| Saloon Bar | |
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| Directed by | Walter Forde |
| Written by | John Dighton Angus MacPhail |
| Based on | Saloon Bar by Frank Harvey |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon Culley Forde |
| Starring | Gordon Harker Elizabeth Allan Mervyn Johns |
| Cinematography | Ronald Neame |
| Edited by | Ray Pitt |
| Music by | Ernest Irving |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Associated British Film Distributors |
Release date | November 2, 1940 |
Running time | 76 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Saloon Bar is a 1940 British comedy thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Gordon Harker, Elizabeth Allan and Mervyn Johns. It was made by Ealing Studios and its style has led to comparisons with the later Ealing Comedies, unlike other wartime Ealing films which are different in tone.[1] It is based on the 1939 play of the same name by Frank Harvey in which Harker had also starred.[2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Wilfred Shingleton.
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Plot
An amateur detective tries to clear an innocent man of a crime before the date of his execution.[3]
The action takes place over one evening in the saloon bar of a London pub, just before Christmas. The regulars discuss the forthcoming execution for robbery and murder of the boyfriend of one of the barmaids. A pound note from the robbery is found in the till. Convinced of the condemned man's innocence, and led by bookie Joe Harris, they trace how the note came to be there and unmask the true killer.
Cast
- Gordon Harker as Joe Harris
- Elizabeth Allan as Queenie
- Mervyn Johns as Wickers
- Joyce Barbour as Sally
- Anna Konstam as Ivy
- Cyril Raymond as Harry Small
- Judy Campbell as Doris
- Al Millen as Fred
- Norman Pierce as Bill Hoskins
- Alec Clunes as Eddie Graves
- Mavis Villiers as Joan
- Felix Aylmer as Mayor
- O. B. Clarence as Sir Archibald
- Aubrey Dexter as Major
- Helena Pickard as Mrs Small
- Manning Whiley as Evangelist
- Laurence Kitchin as Peter
- Roddy Hughes as Doctor
- Gordon James as Jim
- Annie Esmond as Mrs. Truscott
- Eliot Makeham as Meek Man
- Roddy McDowall as Boy
- Julie Suedo as Eleanor
- Torin Thatcher as Mr. Garrod
References
- ^ Murphy p.209-210
- ^ "Production of Saloon Bar | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ^ "Saloon Bar". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
- Bibliography
- Murphy, Robert. Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48. Routledge, 1992.
External links
- Saloon Bar at IMDb
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