and he seems to have money of his own and they want to get in on a cotton mill deal with another outside party, but Regina wants in and promises her husband will come through with his side of the money.
The plot thickens when her husband decides not to go in on the deal, and Regina and her brothers show their true ruthless scheming selves.
The plan backfires but Regina takes it even further . . . don't want to spoil the end.
ELEMENTS OF INTEREST TO WRITERS:
- The movie opens showing the beautiful oak trees and Spanish moss as the Regina Hubbard Gibbons is a southern Aristocrat. They present great scenery for a writer wanting to describe the southern area of the country.
- The house and fashions are very much southern, aristocratic, and gorgeous. Again, there are lots of "sets" that the writer can use as a backdrop for any scene in a southern or gothic story.
- Watching Bette David act during the scene where she refuses to help her husband when he is trying to climb the stairs is diabolical and this too could be helpful in showing how mean and cruel the human heart can be.
- The daughter of the main character, Regina, comes of age as a subplot and the innocent dating scenes are very sweet and give insight into the difference in mores in the early 20th century.
- There was enough life going on in this film to also give anyone doing a historical fiction novel some ideas of the dating habits, and how the aristocrats interacted with their servants/slaves in those days.
Don't read any further if you don't want to spoil the ending.
This movie ends with the husband figuring out how the brothers and his wife schemed and stole his money, but as a writer, I saw a distinct possibility for a "sequel" of this story as the second story could have picked up with verbiage he put in the will stating that the money he left to his wife had to be used as only a loan to his brothers, etc.
There was enough going on with the daughter and the brother and his wife to fill at least one full sequel book.
WRITERS TOOLS OF INTEREST:
This is the second movie I saw that took place in a beautiful Victorian house setting. When describing these houses in writing, it would be helpful to know the various names for the parts of the houses. Here is a Victorian house I found on the internet and the various names for each part of the house.
