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Pygmalion (The Criterion Collection) - Region 1 DVD

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Description: D D 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 productio ... (more)
Manufacturer: Criterion
Release date: 19 September 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780780023536 UPC: 037429151822
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