Pride and Prejudice
by Robert Z. Leonard, Rudolf Ising
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Actor: Edna May Oliver, Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Maureen O'SullivanDirector: Robert Z. Leonard, Rudolf Ising
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Fred Quimby
Writer: Aldous Huxley
Writer: Helen Jerome
Writer: Jane Austen
Writer: Jane Murfin
Writer: Victor Heerman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Pride and Prejudice
Movie Review: A twist to a classic
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm sure there are fans that would be very unhappy with the turn out and the strengths of the characters, but I have to highlight the differences. This is a movie and in picture land stories are manipulated to fit the audience's needs. Including the big costumes and dramatic expressions that the actors wear. I was very happy with the way the story was interpreted. Laurence Olivier is very talented too. If you're an individual that demands to see Pride and Prejudice as how Jane Austen wrote it, try the Pride and Prejudice 1995 TV mini-series by BBC.
Summary of Pride and Prejudice
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/10/2006 Run time: 118 minutes Rating: NrJane Austen's wonderful novel has been adapted to the screen many times, with this 1940 version representing the golden age of the Hollywood studio era. Greer Garson, then just on the cusp of her stardom, plays the headstrong Elizabeth Bennet, smartest of five daughters who must be married off. Laurence Olivier is that difficult fellow Mr. Darcy, whose mulishness about the Bennet girls begins to thaw when he gets a dose of Elizabeth's sense and sensibility. The film is done up in the glamorous MGM house style, which means we're stuck with the less-than-inspired direction of Robert Z. Leonard (The Great Ziegfeld), redeemed somewhat by a collection of handsome sets (Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse won the Oscar for Interior Decoration) and the dandy photography by Karl Freund, one of the greats. Anyone accustomed to the 1995 miniseries version of Pride and Prejudice will need to adjust to the swifter demands of a two-hour movie, and to be sure this version, like the 2005 Keira Knightley remake, simplifies some of Austen's scenes. It's one of the few films, by the way, with Aldous Huxley as a credited screenwriter. Edmund Gwenn is lovely as Mr. Bennet, and Mary Boland brash as Mrs. Bennet; Garson, although MGM liked to corset her in fine-lady roles, manages to let Elizabeth's sauciness come through. Actually, the movie's weak spot is Laurence Olivier's elaborate performance as Darcy, which feels too theatrical. Not that it matters; Austen's story is so good, the film sails through to its delicious finish with all flags flying. --Robert Horton
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