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List Price: $29.95 Our Price: $26.99 You Save: $2.96 Features • Black & White • Closed-captioned • DVD-Video • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 03 March, 1939 DVD Release : 19 September, 2000 |
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Pygmalion - Criterion Collection description 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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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Better than with Audrey Hepburn |
| Much that I love Audrey Hepburn she seems to play a totally different role from the one played here by the great Wendy Hiller. I understand this was her screen debut. I can say the role is just for her. You can't help falling in love with this young woman. That is it, she plays a real woman who is young, but a woman. The drama is intensified because we can feel what she goes through, socially and emotionally in her relationship with her cold and reluctant lover. There's more than simple comedy of contrasts here. The "unwilling" romance is accentuated here. There are the intricacies, and feelings of human beings whose God given power to love has been hindered by society's rules and etiquette, and has to break away by sheer power. Adorable film, adorable Wendy Hiller. One of the best old British classics I've seen. |
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