Director: Gabriel Pascal
Release Date: April 1941
On 12 June 1940 the Kinematograph Weekly noted that ‘On Sunday [9 June] a large crowd of extras under Gabriel Pascal’s personal direction mobilised at St. Katharine’s wharf [Wapping].’ The 1 August 1940 issue of Kinematograph Weekly reported that ‘Bernard Shaw made his entrance at the Albert Hall on Friday last [26 July], when the big Salvation Army scenes were being shot for “Major Barbara”.’ The report noted that Gabriel Pascal and Sybil Thorndike joined Shaw, celebrating his eighty-fourth birthday, who received ‘a terrific reception as he made his way to a seat in the front row. He disappeared, however, before the scene was shot.’ Yet two days later Shaw wrote to Pascal, giving ‘My apologies for interfering on Friday. I tried to keep quiet; but I suddenly felt 20 years younger, and couldn’t.’
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Robert Newton on St. Katherine Wharf, Wapping, with Tower Bridge in the distance.
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Newton on St. Katherine Wharf with the entrance to St. Katherine Dock behind him.
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St. Katherine Wharf and Tower Bridge.
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Torin Thatcher preaches on St. Katherine Wharf, with Cathleen Cordell at his side, and the view across the Upper Pool with Bermondsey in the distance.
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The Salvation Army meeting at the Albert Hall.
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Sybil Thorndike preaching at the Albert Hall.
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Rex Harrison, at right, preparing to leave the Albert Hall.
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Cars speed around Marble Arch with the Oxford Street corner of Park Lane in the distance.
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The cars speed out of the Marble Arch junction into Edgware Road.
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The view east as the cars speed out of Chiswick High Road at the Chiswick Roundabout.
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As the camera pans to the left St James's Church, Chiswick High Road, comes into frame.
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The cars exit the roundabout into the Great West Road.