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Major Barbara (Original title)
Date: 04 August 1941 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Gabriel Pascal

Synopsis: The moral conflict in the mind of a Salvation Army girl when tempted by her millionaire father with his own approach to saving souls. From the play by G. Bernard Shaw.

Genre:
Comedy

Subject:
Salvation Army
Releases
Date: 1941Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 121 mins Length: 10886 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (35)
Production Company: Pascal Film Productions, Producer: Gabriel Pascal, [Assistant Production Manager]: George Maynard, Assistant in Production: Stanley Haynes, Assistant in Direction: Harold French, David Lean, [Assistant Director]: Teddy Baird, [Assistant Director]: Jack Clayton, [Assistant Director]: Jack Hicks, [Assistant Director]: Jack Rix, Peter Graham Scott, Dialogue Supervisor: Harold French, Scenario Editor: Marjorie Deans, Scenario and Dialogue: Bernard Shaw, [Director of some scenes]: David Lean, From his own play: Bernard Shaw, Photography: Ronald Neame, [Camera Operator]: Jack Hildyard, [Camera Assistant]: Lionel H. Wheeler, Editor: Charles Frend, Montage: David Lean, Production Designer: Vincent Korda, Art Director: John Bryan, [Assistant Art Director]: Joseph Bato, Ferdinand Bellan, Costumes: Cecil Beaton, [Make-up]: Geoffrey Rodway, Michael Morris, Music: William Walton, Music Director: Muir Mathieson, [Orchestrations]: Roy Douglas, Recording Director: Martin Paggi, [Sound Editor]: Harry Miller, Studio: Denham Studios
Cast (24)
Wendy Hiller (Major Barbara), Rex Harrison (Adolphus Cusins), Robert Morley (Andrew Underschaft), Robert Newton (Bill Walker), Emlyn Williams (Snobby Price), Sybil Thorndike (The General), Marie Löhr (Lady Britomart), Penelope Dudley Ward (Sarah Underschaft), Walter Hudd (Stephen Underschaft), David Tree (Charles Lomax), Deborah Kerr (Jenny Hill), Donald Calthrop (Peter Shirley), Marie Ault (Rummy Mitchens), Cathleen Cordell (Mog' Habbijam), Torin Thatcher (Todger Fairmile), Miles Malleson (Morrison), Felix Aylmer (James), Stanley Holloway (policeman), S.I. Hsiung (Ling), Kathleen Harrison (Mrs Price), Mary Morris (a girl), Charles Victor (Bilton), O.B. Clarence (Pettigrew), Edward Rigby ([man on quayside])