Saloon Bar

Saloon Bar
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Directed by	Walter Forde
Produced by	Culley Forde (producer)
Written by	John Dighton (writer) Frank Harvey (play) Angus MacPhail (writer)
Starring	See below
Music by	Ernest Irving
Cinematography	Ronald Neame
Edited by	Ray Pitt
Release dates	1940 (1940)
Running time	99 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Saloon Bar is a 1940 British thriller film directed by Walter Forde. 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.

Plot summary

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

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

References

Bibliography

• Murphy, Robert. Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48. Routledge, 1992.

External links

• Saloon Bar at IMDb
• Saloon Bar is available for free download at the Internet Archive