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Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was the film version of Bernard Shaw's

Pygmalion (1938)

It is impossible to view this film without instant mental comparison to the stage and film musical of another name.

Many of the lines are so familiar that, at first, one expects the principals to break into song. Blessedly, they do not.

One soon forgets the musical—pretty much.

The play and the stars of this Shaw-written film stand out on their own.

Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller are the Professor and Eliza.

Another wonderful Criterion digital restoration.

It is a highly enjoyable film and gets a 5 out of Netflix5 and no one had to walk on anyone's street where they live or, on the other hand, could have danced all night.

At all.

Labels: best films