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Pride and Prejudice [VHS]
starring: Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Maureen O'Sullivan
directed by: Robert Z. Leonard

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Jane Austen's wonderful novel has been adapted to the screen many times, with this 1940 version representing the golden age of the Hollywood studio era. Greer Garson, then just on the cusp of her stardom, plays the headstrong Elizabeth Bennet, smartest of five daughters who must be married off. Laurence Olivier is that difficult fellow Mr. Darcy, whose mulishness about the Bennet girls begins to thaw when he gets a dose of Elizabeth's sense and sensibility. The film is done up in the glamorous MGM house style, which means we're stuck with the less-than-inspired direction of Robert Z. Leonard (The Great Ziegfeld), redeemed somewhat by a collection of handsome sets (Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse won the Oscar for Interior Decoration) and the dandy photography by Karl Freund, one of the greats. Anyone accustomed to the 1995 miniseries version of Pride and Prejudice will need to adjust to the swifter demands of a two-hour movie, and to be sure this version, like the 2005 Keira Knightley remake, simplifies some of Austen's scenes. It's one of the few films, by the way, with Aldous Huxley as a credited screenwriter. Edmund Gwenn is lovely as Mr. Bennet, and Mary Boland brash as Mrs. Bennet; Garson, although MGM liked to corset her in fine-lady roles, manages to let Elizabeth's sauciness come through. Actually, the movie's weak spot is Laurence Olivier's elaborate performance as Darcy, which feels too theatrical. Not that it matters; Austen's story is so good, the film sails through to its delicious finish with all flags flying. --Robert Horton

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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301977685
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6301977688
Label: MGM/Ua Studios
Manufacturer: MGM/Ua Studios
Publisher: MGM/Ua Studios
Release Date: November 28, 1990
Studio: MGM/Ua Studios
Theatrical Release Date: July 26, 1940

Customer Reviews

Just so-so

Out of all the adaptations of this novel (and I've seen them all), this is probably my least favorite. First, it has all the nausiating over-dramatized acting that is so characteristic of old B&W movies (Betty Davis style prounounced eye-batting, and the like). The costumes were more of the style of antebellum pre-civial war America, rather than early 1800's Victorian England, with the poofy hoop skirts, and big bows. And I think the worst part, for me anyway, was the fact that this version completely ... Read More

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