Pygmalion

1939 · 96 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 10,019 VOTES · DIR. Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard

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Overview

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,417 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:02:57 So long, ducks. See you in Piccadilly.
00:07:36 Oh, but I meant no harm.
00:10:43 Woman, cease this detestable boohooing instantly.
00:15:16 Amazing.
00:18:23 It's handsome, enormous. It's the biggest offer I've ever had.
00:21:19 I wouldn't have ate it, only I'm too ladylike to take it out of me mouth.
00:25:12 she becomes jealous, exacting, and a confounded nuisance.
00:28:33 Now look here, guvnor. Is this reasonable? Is it fairity?
00:31:47 As a matter of morals, it's a positive crime to give this chap a farthing
00:34:57 No, guvnor, not me.
00:38:45 I don't remember asking her.
00:42:50 Hampshire, Hereford and Hartford
00:46:48 - Good-bye, Colonel Pickering. - Good-bye, Miss Doolittle.
00:50:31 - Your Worship. - No.!
00:55:03 Miss Elizabeth Doolittle, Colonel Pickering
01:00:37 When he gives the game away to the ambassadress, there'll be the deuce of a row.
01:05:53 Take your slippers! And may you never have a day's luck with them!
01:09:44 Now you've made a lady of me, I'm not fit to sell anything else.
01:14:37 - This isn't Paris, you know. - No. Sorry, Constable.
01:19:33 - Thank you, ma'am. - What has my son done to you?
01:23:11 because he always treats me as a flower girl and always will.
01:26:22 About you, not about me.
01:29:51 Not forgetting the difference between us...
01:35:02 Where the devil are my slippers, Eliza?

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,417
Dialogue density14.8 lines / min
First line00:02:57
Final line01:35:02

Production Record

DirectorAnthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
LanguageEnglish
Budget$350,000
IMDb votes10,019