Major Barbara - Full Movie - GREAT QUALITY (1941) 

One of the best scenes of the play is on the movie but cut in this version where he reviews the family mottos

I agree, but I don't think screenwriters have sufficient vocabulary to write anything more!

@@wyominghome4857 I was thinking simmilar.

Would be so wonderful, to have the vulgar world of today learn to speak civilly to one another.

The source material was written by George Bernard Shaw!

Actually black n white films shud come back

The volume is rather low.

@@Jivanmuktishu what?

I've never had the opportunity to see that, but I really liked her performance the following year in 1987, as Mrs. Harris in "Anne of Avonlea".

She was hotly tipped for a BAFTA award for 'All Passion Spent'. When some other actress won, she got up and swept out of the ceremony.

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Yes! Thank you, the whole way through this I was trying to figure out who she reminded me of!

Did environmental testing in such, found them impressive and always respected and admired those, seemed to be all of them men, who labored in them.

Did you notice that the actor who plays the Bobby in the opening scene played Eliza Doolittle's father in My Fair Lady?

@@wyominghome4857 Stanley Holloway 😊

For my 10th birthday in 1958 my parents took me to a show based on Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw. Two of the stars of the show were also together in this film: Rex Harrison and Stanley Holloway. That show was My Fair Lady - my first live theater experience. Great place to start!

She looks so young I almost didn't recognize her. The same for Robert Newton. I'd never heard him say anything that didn't start with, "Arrr!"

Ahh, I saw a very young Judi Dench, in a similar role, in a version of Sherlock Holmes, I think it was Ronald Howard's.

I'd love to see her 'Z Cars'!!

except those who are not strictly heterosexual. That leaves a full ten percent or more of the entire human race on whom the Salvation Army turn their 'Christian' backs.

@@luvcatscatscatsCATS It's lies like this spread by hateful individuals intent on divisiveness that leave no place for open, honest discussion.

@@aceragain I wholeheartedly welcome this comment. I did indeed have outdated info. I looked it up. I very much appreciate the correction. It is an excellent lesson for me to do research before opening my mouth. Best of all, the mature and thoughtful manner in which you worded your reply allows all readers to respond in kind. Thank you, Richard!

Elise Curran bless you! I wish all movies had annotated notes to their soundtracks!

(opera by Gaetano Donizetti). 1:10

I agree. Sometimes l think RM was born old. 😄

Shaw came on the set of Harrison filming of his stories.

so what was omitted??

What was omitted????? :)

No, Salvationists don't believe that. We believe in the Biblical passages that salvation comes through belief in Jesus. This is a decent film and perhaps things changed in eighty years, but there are definite departures from Salvation doctrine. The core (helping others, counseling people and encouraging spiritual growth) is unchanged though.

George Bernard Shaw

Was it Shaw's signing a letter to the movie viewers near the beginning of the film that gave you a clue?

It's got all the hallmarks of that play written by a man who notes all the juicy facts and is not only unable to really put a story of real hope and progress together from them,( film is a failure there )vbut has to try to force his vain cynicism on people who do learn to trust God and avoid the unproductive .

And.... Not so bad.

How did you read what I wrote, and saw anything in it to use as a springboard into an anti-Semitic rant? Nothing I said portrays Jews in a negative light. If you are upset that the Jews claim to be chosen by God, you are wasting your emotional energies, because the bible clearly says that they are. God chose them for four purposes, three of which the bible explicitly says, the last one, is left unspecified, but is clear from the narrative. The main purpose that the Jews served was to provide a family for the Messiah to be born into. The next one was to be a nation that demonstrated moral purity to the rest of the world. The third purpose is the one that is not explicitly stated in the bible. It is that they were to demonstrate that no matter how much exposure humans have to God, they will behave badly. The bible goes into far too much detail showing how they messed up, over and over. What is to be learned is not that the Jews were especially bad, but that they were especially typical. Had God chosen any other family, they would have behaved just as badly, and probably worse. In fact one group that illustrates how bad people are is the Canaanites. God ordered the Israelites to kill all of the Canaanites. Many people hear that and say God is evil for doing that. What they don't bother to research is that the Canaanites were taking their first born sons and burning them alive as a sacrifice to their god. In that bit of text I reveal that not only are the ancient Canaanites enemies of God, but so are people who condemn God for ordering the Canaanites to be wiped out. That is how common it is for people to hate God. The Canaanites were not alone, other groups around the world had human sacrifices. Many killed children, but killing adults was common as well. Many cultures killed a dead man's wife at his funeral. Cannibalism was more common than you might think. Before Christianity, and its influence, spread around the world, humans all over did a variety of nasty things. And I will be the first to point out that Christianity, with it's high moral standards, barely slowed down the warring between supposedly "Christian" countries. So even Christians are messed up. The point is that all people are messed up, and that is the third purpose that God used the Jews for. The last thing on my list that God chose the Jews for, was to show his mercy to messed up people. He did that for Jews, almost exclusively at first, but since Christ came and died to pay for sins, God has expanded his mercy to all who would believe in Jesus as their savior. Salvation through faith in Christ is available to Jews, and non-Jews, all around the world. That demonstrates God's great mercy, which he has expanded to all peoples. Since Jesus came, the 'choseness' of the Jews has been put on the back burner. They will be at the center once more in the future, after Messiah Jesus, comes again. But until then, the metric of "Choseness" is faith in Christ. When Jesus returns to earth, many Jews will see him, the one they had pierced, and they will be shown mercy by God, and they will believe in Jesus. The Messiah will rule on earth for one thousand years, it will fulfill the messianic prophecies which God made to the Jewish nation. The Jews will be honored by all other nations. But mostly, it will be God who is honored for his patience, and his mercy, to all of us messed up people. You must trust that Christ has died for your sins to be saved now. And you must demonstrate an aversion to sin, or your faith is false. Anyone who claims that the Jewish people are especially bad, do not take God's scriptures seriously, and they do not fear God.

@@deezynar much more substantial comments than usual and a pleasant read. I didn't notice they never mentioned Jesus.

@@reddaB Very few movies mention Jesus by name. I think you'll notice that now that you have it in mind. Jesus is far too controversial, which is exactly what he said about himself.

Rex Harrison was not a gentleman.

i found the ending very disappointing. Kind of ruined the whole film.

I love it, and have met and meet variations of Barbara rather too often :)

:)!

In a way, yes. This is a restatement of "Money can't buy happiness. "

try wearing headphones

@@Deekamon Headphones help but still, they're just not speaking American.

Just enjoy the quality, what do you want a car chase...

I liked the play-like characteristics.

I think the poster in the thumbnail makes it quite clear. Communist/ Socialist theme.

Or socialism better than religion and charity.