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

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 on DVD. These clever, handsomely mounted entertainments star such luminaries of the big screen as Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains, Wendy Hiller, and Rex Harrison.

Starring: Wendy Hiller, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Victor Mature, Claude Rains, Stewart Granger, Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Flora Robson, Emlyn Williams, Alan Young, Francis L. Sullivan, Robert Newton, Sybil Thorndike, Elsa Lanchester, Basil Sydney, Reginald Gardiner, Deborah Kerr, Cecil Parker, Ernest Thesiger, David Tree, Gene Lockhart, Alan Mowbray, Michael Rennie, Penelope Dudley Ward, Marie Lohr, Antony Eustrel, Noel Willman, John Hoyt, Renee Asherson, Walter Hudd, Marie Ault, Jim Backus, Raymond Lovell, Lowell Gilmore, Donald Calthrop, Stanley Holloway, Don Garrett, Alex Sharp, Esme Percy, Miles Malleson, Leo Genn, John Merton, Dennis Dengate, Torin Thatcher, Alan Wheatley, Gibb McLaughlin, Edward Rigby, Jack Shea, James McKechnie, Kathleen Harrison, Clark Howatt, Harry Lauter, Felix Aylmer, Wally Patch, Valentine Dyall, Jean Simmons, Larry Johns, Sara Taft, Midge Ware, Mary MacLaren, Frank O'Connor, John Pickard, Harry Cording, Gaylord Pendleton, Strother Martin, Ray Hyke, Jackson Halliday, Bobby Rose, George Sherwood, John McGuire, Richard Reeves, Dick Elliott, Charles Hall, Larry McGrath, Clint Dorrington

Director: Andrew Solt, Malcolm Leo