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George Bernard Shaw on Film
Starring: Wendy Hiller , Rex Harrison , Vivien Leigh
Directed by: Gabriel Pascal
Produced by: Gabriel Pascal
Written by: George Bernard Shaw
Although his witty and insightful plays revolutionized the English stage, George Bernard Shaw allowed only a handful of them to be adapted for film, including these three masterworks: Major Barbara, starring Wendy Hiller as a Salvation Army officer you won't soon forget, and Rex Harrison; Caesar and Cleopatra, starring Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains as the doomed power couple; and Androcles and the Lion - Shaw's delightful dramatization of the fable, with a playful look at Christian values-starring Victor Mature and Jean Simmons.
Item Number: 15645
- Format:
- DVD Fullscreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- About 6 Hours
- Number of Discs:
- 3
Although his witty and insightful plays revolutionized the English stage, George Bernard Shaw allowed only a handful of them to be adapted for film, including these three masterworks: Major Barbara, starring Wendy Hiller as a Salvation Army officer you won't soon forget, and Rex Harrison; Caesar and Cleopatra, starring Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains as the doomed power couple; and Androcles and the Lion - Shaw's delightful dramatization of the fable, with a playful look at Christian values-starring Victor Mature and Jean Simmons. All three collected for the first time and brilliantly restored by Criterion.
Major Barbara
Gabriel Pascal, 1941
Wendy Hiller plays one of George Bernard Shaw's most memorable, controversial characters, Barbara Underschaft, a Salvation Army officer who speaks out against the hypocrisy
she believes exists in her Christian charity organization.
Caesar and Cleopatra
Gabriel Pascal, 1945
Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains pop off the screen in vivid Technicolor in Gabriel Pascal's adaptation of Shaw's 1901 play about love and politics in ancient Rome and Egypt.
Androcles and the Lion
Chester Erskine, 1952
George Bernard Shaw's breezy, delightful dramatization of the classic fable-about a Christian captive saved from death at the Colosseum because of his kind act of pulling a thorn from a lion's paw-was written as a meditation on modern Christian values.
Major Barbara
| Major Barbara | --- | Wendy Hiller |
| Adolphus Cusins | --- | Rex Harrison |
| Andrew Underschaft | --- | Robert Morley |
| Bill Walker | --- | Robert Newton |
| The General | --- | Sybil Thorndike |
| Snobby Price | --- | Emlyn Williams |
| Jenny Hill | --- | Deborah Kerr |
Directed by Gabriel Pascal
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Produced by Gabriel Pascal
Original Music by William Walton
Cinematography by Ronald Neame
Film Editing by Charles Frend
Costume Design by
Cesar and Cleopatra
| Cleopatra | --- | Vivien Leigh |
| Julius Caesar | --- | Claude Rains |
| Apollodorus | --- | Stewart Granger |
| Ftatateeta | --- | Flora Robson |
| Pothinus | --- | Francis L. Sullivan |
| Rufio | --- | Basil Sydney |
Directed by Gabriel Pascal < br>
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Produced by Gabriel Pascal
Original Music by
Cinematography by Jack Cardiff, Jack Hildyard, Robert Krasker, Freddie Young
Film Editing by
Costume Design Frederick Wilson by
Androcles and the Lion
| Captain | --- | Victor Mature |
| Lavinina | --- | Jean Simmons |
| Androcles | --- | Alan Young |
| Ferrovius | --- | Robert Newton |
| Caesar | --- | Maurice Evans |
| Megaera | --- | Elsa Lanchester |
Directed by Chester Erskine
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Screen adaptation Chester Erskine and Ken Englund
Produced by Gabriel Pascal
Original Music by Frederick Hollander
Cinematography by Harry Stradling
Film Editing by Roland Gross
