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 summary On the wagon trail in Dakota Territory 1856 (Indian territory) A pregnant woman exits a wagon and digs her hands into soil. She and her husband decide to stop there to build a settlement cabin for a simple farm life. Orin, the father, plows fields while Anna, the Mother chops wood. Another wagon family is spotted. Orin Jr. is an infant. That family is also moving West (California) to live off land and raise a family in peace. Orin Sr. welcomes them to become neighbors. Anna muses that they will live there forever. Orin Sr speculates they will build a town with hundreds of families moving in. Orinville is established 1867 A Wedding celebration in town of Orinville. Orin Sr. gives a speech and mentions that he hopes that Orin Jr. (now 11 years old) will one day marry his childhood friend, Selma. Colonel Custer (Clay Clement) arrives and announces, "The war is over." With surprise, Orin's mother proclaims, that no one in the town had any idea that the American Civil War had been raging for the past four years. 1877 Orin Jr. (Paul Muni) speaks with a Gambler, implied to be Buffalo Bill Cody (Douglass Dumbrille), about the money to be made driving steer from Texas northward, though Orin Sr. and Anna do not approve. Orin sneaks out of house in middle of the night. Leaving a letter that he is going to drive steer and that Selma will understand. On the cattle drive, he runs into trouble. River, Thunderstorms, and threats from bandits who shoot at and scare his cattle. But, Orin drives them into Omaha where Wild Bill Hickok is the sheriff and a business man, James Clafflin, who turned him down earlier is impressed. James talks Orin into driving the cattle into Chicago. He returns home to tell his parents and Selma. Orin Sr. asks why he can't stay in Orinville, but relents to son's wishes, because he believes that what drove him and Anna out West is the same thing that drives Orin Jr. to Chicago. Anna muses that she wishes it was, but sadly it is not. Orin