Considered by many the best film of a great director, The Little Foxes was adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own stage play about avarice and treachery in the turn-of-the-century South. Bette Davis gives an extraordinary performance as the ruthless (but oh-so-civilized) Regina Hubbard Giddens, whose composure at the death of her husband (played by Herbert Marshall) is legend. Photographed by Gregg Toland (who photographed Citizen Kane the same year), The Little Foxes was cited by Andre Bazin, in “What Is Cinema”: “Between them, director and cameraman have converted the screen into a dramatic checkerboard, planned down to the last detail.... (I)n The Little Foxes...the mise-en-scène takes on the severity of a working drawing....” (JB)