Another Part of the Forest

The film tells what came before The Little Foxes. Its subject is the Hubbard family in the American south. The family is known for being ruthless, and this story shows how they got that way. The father puts money and power ahead of everything. The children grow up inside that order and use the same methods against one another. The film ties a reckoning within a family to a story about class. The account shows the Victorian era south without decorating it. The hundred and seven minutes are compressed into a few days. Fredric March, Dan Duryea and Ann Blyth appear in Michael Gordon’s American film, completed in 1948.