Pride and prejudice [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; produced by Loew's Incorporated ; screen play by Aldous Huxley and Jane Murfin ; produced by Hunt Stromberg ; directed by Robert Z. Leonard.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 79368 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Publication details: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2006]Edition: Standard versionDescription: 1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1419838237
- 9781419838231
- Pride and prejudice (Motion picture : 1940).
- Bennet, Elizabeth (Fictitious character) -- Drama
- Courtship -- England -- Drama
- Darcy, Fitzwilliam (Fictitious character) -- Drama
- Dependents -- England -- Drama
- Man-woman relationships -- England -- Drama
- Sisters -- England -- Drama
- Social classes -- England -- Drama
- Young women -- England -- Drama
- England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Drama
- Director of photography, Karl Freund ; editor, Robert J. Kern ; music, Herbert Stothart.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Long before 19th-century novelist Jane Austen became a hot property in Hollywood, MGM produced this opulent and entertaining adaptation of one of Austen's best-known novels. The elegant and slyly satirical comedy of manners gets under way when socially conscious Mrs. Bennet (Mary Boland), with the begrudging assistance of her husband (Edmund Gwenn), begins seeking out suitable (and suitably wealthy) husbands for her five daughters: Elizabeth (Greer Garson), Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan), Lydia (Ann Rutherford), Kitty (Heather Angel), and Mary (Marsha Hunt). One of the least likely matrimonial prospects is Mr. Darcy (Laurence Olivier), a rich, handsome, but cynical and boorish young man. Naturally, Elizabeth Bennet, the strongest-willed of the Bennet girls, is immediately fascinated by him, and she sets out to land him -- but only on her own terms, and only after she has exacted a bit of genteel revenge for his calculated indifference to her. Though Austen's novel was set in 1813, the year of its publication, the film version takes place in 1835, reportedly so as to take advantage of the more attractive costume designs of that period. Not surprisingly, a few changes had to be made to mollify the Hollywood censors (eager to find offense in the most innocent of material): the most notable is the character of Mr. Collins (Melville Cooper), transformed from the book's hypocritical clergyman to the film's standard-issue opportunist. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based on the novel by Jane Austen.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.
Special features: Oscar®-nominated short "Crime doesn't pay"; short "Eyes of the Navy"; cartoon "The fishing bear"; theatrical trailer.
Director of photography, Karl Freund ; editor, Robert J. Kern ; music, Herbert Stothart.
Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Maureen O'Sullivan, Ann Rutherford, Frieda Inescort, Edmund Gwenn, Karen Morley, Heather Angel, Melville Cooper.
The story of the five Bennet sisters living in early 19th century England. Their mother is scheming to make prestigious marriages for them. Focuses on Elizabeth Bennet, who mistakenly finds the rich Mr. Darcy an oaf, even as he sets all the other fair maidens' hearts aflutter.
Not rated by MPAA.
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital surround stereo, dual layer.
In English with optional English, French, Portuguese or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.