Saloon Bar (play) explained

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.

Film adaptation

See main article: Saloon Bar. The 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.[2]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Wearing p.769
  2. Web site: Saloon Bar. https://web.archive.org/web/20090114015703/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/49285. dead. 14 January 2009 . British Film Institute. 20 April 2014.