Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Review from nytimes.com
Long before 19th-century novelist Jane Austen became a hot property in Hollywood, MGM produced this opulent and entertaining adaptation of one of Austen's best-known novels. The elegant and slyly satirical comedy of manners gets under way when socially conscious Mrs. Bennet (Mary Boland), with the begrudging assistance of her husband (Edmund Gwenn), begins seeking out suitable (and suitably wealthy) husbands for her five daughters: Elizabeth (Greer Garson), Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan), Lydia (Ann Rutherford), Kitty (Heather Angel), and Mary (Marsha Hunt). One of the least likely matrimonial prospects is Mr. Darcy (Laurence Olivier), a rich, handsome, but cynical and boorish young man....more

Review from imdb
The original is the best

Pride and Prejudice is a familiar story - if not read in high school literature class, one can see the theme in dozens of other films: A meddling mother tries to marry off her daughter(s) to "suitable" man, the man and woman fight and all turns out at the end with mayhem ensuing between the first and final acts.

There have been several versions of Pride and Prejudice, two of which I had seen before this film and after viewing the 1940 version starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier it is clear that this...more

Review from ./christiananswers.net
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Review from ./christianitytoday.com
The Academy Awards are coming up soon. What's your choice for Best Picture? was being released. Why, when the 1995 A&amp;E/BBC version is considered the gold standard? Why, when Colin Firth simply is Mr. Darcy? Thankfully, director Joe Wright doesn't try to fix anything. Think of it this way: The A&amp;E/BBC version is like a family portrait&#151;a stunningly lit, artistically framed photograph that captures the family so true to life. This new 2005 version is more like an impressionist painting of the family&#151;less detail and depth, but when you look at it from different angles, various shadings and nuance catch...more

Review from ./reel.com
Ten years after Colin Firth smoldered his way into Jennifer Ehle's and viewers' hearts in the BBC's superb Pride and Prejudice miniseries, Jane Austen's classic comedy of manners gets the big screen treatment in Joe Wright's grandly entertaining adaptation of the author's most beloved novel. Sumptuously produced and terrifically acted, this lively and pricelessly funny depiction of a fiery romance in Regency-era England is an across-the-board triumph. Screenwriter Deborah Moggach faithfully captures Austen's astute observations of class in 18th-century England, when being an unmarried woman of "inferior birth" was regarded as a one-way ticket to abject poverty. Although Moggach and Wright...more