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Major Barbara (GB, Gabriel Pascal, 1941)
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Production company: A Gabriel Pascal Production
Country: Britain
Running Time: 131 minutes
Producer: Gabriel Pascal
Director: Gabriel Pascal
Screenplay: Anatole De Grunwald, Gabriel Pascal
Dialogue and Scenario: George Bernard Shaw
Based on the play by George Bernard Shaw
CAST
Wendy Hiller as Barbara
Rex Harrison as Adolphus (Dolly) Cusins
Robert Morley as Underschaft
With
Emlyn Williams as Snobby Price
Donald Calthrop as Peter Shirley
Deborah Kerr as Jenny Hill
And
Robert Newton as Bill Walker
Sybil Thorndike as The General
Marie Lohr as Lady Britomart
Penelope Dudley-Ward as Sarah Underschaft
Walter Hudd as Stephen Underschaft
David Tree as Charles Lomax
Marie Ault Rummy Mitchins
Cathleen Cordell as Mog’ Habbijam
Torin Thatcher as Todger Fairmile
Kathleen Harrison as Mrs Price
SYNOPSIS
Barbara (Wendy Hiller) is dedicated to the Salvation Army and her principles. She works in a shelter for the poor with Jenny Hill (Deborah Kerr), offering bread, hope and faith. Snobby Price (Emlyn Williams) and Rummy Mitchins (Marie Ault) are helping out at the shelter for their own ends – pretending to have been saved from a life a wickedness! Peter Shirley (Donald Calthrop) is a proud, honest, hardworking man thrown out of his job for being too old. Bill Walker (Robert Newton) is an aggressive young man with a chip on his shoulder. Barbara wants to help these men in practical ways, but more important to her is that she save their souls.
Underschaft (Robert Morley) enters and turns Barbara’s principles upside down. When the Salvation Army General (Sybil Thorndike) informs everyone that wealthy distiller, Bodger, will donate £50,000 to the shelter if five other donations can be found. Arm’s merchant Underschaft agrees to make the first £10,000 and encourage others to donate at the big rally. Barbara is appalled that the General would accept money from the people she feels is responsible for the misery of the poor. However, the Salvation Army cannot exist if they only accept ‘clean’ money. Barbara’s whole system of belief is crushed and she resigns.
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Reviews
Rating: 4/5
Ilsa
July 2005
Ilsa
July 2005
Lois
July 2005
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