Eclipse Series 20: George Bernard Shaw On Film (Criterion Collection) On DVD

Actor:       Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Stewart Granger
Director:   Chester Erskine, David Lean, Gabriel Pascal, Harold French, Nicholas Ray
Genre:      Drama
Year:         N/A
Studio:     Criterion Collection
Length:    347
Released: February 23, 2010
Rating:      Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:     DVD
Misc:         Black & White / Color
Language:English
Subtitles  :N/A

DESCRIPTION:

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, social-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 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.