Eclipse from the Criterion Collection

George Bernard Shaw on Film

Edition no. 20

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Release Date: Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Country of Release: USA
MSRP: $44.95

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Major Barbara | Caesar and Cleopatra | Androcles and the Lion

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Valerie Pascal Delacorte and the Society of Authors representing George Bernard Shaw

Directed by: Gabriel Pascal, Chester Erskine

Featuring: Wendy Hiller, Vivien Leigh, Victor Mature, Rex Harrison, Claude Rains, Jean Simmons, Robert Morley, Stewart Granger, Alan Young, Robert Newton, Francis L. Sullivan, Sybil Thorndike, Basil Sydney, Maurice Evans, Emlyn Williams, Flora Robson, Elsa Lanchester, Deborah Kerr

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.

Year: 1941 | 1945 | 1952
Time: 121 | 128 | 98 min.