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My Fair Lady - 2 Disc Special Edition | 
| Director: George Cukor
Actors: John Alderson, Frank Baker, William Beckley, Marjorie Bennett, Oscar Beregi
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: CDN$ 24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  124 reviews
Sales Rank: 7067
Format: Ac-3, Dolby, Ntsc, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Aspect Ratio: 2.20:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.7 x 0.5
MPN: 085392888528
ISBN: 079078534X
UPC: 085392888528
EAN: 9780790785349
ASIN: B00011D1OA
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1964
Release Date: February 3, 2004
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From Amazon.co.uk
Hollywood's legendary "woman's director", George Cukor (The Women, The Philadelphia Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins (Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on stage), who draws Eliza into a social experiment that works almost too well. The letterbox edition of this film on video certainly pays tribute to the pageantry of Cukor's set, but it also underscores a certain visual stiffness that can slow viewer enthusiasm just a tad. But it's really star wattage that keeps My Fair Lady exciting--that and such great songs as "On the Street Where You Live" and "I Could Have Danced All Night". Actor Jeremy Brett, who gained a huge following later in life portraying Sherlock Holmes, is quite electric as Eliza's determined suitor. --Tom Keogh
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Hollywood's legendary "woman's director," George Cukor (The Women, The Philadelphia Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins (Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on stage), who draws Eliza into a social experiment that works almost too well. The letterbox edition of this film on video certainly pays tribute to the pageantry of Cukor's set, but it also underscores a certain visual stiffness that can slow viewer enthusiasm just a tad. But it's really star wattage that keeps this film exciting, that and such great songs as "On the Street Where You Live" and "I Could Have Danced All Night." Actor Jeremy Brett, who gained a huge following later in life portraying Sherlock Holmes, is quite electric as Eliza's determined suitor. --Tom Keogh
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 Special Edition is the way to go July 25, 2008
I am really impressed with the 2-disc Special Edition DVD, hence the title. The quality was so good, at one point in the movie I though, "This movie looks like a new-release or something!". Definitely worth your money!
The Bonus Features DVD is really impressive. Well that's about all I have for this particular DVD.
 a cautionary tale November 17, 2006
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have always hated this movie. From the moment I saw it as a child I could never understand why a lively,independent,joyous creature would choose to enter a world of repressed Victorian womanhood. The beautiful sets,lavish costumes and show tunes masked a sad future for a winsome innocent who is last seen bringing slippers to a tyrannical over bearing ogre old enough to be her grandfather. I am amazed people regard this as a romantic movie. I wish they had focused totally on Eliza and her life in the streets. There are worse things in life than selling flowers and this movie proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
 Flawless August 24, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This has to be the all-time best movie musical ever made. Now, I don't generally like or watch this stuff, but the cast, the print, the recording, everything is superb. It seems like it was made only last week. I put this up against Merchant Ivory films and period pieces (The Importance of Being Earnest, Enchanted April, etc) and it holds up as well if not better. Of course Rex Harrison is remarkable, but my only complaint was that they didn't let Hepburn sing herself. I recently saw a documentary on this film, and they compared her singing voice with the one that was dubbed. Her's was more real and I really saw no need for that. But aside from that, Cukor's direction is without a flaw and the entire movie seems like ten minutes instead of its actual running time.
If you have to buy one musical, and even if you don't like them, this is the one to get. There's not a thing more I can say but "Buy it!"
On the street where you live July 30, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) who specializes in the English language makes a bet with Colonel Hugh Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White) that he can take someone who speaks with a lower-class language and by correcting the speech can pass off as upper-class or royalty. Overhearing this bet is a flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn); she wants to work a flower stand. But they will not take her unless she can speak more "genteel". Professor Higgins takes up the challenge.
Will he succeed?
What does her father (Stanley Holloway) thing finding that she moved in whit the two professors and did not want any clothes?
This is a musical version of the movie Pygmalion (1938), based on a play by George Bernard Shaw.
As people find that music and movies bring memories of the time in which they heard or viewed it. His movie has a meaning to me as I too was in love and found my self singing "On the street where you live." One of the strengths of the movie is that many of the songs instead of being classical and just stuffed into at odd times actually are songs that you would initiate in your life and they did so in the lives of the characters in the movie.
How do you do? And which DVD version to buy ... July 13, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
MFL is a marvellous film about a professor who turns a common flower girl into a lady. It is full of sing-a-long songs and funny moments. It is basically a classic for all the right reasons! Plenty of re-watch factor makes it a film to own.In 1994, the film was restored and thank the lord they did! The film's negative was almost lost forever. In fact, the film hade had become yellow-tinged and full of scratches, blotches and all the rest! It would have been a very sad day for the movie industry if a flim like this had been lost. The original DVD that featured this new restoration was released in the late 90's. This DVD included a 9 minute featurette, actor profiles, audio commentary, and Audrey Hepburn singing in 2 scenes. This original 1-disc DVD has since been updated to a special 2-Disc Edition. Which one to get? I have both so I feel qualified to answer this. The new DVD includes all the features found on the original DVD, except the actor profiles. The new DVD once again includes the restored print but is apparently a new transfer from the restored print. However, according to a report that I have read, the new transfer is not perfect and has aliasing problems throughout. However, the average watcher won't pick up on this detail. If this is an issue to you, purchase the original edition DVD where the transfer has been given two thumbs up! One has to wonder why they bothered transferring a second time. The advantage of the special 2-Disc Edition DVD is that it includes a 58 minute 1994 documentary hosted by Jeremy Brett (Audrey's love interest in the film). Jeremy is no longer with us, so it's nice to have this as a piece of nostalgia. ON top of this, there are many more features on this disc that aren't included on the original DVD such as footage from the film's premiere, production dinner, as well as discussions with Rex and Audrey. The choice is easy. If you're a fan of the film and don't care for all the extras, buy the original DVD. You at least get the best transfer. If you do care about having all the extras, buy both!
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