The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 46 – George Bernard Shaw on Film

David and Trevor are joined by Lady P from the FlixWise podcast to discuss three witty, literate comedies from the creators of Pygmalion.

This podcast focuses on Criterion’s Eclipse Series of DVDs. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each box and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this episode, David and Trevor discuss Eclipse Series 20: George Bernard Shaw on Film.

About the films:

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.

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Bernard Shaw: a Brief Biography
IMDb
NobelPrize.org
Wikiquote

Gabriel Pascal

Wikipedia
Criterion Reflections review of Pygmalion

Criterion Confessions
DVD Talk
Home Theater Forum
Slant
Wall Street Journal

Major Barbara

David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review
Common Sense Media
Movie Mirrors
Movie Mom

Caesar and Cleopatra

David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review
New York Times (1946)
Movie Mirrors
The Nitrate Diva
Viv and Larry

Androcles and the Lion

David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review
New York Times (1953)
Movie Mirrors
Turner Classic Movies

Next time on the podcast: Eclipse Series 13: Kenji Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women

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