Leslie Howard Movie Collection

Featuring four movies on two DVDs. The quality is 7.5 out of 10


DVD 1

Of Human Bondage - 1934

Abandoning artistic ambitions, sensitive and club-footed Philip Carey enrolls in medical school
and falls in love with a waitress Mildred Rogers. She rejects him, runs off with a salesman and
returns unmarried and pregnant. Philip gets her an apartment and they become engaged. Mildred
runs off with another medical student. Philip takes her back again when she returns with her baby.
She wrecks his apartment and burns the securities he needs to pay tuition. He gets a job as a
salesman, has surgery on his foot, receives an inheritance, and returns to school where he learns
Mildred is dying

Cast
Leslie Howard as Philip Carey
Bette Davis as Mildred Rogers
Frances Dee as Sally Athelny
Kay Johnson as Norah
Reginald Denny as Harry Griffiths
Alan Hale as Emil Miller
Reginald Sheffield as Cyril Dunsford
Reginald Owen as Thorpe Athelny
Tempe Pigott as Agnes Hollet, Philip's landlady

The Scarlet Pimpernel - 1934

Storyline

London fop Percy Blakeney is also secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel who, in a variety of disguises,
makes repeated daring trips to France to save aristocrats from Madame Guillotine. His unknowing
wife is also French, and she finds that her brother has been arrested by the Republic to try and
get her to find out who "that damned elusive Pimpernel" really is.

Cast
Leslie Howard as Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel
Merle Oberon as Lady Blakeney, née Marguerite St. Just
Raymond Massey as Citizen Chauvelin
Nigel Bruce as The Prince of Wales
 

DVD 2

Animal Kingdom/ Also known as The Woman in His House - 1932

Tom Collier (Leslie Howard) is a book publisher who has been living in the city with his best friend
and lover Daisy Sage (Ann Harding) without being married. His wealthy father, Rufus Collier
(Henry Stephenson), wants him to live a respectable life. While Daisy is away for her job, Tom falls
in love with Cecelia (Myrna Loy). Although their lawyer and friend Owen (Neil Hamilton) is in love
with Cecelia, he doesn’t have enough financial resources to maintain her interest.

Cecelia tries to get Tom to sell out without his realizing it. She talks him into publishing bad books
that will make money and getting rid of his old friends, including “Red”, his prize-fighter friend
and butler. She wants Tom to sell his publishing company, live in the city with his father as a
"proper gentleman" and take their place in society, which Tom has been fighting all his life.

Daisy tries to stay away, but she and Tom’s Bohemian friends can’t believe he’s happy. She loves
him deeply and wants to have children with him, but cares most about his well-being.

Tom complains that he's losing his soul and integrity. Finally, when Cecelia offers Tom champagne
to toast selling his publishing company and moving in with his father, Tom realizes that Cecelia's
bedroom suite reminds him of a brothel he used to visit, as he says, "in vino veritas".

When Red tells Tom he is going back to the city, that he can’t stomach being at that house any
longer, Tom insists driving Red to the station, saying, “I'm going back to my wife,” referring to
Daisy.

As he leaves, he signs over to Cecelia a large birthday check from his father, and puts it on the
mantle, just as he used to leave money for the girls in the bordello.

Cast
Leslie Howard as Tom Collier
Ann Harding as Daisy Sage, illustrator and artist
Myrna Loy as Mrs. Cecelia 'Cee' Thomas Collier
William Gargan as 'Red' Regan, Tom's Butler




Pygmalion - 1938

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

Cast
Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard in Pygmalion
Leslie Howard as Professor Henry Higgins
Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle
Wilfrid Lawson as Alfred Doolittle
Marie Lohr as Mrs. Higgins
Scott Sunderland as Colonel George Pickering
Jean Cadell as Mrs. Pearce


 

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