GEORGE BERNARD SHAW ON FILM - DVD-ECLIPSE SERIES 20 (CRITERION)

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• Genre: Drama
• Plot: The hugely influential, Nobel Prize–winning critic and playwright George Bernard Shaw was notoriously reluctant to allow his writing to be adapted for the cinema. Yet thanks to the persistence of Hungarian producer Gabriel Pascal, Shaw finally agreed to collaborate on a series of screen versions of his witty, socially minded plays, starting with the Oscar-winning Pygmalion. The three other films that resulted from this famed alliance, Major Barbara, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Androcles and the Lion, long overshadowed by the sensation of Pygmalion, are gathered here for the first time on DVD. These clever, handsomely mounted entertainments star such luminaries of the big screen as Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains, Wendy Hiller, and Rex Harrison.; ; MAJOR BARBARA; Shaw's controversial takedown of hypocrisy within Christian charity organizations is wittily translated to the screen in this elegant adaption, which unites Pygmalion's Wendy Hiller and My Fair Lady's Rex Harrison.; ; CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA; This bank-breaking Technicolor production of Shaw's historical epic about the relationship between the Roman ruler and the pharaoh features vibrant performances by Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh.; ; ANDROCLES AND THE LION; A gentle, dopey Christian slave is thrown to the lions and lives to tell the tale in Shaw's wryly comic version of the enduring fable about the power of benevolence.
• Runtime: 5:47
• Media Format: Movie