The World Changes is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Paul Muni as an ambitious farm boy who becomes rich, but does not handle success well. Aline MacMahon and Mary Astor play his mother and wife, respectively.

Plot

In the Dakota Territory in 1856, pregnant Anna Nordholm and her husband Orin build a cabin for a simple farm life. Orin plows the fields, and Anna chops wood; Orin Jr. is an infant. They see another family moving west to California to live off the land and raise a family. They become neighbors, and Anna thinks that they will live there forever. Orin dreams of a town with hundreds of families, and Orinville is established. Eleven years later, Orin says at a wedding that he hopes Orin Jr. will marry his childhood friend Selma.