Major Barbara

Name: Major Barbara
Genre: Comedy
Released: May 6, 1941
Duration: 121 min
Rating: 73

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United Artists | Release Date: May 6, 1941 | Approved

Summary: 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.

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Approved

Runtime: 121 min

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100

Bosley Crowther

This is something more than just a brilliant and adult translation of a stimulating play, something more than a captivating compound of ironic humor and pity. This is a lasting memorial to the devotion of artists working under fire, a permanent proof for posterity that it takes more than bombs to squelch the English wit. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Valuable as a fine performance of an important and delightful play, MAJOR BARBARA makes for bracingly intelligent cinema. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Although this thesis produces a lot of talk in Major Barbara, it is the kind of talk that cinemaddicts seldom hear—brilliant, provocative, richly comic. It is solidly backed up by a baker’s dozen of superb acting performances. Read full review

Don Druker

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. Read full review

Empire David Parkinson

A bit theatrical in places, which is not surprising when you consider its provenence but it suffers for it. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

Pauline Kael

Terrible, but bearable; there's a fascination to its clunkiness.

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