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Saloon Bar is a 1940 British 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] 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 they trace how the note came to be there and manage to unmask the true killer.

Saloon Bar
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	Ealing Studios
Distributed by	Associated British Film Distributors
Release date	November 2, 1940
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

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.

Plot

An amateur detective tries to clear an innocent man of a crime before the date of his execution.[3]

Cast

References

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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