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