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Pygmalion - Criterion Collection

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starring: Wendy Hiller, Leslie Howard, O.B. Clarence, Kate Cutler, Everley Gregg directed by: Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith See Larger Image List Price: $29.95 Amazon.com's Price: $26.99 You Save: $2.96 (10%) as of 03/22/2010 04:23 EDT Used Price: $18.00 Third Party New Price: $17.47 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Brand: HOWARD,LESLIE EAN: 9780780023536 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC ISBN: 0780023536 Item Dimensions: 35 Label: Criterion Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitled Manufacturer: Criterion MPN: PMIDPYG030V Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Criterion Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 19, 2000 Running Time: 89 minutes Studio: Criterion Theatrical Release Date: March 03, 1939 Related Items: Contempt - Criterion Collection Variety Lights - Criterion collection The Fallen Idol - Criterion Collection The White Sheik - Criterion Collection Forbidden Games: The Criterion Collection see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Professor Henry Higgins (Howard) works to make a pretty flower girl (Hiller) into a young lady of society. Genre: Feature Film-Comedy Rating: UN Release Date: 19-SEP-2000 Media Type: DVD Amazon.com: This bold 1938 production of George Bernard Shaw's famous play about a linguist who turns a Cockney flower peddler into a princess was codirected by Anthony Asquith (The Browning Version) and star Leslie Howard, who brings a calculated coldness to the character of Henry Higgins. There's no My Fair Lady sugarcoating here: Higgins is a brute using language as a weapon of class war and patriarchal subjugation of women. He's a likable brute, mind you, but a bully nonetheless, and his molding of poor Eliza (Wendy Hiller) into a Cinderella story is not a pretty sight. Everyone in the cast is in perfect accord with this production's take on Shaw's tale, and while this Pygmalion is a fairly radical enterprise, it is also very funny and handsomely realized. Hiller and Howard have never been better, and the rest of the cast, including Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr, Scott Sunderland, and Jean Cadell, can't be improved upon. Edited by David Lean, who eventually directed Brief Encounter and Lawrence of Arabia. --Tom Keogh Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Shaw Without the Music Still Sings in the Still Wondrous Original Film Version Far more a pointed satire on social mores than an opposites-attract love story, the original 1938 adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's classic 1913 play is still a glistening piece of pre-WWII British cinema fluidly co-directed by Anthony Asquith (The Importance of Being Earnest) and star Leslie Howard. Howard (Gone with the Wind) and Wendy Hiller (I Know Where I'm Going!) are close to perfection in the principal roles, but the movie's key distinction lies in the fact that Shaw adapted his own play ... Read More Rating: - Works Perfectly Not sure what everyone was talking about with bad audio, but I watched this movie first on TV, I forget what channel, some old guy introduces it and such and then it goes from there. Anyway, if you know what I'm talking about good, because this movie is the same awesome quality. I have ZERO complaints about the movie, works great, looks great on my 40inch Samsung 1080p Tv, couldn't ask for better from a 1930's era movie. Rating: - Great companion to "My Fair Lady" I only heard about the 1938 film version of Shaw's play after I had already seen "My Fair Lady". When I heard it wasn't a musical, it sounded truly promising (I'm not much of a fan of musicals). If I had to choose between the two, overall I'd pick this film. The story flows better and makes more sense. The biggest example of this is Eliza Doolittle's progress in elocution. In this film Eliza has a good ear for sound despite her lack of education, and she is able to mimic proper speech. ... Read More Rating: - Fast Delivery I thought the product came to me pretty fast...and it was of good quality...I would definately do business with them again...!!! Rating: - "You see, the difference between a lady and a flower girl isn't how she behaves, it's how she's treated." The opportunity to watch Pygmalion next to My Fair Lady is not to be missed. If Shaw at first was reluctant to approve a movie version of Pygmalion, he ended up enthusiastically promoting Wendy Hiller for the part of Eliza Doolittle and, at 82, co-adapting his play into a screenplay and writing several new scenes, including the whole ballroom episode involving that oleaginous fraud, Karpathy. Thanks to Shaw, director Anthony Asquith, co-director Leslie Howard who plays Professor Henry Higgins, Wendy ... Read More see more

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