George Bernard Shaw on Film [Criterion Collection] [3 Discs]

George Bernard Shaw

Overview

This 30th edition of the Criterion Collection's monthly Eclipse series - a no-frills, pared-down issue of themed volumes featuring world cinema classics - features three key works adapted from the writings of George Bernard Shaw. The 1941 Major Barbara (co-directed by David Lean, Harold French and Gabriel Pascal) stars Wendy Hiller of Pygmalion and Rex Harrison of My Fair Lady, in a movie version of the Shaw play excoriating the hypocrisy of some Christian charity organizations; the megabudgeted 1946 Caesar and Cleopatra stars Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, in its period tale of the exotic romance between the two famous rulers; and the 1952 Androcles and the Lion features Shaw in parable mode, with a wryly comic fable about the triumph of benevolence, as a slightly befuddled Christian slave (Alan Young) gets thrown into a pit with a lion, and survives the experience.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/23/2010
UPC:	0715515055215
Original Release:	1941
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	5:47:00
Sales rank:	994

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- George Bernard Shaw on Film
1. A New Happiness [12:05]
2. Family Affairs [17:00]
3. The Shelter [5:35]
4. Bill Walker [9:31]
5. Papa's Visit [6:29]
6. Romance [4:35]
7. Sergeant Todger Fairmile [4:58]
8. "What Price Salvation Now, Eh?" [18:48]
9. Anonymous Donor [6:03]
10. Money and Gumpowder [5:51]
11. Father and Son [12:54]
12. Undershaft Factory Tour [4:29]
13. Foundling [4:41]
14. "Glory, Hallelujah!" [7:48]
Disc #2 -- George Bernard Shaw on Film
1. Evil Tidings [4:53]
2. "What a Magnificent Dream" [10:09]
3. Cleopatra, The Queen [7:45]
4. "Egypt for the Egyptians!" [21:09]
5. A God [4:36]
6. Into Battle [12:15]
7. To the Lighthouse [7:50]
8. Escape From the Pharos [2:29]
9. New Woman [11:00]
10. Protestations and Contradictions [10:21]
11. "What Have You Done?" [8:54]
12. The Art of War [5:52]
13. Farewell [10:55]
Disc #3 -- George Bernard Shaw on Film
1. On the Run [7:02]
2. Wild Beast [7:22]
3. Christian Prisoners [6:45]
4. The March [10:36]
5. Turn the Other Cheek [8:29]
6. Dinner [4:48]
7. A Christian at the Court? [3:34]
8. Martyrdom [6:33]
9. Sacrifice [6:42]
10. Poor Spintho [10:45]
11. Ferrovius's Fight [9:24]
12. Old Friend [8:24]
13. In Peace [7:30]

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