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Synopsis: Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice, and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Robert Z. Leonard
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
APPROVED
Year:
1940
118 min
2,913 Views


Oh, there he is!

Now, come along, girls!

Don't dawdle!

Stay where you are, Jennings!

Stay where you are!

We don't have time to lose!

Look, Mama!

Lady Lucas's carriage!

Pass them, Batings! Pass them!

Overtake them, Jennings!

Overtake them!

That's it, Jennings! That's it!

That will teach her a lesson!

Keep on going, Jennings!

I must tell your Papa

about the visit!

There's no time to lose!

Ah, go to the drawing room,

girls.

Matthews, could you help

polish the chaise.

Mr. Bennet! Mr. Bennet!

Mr. Bennet!

Yes, my dear?

Mr. Bennet! Netherfield Park

has been let at last!

Uh-hmm.

Did you hear me?

Netherfield Park

has been let at last!

Indeed, Mrs. Bennet?

Well, don't you want to hear

who's taken it?

Well, if you want to tell me,

I have no objection

to hearing it.

Mr. Bingley is his name.

And it seems he's a young man

of large fortune!

And he's single, my dear!

Think of it!

What a fine thing for our girls!

Is it?

Mr. Bennet, you know

perfectly well what I mean.

I am thinking of his

marrying one of our daughters.

Oh! Is that his design

in settling here?

How can you talk so, Mr. Bennet?

This is a serious matter!

You must go

and visit him at once!

You and the girls go.

Or, better still,

send the girls by themselves.

But you're as handsome

as any of them.

And Mr. Bingley

may like you best of all!

Well, my dear, you flatter me.

When a woman

has five grown-up daughters,

she ought to give over

thinking of her own beauty.

Well, in most such cases,

a woman hasn't much beauty

to think of, my dear.

Now, seriously, Mr. Bennet,

you must go and see Mr. Bingley!

If you don't,

Sir William and Lady Lucas

will get there before us!

You should have seen her

galloping her horses

to beat me from the village

just now.

Did she win?

Hah! Indeed, she did not!

But, she'd stop at nothing

to get Mr. Bingley

interested in her Charlotte.

Well, I'll tell you

what I'll do, my dear.

I'll write to assure him

of my hearty consent

to his marrying whichever

he chooses of the girls.

Though I must saw in a good word

for my Lizzie.

Elizabeth is not one wit

better than the others.

But you always

give her the preference!

Oh! They're all silly

and ignorant like most girls.

Ahh!

But Lizzie has some

glimmering of success.

Mr. Bennet! How could you

abuse your own children

in such a way?

You think of ways of vexing me!

You've no compassion!

And, my poor nerves!

Oh! You mistake me, my dear.

I have the highest respect

for your nerves.

I have heard you

mention them with consideration

for the last twenty years.

How can you be so resigned

to your daughters

growing up to be

penniless old maids?

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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family. He graduated from Balliol College at the University of Oxford with a first-class honours degree in English literature. The author of nearly fifty books, Huxley was best known for his novels (among them Brave New World, set in a dystopian future); for nonfiction works, such as The Doors of Perception, in which he recalls his experiences taking psychedelic drugs; and for his wide-ranging essays. Early in his career, Huxley published short stories and poetry, and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry. He went on to publish travel writing, film stories, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.Huxley was a humanist and pacifist. He became interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism, and in particular universalism. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. In 1962, a year before he died, Huxley was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature. more…

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