2 Movies Starring Wilfrid Lawson

Pygmalion

Pygmalion

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1939-03-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

89 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (5646 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

George Bernard Shaw (play)

George Bernard Shaw (scenario and dialogue)

W.P. Lipscomb (scenario)

Cecil Lewis (scenario)

Fullplot:

The snobbish & intellectual Professor of languages, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that he can take a London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, from the gutters and pass her off as a society lady. However he discovers that this involves dealing with a human being with ideas of her own.

The Prisoner

The Prisoner

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1955-12-11

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

91 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (534 Reviews)

Director:

Peter Glenville

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Bridget Boland (play)

Bridget Boland (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. As a prince of his church, and a popular hero of this people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and afterward his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conquerer. In prison, his interrogator is determined to get a confession of guilt against the state from the strong willed man, and thus destroy his power over his people. The verbal and psychological battles are gripping and powerful - not even the increasing pressures put upon the Cardinal can force him to weaken; not even solitary confinement, continuous blazing light in his cell, sleeplessness, efforts to persuade him he is going mad. And yet, in the deepening conflict, the superb indomitable prisoner, creates a tremendous pity on his tormentor, the interrogator.

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