Above all, the film is remarkable in that it strengthens rather than dilutes Shaw's insistence on language as the vital instrument of power and oppression.
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06/24/06
Pygmalion (1938)
94 %
Reviews Counted: 16 Fresh: 15 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 8.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Wendy Hiller, Leslie Howard, Wilfred Lawson, Scott Sunderland, Marie Lohr
Director: Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Screenwriter: George Bernard Shaw, W.P. Lipscomb, Cecil Lewis, Ian Dalrymple
Producer: Gabriel Pascal
Composer: Arthur Honegger
Screenwriter: George Bernard Shaw, W.P. Lipscomb, Cecil Lewis, Ian Dalrymple
Producer: Gabriel Pascal
Composer: Arthur Honegger
Reviews
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Smartly produced, this makes an excellent job of transcribing George Bernard Shaw, retaining all the key lines and giving freshness to the theme.
11/06/07
Top Critic
This authorized version is the most successful adaptation of George B Shaw to the big screen, one that maintains the text's acerbic wit and droll humor and is splendidly acted by Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller in Oscar-nominated performances.
06/14/07
Embora não tenha o mesmo charme da versão realizada em 1964 (My Fair Lady), este filme conta com uma atuação inesquecível da dupla central (especialmente Hiller) e com os ótimos diálogos de Shaw.
07/30/03
Top Critic
Leslie Howard strikes the perfect note as the super-efficient Professor Higgins.
02/28/02
the film ultimately wins your heart not because of the social lessons it offers, but because of the truthfulness of its human relationships
02/27/01
Shaw's magnificent comedy, a 1913 stage smash, was never better served than here, with Howard and Hiller perfectly matched as thoroughly mismatched lovers.
01/01/00
Top Critic
Like My Fair Lady, Pygmalion has been falsely perceived as a romantic comedy...But Pygmalion does let one get closer to the truth; that it's really a biting social satire...
01/01/00
...not only the best movie adaptation of a George Bernard Shaw play, but one of the most enduring social comedies of all time.
01/01/00
Pygmalion (1938) is the non-musical film version of George Bernard Shaw's 1912 stage play, a socio-economic drama based on the Cinderella story,
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