The World Changes

"HUMAN! TOUCHING! DYNAMIC!"

Nov 25 1933 Passed 1h 31m
Drama, Romance

Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.

Plot

A three-generations saga over many decades in which Orin Nordholm Jr. (Paul Muni), an ambitious Dakota farm boy of immigrant parents moves to Chicago and into the meat-packing business where he makes a fortune by inventing the refrigerated-railway-freight car or ice-boxes-on-wheels but is unhappy in his marriage to Virginia Claffin (Mary Astor), a snobbish socialite who is willing to accept his money but not his method of making it.

Written by

Edward Chodorov, Sheridan Gibney

Directed by

Mervyn LeRoy

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

First National Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
537
Average Rating
6.7 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA