Saloon Bar is a 1939 British crime drama play written by Frank Harvey. It ran for a hundred and eighty performances at Wyndham's Theatre in London. The original cast included Gordon Harker, Mervyn Johns and Anna Konstam. It marked Margaret Johnston's West End debut.[1] The regulars at a London pub attempt to prove that a man is about to be wrongly hanged for murder.
Harvey's Father adapted the play for Australian radio in 1941.[2]
Film adaptation
editThe following year the play was adapted into a film Saloon Bar directed by Walter Forde with Harker and several of the other stage performers reprising their roles.[3]
References
edit- ^ Wearing p.769
- ^ "Actor Adapts Son's Play For Radio Cappy Ricks Plays For Broadcast", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, vol. 36, no. 46, Sydney: Wireless Press, 15 November 1941, nla.obj-722446538, retrieved 17 March 2024 – via Trove
- ^ "Saloon Bar". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
Bibliography
edit- Wearing, J.P. The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
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