Major Barbara1941
Major Barbara (1941)
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Cast
as Major Barbara Undershaft
as Adolphus Cusins
as Andrew Undershaft
as Snobby Price
as Bill Walker
as The General
as Jenny Hill
as Charles Lomax
as Sarah Undershaft
as Lady Brittomart
as Stephen Undershaft
as Rummy Mitchens
as Peter Shirley
as Mog Habbijam
as Todger Fairmile
as Morrison
as James
as Policeman
as Mrs. Price
as A Girl
as Man on Quayside
Critic Reviews for Major Barbara
All Critics (14) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (2)
The result is a cinema treat.
Adapted from an old Shaw play, circa 1905, it still carries the lightning thrusts of Shavian caustic satire at any and all levels.
There is plenty to relish, notably Newton and Morley hamming it up (as, respectively, the rumbustious Bill Walker and the overbearing tycoon), and Deborah Kerr in her debut; but it does tend to just sit there.
To call it a manifest triumph would be arrant stinginess with words.
Though a bit slow to start and overlong (GBS added 18 minutes to the screenplay), this is still an enthusiastic and intelligent rendering of the wonderful Shavian wit and sense of the ridiculous.
[A] superb screen adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's morality study about the Salvation Army and armaments manufacture.
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