The Importance Of Being Earnest (Wendy Hiller) part 1 of 11

[SivVulk]

if anyone would like a copy of this particular edition on DVD I can make one for you!

[ElGingerNinja]

whos doing this for AS level drama?

[ReindeerOfTheRoc123]

@ElGingerNinja GCSE last year.

[Sword1479]

We just started reading this in Drama. Oscar Wilde was a genius.

[cooliosurfer1]

I got high as fuckkkk and I just kept imagining that they stewie saying all this with his friends lol

[MrSaqr98]

thank you

[TheLightsandcandy]

@anonymoussourceLOL im playing Cecily in *my* school play! :D

[DamnHotChocolate]

@TheLightsandcandy im playing cecily in my school play, too! :D

[AusTiNbLAkEfaUlKNer]

i have to read the book in English. she told me to watch it tooo.

[AnonymoussourceL0L]

I'm playing Algernon in my school play :D

[friulano]

Who needs a laugh track for This, surely needs a laugh track for his poor gray stupid life

[FictionAbe]

lonely island anyone??

[LEGOMANIAC419]

"Don't touch the cucumber sandwiches! Their for Aunt Augusta!"

"You've been chompin' 'em down."

"That's different--she's MY aunt."

Lol'd.

[dongjunh]

I have just read the play and watched this version. What a Masterpiece! Both the play and the interpretation! A pity that it isn't commercially available!

[vulcanchama]

the reason i looked this play up on youtube is because we recently did it at school tomarrow we tear down the set im so disappointed

[mennyus]

am i the only one who finds them far too old for these roles? anyway, thank you for the upload, it's quite helpful and thankfully very loyal to the play

[Sarcasmize]

doing this as a drama class play and it's honestly so hilarious if you get the jokes- such a fantastic play! I'm playing Lady Bracknell who is such as senile old lady it's amazing!

[abisivepoo]

Would anyone reccommend this for a 14 year old boy, i looked it up and it seems to be quite good.

[JJayradd]

i have a drama play which is for my big essay which im doing tommorow :D this helped me soo much :D

[vibol03]

lol in my english class, i volunteered to play jack and it was a fun experience! very funny play

[11strelokfan1000]

Oscar Wilde is the Irish Shakespeare! A true genius in writing plays.

[MangaCaat]

i just started reading this play at school & i totally LOVE it! a loooove Algy x3! <3

[ThatStrangeDude]

I watched this in english class today and afterwards I wanted to kill myself. What a boring piece of shit. Why couldn't we watch awesome movies like Commando? Or Anal Rape 5: The return of Max Dick?

[MangaCaat]

@ThatStrangeDude  ¬¬

[abisivepoo]

@ThatStrangeDude I guess that is because you are ignorant and uncultured, i see people like you all the time in my school and it discusts me, i weep for the future.

[itstristanyo]

@ThatStrangeDude obvious troll is obvious. you should stop speaking like a dentist. it produces a false impression

[MrTodd623]

12 people were quite exploded.

--I mean found out. >.>

[voltagesquirrel]

the jokes in this are so bad that it needs a laughtrack

[Kidzilla99]

@voltagesquirrel Just poorly delivered. It's supposed to be obvious. They speak it too plainly, almost as if we're just supposed to think it's funny on its own delivered matter-of-factly.... also I do think it needs a laugh track. That would work well.. lol

[voltagesquirrel]

gary is one letter away from gay....

[Agapantha]

The guys playing Jack and Algernon REALLY need to swap roles...

[Issun9000]

to be honest i thought it was incredibly boring and not funny at all

[Ceminon]

This is pretty much the gayest fucking shit ever. All you haughty faggots, go suck a dick.

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[mylestoby2]

@Ceminon well to be honest this whole play has a constant homosexual undertone

[Issun9000]

@mylestoby2

thats a very light way to express it ^^

[underfirefly]

@mylestoby2 do you reckon that's because Wilde was secretly gay? it's like he's making a point about the private and public life. I'm not being a troll by the way, I'm doing an exam on this and am seriously asking.

[mylestoby2]

@underfirefly sort of in that time a (slang) word for gay was Ernest

[underfirefly]

@mylestoby2 Oh really? cool, danke!

[flutterbunny]

The comedic delivery is so crisp and perfect. I like this much better than the movie. Thanks for posting!

[MrSchpounz]

I've seen it on Broadway !! Much better than the old fashion version.

[ABCDEFGHIJKLMN01231]

This is probably the best version.

[LenntBear]

For those of you that find this boring, look up the 1986 version. It's much better!! The characters don't all seem like pretentious assholes.

[Mirrorwind]

"Suggestions: Jason Statham." Hahaha, what?

[Emzo99]

my favourite version.

[niveen74]

me 2 ;)

[Emzo99]

What piano piece was that?

[MoonMankkkkkk]

@Emzo99

I do believe it was Liszt's piano sonata.

[Nerdzz100]

OMG THIS IS BORING UGHH D: BUT I HAVE TO READ IT FOR ENGLISH HONORS!

[Romeowasbleeding1]

@Nerdzz100

Boring??????

This is fantastic!

[hairysuit]

@Nerdzz100

Whoever could find this most exquisitely witty gem a bore is most exquisitely deficient in wit.

[LordAlda]

Personally, I think the 1986 version was the best.

[bgirl19872]

Thank you for this I couldn't find it anywhere and I need to watch it for my college.

[RedWings4Life33]

just read this in my theatre class...hilarious

[arehumansgood]

this is painful to watch

[Emzo99]

@arehumansgood ?

[veralau93]

"There are only two kinds of people who are really

fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people

who know absolutely nothing."

-- Oscar Wilde

[silverbud]

Sorry, but those are not cucumber sandwiches at all. ;-)

[febuangulo]

My name is Earnest in Town and Jack in the Country....COOOL

[hifromneptune]

Thank you!

[himarx]

This is the one and the same Jeremy Clyde who teamed with Chad Stewart in the 60's as a pop duo who enjoyed moderate success with handful of hits.

[ThatBobbsyGuy]

jeremy clyde - absolutely nailed the part of algernon

[louisecp72]

Two great actors and singers together. Jeremy Clyde is always fun to watch and how we miss the late Gary Bond. Great video and thanks for sharing!

[bluethunder25]

I read this play a few time in college and let me tell you, this doesn't make a whole lick of sense.

[nankerphelge718]

that's because you're a dumbass. did you drop out or something?

[stew631]

i listened to the audio version of this play and it sounds pretty much like a episode of seinfeld lol

[Jacquee9]

Gary Bond - one of my favourites - where is he now?

[louisecp72]

@Jacquee9 Gary died in 1995. Sorry.

[Jacquee9]

Gary Bond - one of my favourites - where is he now?

[Jacquee9]

Gary Bond - one of my favourites - where is he now?

[RunLiberty]

Oscar Wilde was a libertarian individualist type "The only society worth

cultivating is the individual."

[burf69]

I smoked a bunch of weed and then watched this the whole time imagining that it was set in the present day. Do you ever do stuff like that? It's pretty funny.

[faca4ever]

niceeeeeeeee

[Sixalienasa]

@burf69 Locoweed surely!

[henioslawa]

haha I play in this in theatre, i play Cecily xDD

[gosssipgurl]

i love this play cuz of the way the humour is placed it may make the characters seem intelligent and foolish making u understand oscar wildes motives 4 creating this play

[ornleifs]

The Greatest Play ever, almost every line is quoteable and this is a very good version of it.

[ToddRJones]

Thanks for posting, I have an audition for this in a few weeks and I was totally unfamiliar with the play.

[openingstar]

Have never seen Jeremy speak with his mouth full before this. Quite good. Many . many thanks for posting. I really enjoy this !

[SweetSueOhio1]

Does anyone recognize the guy in the gray suit? Thats jeremy Clyde (From Chad And jeremy). I think he is fantastic!

[lexmark2300]

pne of the best comic plays ever

[Joestn77]

the actors move too quickly through their lines and don't think enough about what they are saying.

and is the guy playing algernon the same guy that was the operator for the super computer in willy wonka?

[guitarcapo]

Yep. Way to stiff. They don't have any comic timing.

A little more Monty Python about things would help.

[julesandsands]

Everybody's accents are so vulgar and common and 1970s. Listen to original version with Geilgud, Dame Edith Evans etc. Still, good production of a delghtful play. Thanks for posting!

[gomongio]

This is such a fantastic play... what a genius named Oscar Wilde!!!

[XbrittniX]

Thank you for providing the entire play! It was a great help!

[Soroka]

My favourite scene in the whole play! I love those two.

[SemprerFi]

thank you so much for uploading!

[missoriginality2]

Ernest doesnt look like an Ernest!!!

[beggo321]

This is amazing. I love seeing the live version after reading the play

[istroublebrewing]

awesome now i don't have to read the play get to watch it :D

[ParArdua]

Please read the play as well!

[applejelly87]

@ParArdua Why? It was meant to be seen, not read.

[nealezumm]

@ParArdua What an astonishingly queer proposition! Plays are most definitely not meant to be read.

[ArmsAkimbo5]

Probably good to actually read the play, but this is a great way to review! I have my exam in a few days...

[allnamesaretaken4]

oh god my exam is in 8 hours and i havent read it god im screwed

[attaintruefreedom]

Indeed!!! He looks very much rather like a Horatio!

[in2ennui]

Had I not just read this very scene, I would have surely missed parts of this convoluted dialogue. Although I love plays...no written word is left behind, because it was meant to be acted! Most especially Oscar Wilde's words should not be left unsaid!

Also: Why does that very small tray hold so many sandwiches...a seemingly endless supply despite Algernon's continuous nibbling?

AND: Why have they not ENGLISH accents?

[daichi2097]

Quote: "AND: Why have they not ENGLISH accents? "

What makes you believe the accents are not English? They are unmistakenly so!

[in2ennui]

Well obviously I am not English...and I can hardly argue with you since you are...I will take your word for it, since I do realize that England has many dialects.

However, to my own untrained ears this just sounds like very nuanced speech that any American could employ.

[ParArdua]

There are many English accents. Some people from Lancashire for example who are separated by a valley, have very different accents, almost a separate dialect.

The accents in this film are feigned 'upper class'.

The BBC Ballads are a great place to start in a study of English accents. Pygmalion and My Fair Lady (US) are also interesting.

[in2ennui]

I knew already that accents abound in England! Thank you for the recommendation ,although I don't have any plans to study different accents... I love the cockney accent from My Fair Lady...I have not seen Pygmalion...

I did not know upper class sounded like this...it is quite different from my only English accent connection: Period dramas and actors like Hugh Grant, Kiera Knightley, Parminder Nagra...

[sybilvane74]

Not only is this one of my all-time favourite plays, it is also incredibly hard to find any footage of the great actor Jeremy Clyde.

Thank you so much for sharing :-)!

[ShakespeareAndMore]

you pushed me to look up Jeremy Clyde--I had no idea he's had such a fine acting career and a very successful singing one too!

[fearnlol]

im doing this as a play at my school it's gonna be ace!!! im gwendowlen and maid 4 rose!

[AlexofZippo]

"A bunburyist?"

[voodoo208]

anyone know where i can get piano recordings like this?? we are putting the play on in my school and i need to find the piano part to put in the play

[SgtPepperGirl]

lol I love this. Oscar Wilde is brilliant.

[911NJ]

Thanks ShakespeareAndMore, you're awesome, that helped a looot in undersyanding the play..I study it ;)

[Chachewie]

this is going to be our school play! woohoo!

[labanlieusarde09]

thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank you !!!!!!!!!1

like evryone else here i was searching for the movie , now i got something to watch .^^

thanks , loved the story , looooooooove oscar wilde

[legomaster221]

lol

i am doing this for a school play and i am the Dr. Chasuble!

so cool!

[Izldr]

Jack and Algernon are hialrious to play...especially this scene with the cigarette case

[moogla1992]

I love you! I have been studying the play and cannot find the film until now! -bear hug-

[artemisakadiana]

definitelyyy!! same case heree

thx sooo much!

[pineapplewhipaddict]

Excellent! Thank you for sharing this rare gem with us!

[tarnopol]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this!