Pygmalion

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Russ Miss Hiller is terrific; she should have had top billing in this. It's a tough watch in places as to our modern sensibilities there's a tremendous amount of psychological cruelty displayed by Professor Higgins. At the conclusion I didn't know what to think. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/03/24 Full Review nick s This Leslie Howard film still looks good today. Terrific acting and directing, along with rich characters and great storytelling. Maybe a few wobbles near the end, but not enough to distract from a masterpiece. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/22/23 Full Review Sachin E A middle-class guy with a god complex imposes bourgeois dialect and etiquette on a working-class girl with Stokholm syndrome. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 09/04/23 Full Review John S This movie was a wild ride. These characters were forthright and self-aware and surprisingly unpredictable. Higgins has got to be the first truly functional(?) sociopathic character ever put to film. Incredible performances and never a dull moment. I don't know if I'd call it romantic though. Had it been a romance Eliza would have stayed in Freddie's car. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/10/23 Full Review Mark A My Fair Lady without the music. Superb! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Nearly 70 years later the Gabriel Pascal "Pygmalion" still sets the bar for film adaptation of a stage play. So much so, in fact, that the GBS incorporated many of the film's upgrades into the authoritative published version of the play, despite the play being more than 20 years old when the film was made. When was the last time you saw a performance leap off the screen like Leslie Howard's as Professor Higgins? Shaw never saw such treatment on screen again, even under Pascal's hand. The film of "Major Barbara" is interesting (and a bit bizarre toward the end) in its own right, with some magnificent bits in the Act II homeless shelter and a heart-wrenching Wendy Hiller, but pales next to the stage version in its intellectual, political and dramatic depth. And all the rest, even the charming "Caesar and Cleopatra" with Raines and Leigh, just don't cut it compared to the plays. "Pygmalion" is where any screenwriter needs to start in adapting a play for the movies. No one has done it better since. (BTW, GBS's afterward to "Pygmalion" is intended to be tongue-in-cheek, I think. It's intentionally ridiculous, so that the mob clamoring for a romantic ending would realize just how inappropriate and uninteresting that would have been.) Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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