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Major Barbara is a 1941 British comedy film starring Wendy Hiller and Rex Harrison. The film was produced and directed by Gabriel Pascal and edited by David Lean. It was adapted for the screen by Marjorie Deans and Anatole de Grunwald, based on the 1905 stage play Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw. It was both a critical and financial success.
PLOT
The daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft (Robert Morley), idealistic young Barbara (Wendy Hiller) rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins (Rex Harrison), Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father’s perspective. Based on the play by George Bernard Shaw, the film’s comedic social commentary pulls no punches.
CAST
Wendy Hiller as Major Barbara Undershaft
Rex Harrison as Adolphus Cusins
Robert Morley as Andrew Undershaft
Robert Newton as Bill Walker
Sybil Thorndike as The General
Emlyn Williams as Snobby Price
Miles Malleson as Morrison, the butler
Stanley Holloway as a Policeman
Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Price
Donald Calthrop as Peter Shirley
Marie Lohr as Lady Britomart
Marie Ault as Rummy Mitchens
Penelope Dudley-Ward as Sarah Undershaft
Walter Hudd as Stephen Undershaft
David Tree as Charles Lomax
Deborah Kerr as Jenny Hill
[The poster in the thumbnail is not English, but used it since it looks way better than the English versions]
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So Eliza from My Fair Lady #1 with prof Higgins from My Fair Lady #2..much better couple
Gad puke vomit
Where's the health and safety inspector now!! No hard hats in those days, no safety glasses, yet no one gets burnt. Good old British film. Love it. 👍👍
Wendy Hiller is very lovely. Decades later as an old lady in All Passion Spent she is still lovely.
During the Salvation Army revivalist meeting Elmer Gantry would be in his element.
"Won't you come to the mission, won't you come? You'll get a free cup of tea and a bun".
It’s amazing watching these films on you tube
7:38 men will be men. Be it Poet Shaw's time or of just this time…😉
Comedy. Imdb rating 6,8. A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father's business. A comedy with social commentary.
Deborah Kerr's first movie appearance. She'd done one before this but all her scenes were cut.
This is an eye opening glimpse of the elite and how they actually live and feel LISTEN CAREFULLY TO WHAT THEY SAY, they don't believe in Gid don't want to hear about him and worship other things like ISIS and yes they actually say it. They are so DISCONNECTED in a unintrusive sort of way. Must wow it's actually so much more noticeable in these old movies then the new, the new ones it's more in product placement or symbols back then they just said it. Unbelievable.
Many who posted here laud the film and it might have deservd the praise had not Hiller turned into a turd at about 1:09
It's wonderful to watch all these major actors and actresses in their beginnings. Thanks for posting 🎞️🎬📽️
Who is studying English literature here?
This film is so typically British bright stars, humorous moments and wonderfully entertaining.
WONDERFUL GEM, THANK YOU.
Great channel discovery!!
A classic of its day: first class acting by one & all. Not one to be missed.
Well since, as a Salvationist myself, I happen to know we don't drink, Rex Harrison's character is not a very good example.
This isn’t my favorite play by Shaw, which to me is deadly dull on the page….it need actors talking 100mph to put life into the words, lol! Rex Harrison speaks so fast that I’m always tempted to slow the thing down! There’s an unreality to the subjects under debate, and I’ve never been comfortable with Barbara’s sudden flip-flop in philosophy, which strikes a false note right at the end, negating all of her previous arguments. It’s a volte face which is so convenient, a neat tucking in of ends better left out! As though people who are well fed are also spiritually starving….there’s no justification there.
Wonderful insights. To "make war on war" now that's a new one for me. Truly inspirational.
Advanced concepts here.