Released Date:
1939-03-03
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
89 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (5646 Reviews)
George Bernard Shaw (play)
George Bernard Shaw (scenario and dialogue)
W.P. Lipscomb (scenario)
Cecil Lewis (scenario)
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.
Released Date:
1941-07-28
Languages:
English, German
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (794 Reviews)
Director:
Leslie HowardAnatole de Grunwald (screenplay)
A.G. Macdonell (original story)
Wolfgang Wilhelm (original story)
Anatole de Grunwald (scenario)
Roland Pertwee (scenario)
It is mid-1939 and both Germany and England are preparing for an inevitable conflict. Professor Horatio Smith, an effete academic, asks his students to come with him to the continent to engage in an archaeological dig. When his students discover that the professor is the man responsible for smuggling a number of enemies of the Nazi state out of Germany, they enthusiastically join him in his fight. But things are complicated when one of his students brings a mysterious woman into their circle, a woman who is secretly working for the Gestapo.
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