Major Barbara (1941)
1941 · Feature film · 121 min · dir. Gabriel Pascal
- Comedy
Synopsis
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Gabriel Pascal
- Writer
- George Bernard Shaw
- Composer
- William Walton
- Studio
- Gabriel Pascal Productions
- Released
- 1941-05-14
- Awards
- 1 nomination
- Running time
- 121 minutes
Cast & crew
- Gabriel Pascal Director
Wendy Hiller
Rex Harrison
Robert Morley
Robert Newton
Sybil Thorndike
Emlyn Williams
Marie Lohr
Penelope Dudley-Ward
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Starring Rex Harrison, Wendy Hiller.... · comissaris · 2019-04-08
Robert Morley, Robert Newton (probably best known as Long John Silver) and written by George Bernard Shaw, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 or 26, I forget which. His play Pygmalion was the basis for My Fair Lady which also starred Rex Harrison. All of which is strangely missing in the film's description but the reason I'll give it five stars.
