Pygmalion - Criterion Collection
by Asquith, Anthony
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Actor: Everley Gregg, Kate Cutler, Leslie Howard, O.B. Clarence, Wendy HillerDirector: Asquith, Anthony
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-09-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of Pygmalion - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Works Perfectly
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Summary of Pygmalion - Criterion Collection
Cranky Professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) takes a bet that he can turn Cockney guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) into a "proper lady" in a mere six months in this delightful comedy of bad manners based on the play by George Bernard Shaw. This Academy Award-winning inspiration for Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady was directed by Anthony Asquith and star Howard, edited by David Lean, and scripted by Shaw himself. Criterion presents Pygmalion in a beautifully restored digital transfer.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
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