Pygmalion
He picked up a girl from the gutter - and changed her into a glamorous society butterfly !
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: June 12, 2015
- Originally Released: 1938
- Label: Desert Island Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Leslie Howard & Wendy Hiller | |
Performer: | Marie Lohr, Scott Sunderland, Wilfrid Lawson, David Tree & Jean Cadell | |
Directed by | Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard | |
Edited by | David Lean | |
Screenwriting by | Cecil Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb, Ian Dalrymple & George Bernard Shaw | |
Composition by | Arthur Honegger | |
Produced by | Gabriel Pascal | |
Director of Photography: | Harry Stradling Sr. |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1938 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Cecil Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple & W.P. Lipscomb
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
the film ultimately wins your heart not because of the social lessons it offers, but because of the truthfulness of its human relationships
Q Network Film Desk
Wendy Hiller makes a wonderfully vivacious Eliza Doolittle and Leslie Howard brings a supercilious edge to Professor Higgins in this lively adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 4/5 --
Leslie Howard strikes the perfect note as the super-efficient Professor Higgins.
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Goatdog's Movies
Rating: 5/5 --
Brilliant film version of the Shaw play.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
There's something special about this first English film version of George Bernard Shaw's play, before it became a musical
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Urban Cinefile
Rating: 4/5 --
A brisk but far from irreverent classic.
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Film4
It is all brilliantly amusing and remarkably undated. And there is certainly no cause for complaint about the interpretation of the story and dialogue by the actors. It is flawless.
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Monthly Film Bulletin
Product Description:
George Bernard Shaw's play, PYGMALION, which takes its title from the Greek myth of Pygmalion, a sculptor who fell in love with a statue of his own making, was a hit on the London stage in 1912. The transition to film was co-directed by Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard, who also stars as Henry Higgins, the vainglorious snob who claims he can turn a guttersnipe into a Lady. Wendy Hiller is smart and witty, giving as good as she gets, as Eliza Doolittle, the flower girl Higgins takes from the street and tries to pass off as a Duchess. Hiller and Howard play off each other with a delightful spark. The play opens up well for the screen, as evidenced in the dreamy sequence when Eliza attends a society party, a scene smoothly edited by the young David Lean.
Shaw wrote the film script himself, ensuring that his original setting in the more innocent time before WWI, didn't feel dated in the dark days of 1938. Other writers were brought in to lighten Shaw's view of the class conflict between Higgins and Eliza, and to lessen the amount of brow beating Higgins employs. Still, compared with the musical version, MY FAIR LADY, there is no magical Cinderella process here, but a painfully, realistically resisted struggle mixed with a slowly developing romance.
Shaw wrote the film script himself, ensuring that his original setting in the more innocent time before WWI, didn't feel dated in the dark days of 1938. Other writers were brought in to lighten Shaw's view of the class conflict between Higgins and Eliza, and to lessen the amount of brow beating Higgins employs. Still, compared with the musical version, MY FAIR LADY, there is no magical Cinderella process here, but a painfully, realistically resisted struggle mixed with a slowly developing romance.
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- Sales Rank: 50,230
- UPC: 637801681574
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