Pygmalion (1938 Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard)

Screen play and dialogue Bernard Shaw, scenario W.P. Lipscomb and Cecil Lewis. IMDB also credits Ian Dalrymple, Anatole de Grunwald and Kay Walsh...

Music Arthur Honegger.

Our Second Sight release looks like it's taken from different prints - needs restoring. Looks like Criterion have done that (but it's now out of print and on eBay for $87!). Harry Stradling shot it with Jack Hildyard operating, and a certain David Lean edits.

Wendy Hiller's fantastic, brings a tear to the eye on cue, Leslie Howard also (plane shot down by Germans, 1943). Marie Lohr is his mum, Scott Sutherland Pickering. Jean Cadell was indeed in IKWIG, Ivor Barnard (Beat the Devil), Wilfred Lawson.

The stuff about 'how much for my daughter' is still quite risqué.

"Walk? Not bloody likely."

A bouncy, cinematic film, really quite joyous.