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Pride and Prejudice (1940) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Pride and Prejudice (1940) a score of 2.8615 out of 4

based on (13) reviews

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Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (Nell Minow)

Director Joe Wright makes the camera energetic, but never distracting, intimate, but never intrusive....read the complete Pride and Prejudice (1940) review at Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (Nell Minow)

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Channel 4 Film (--)

Half a century before the vogue for filming Austen, MGM had dusted down this novel via a stage adaptation and, to show their good intentions, employed Murfin and Huxley to write the screenplay....read the complete Pride and Prejudice (1940) review at Channel 4 Film (--)

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Crazy for Cinema

Though I'm a fan of both Jane Austen and drawing room comedies, I have to admit the only reason I sat through this classic flick was to see Laurence Olivier....read the complete Pride and Prejudice (1940) review at Crazy for Cinema

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Time Out (--)

An adaptation of the Helen Jerome play based on Jane Austen's novel, which may well make Austenites quiver at its infidelities and occasional insensitivities (not to mention the perhaps inevitable blurring of the subtler social ironies), but is surprising...read the complete Pride and Prejudice (1940) review at Time Out (--)

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