Major Barbara - Full Movie - GREAT QUALITY (1941)

[@rwolfson1935]

Undoubtedly one of the finest movies in the pantheon of film. A screenplay (Bernard Shaw) of supreme literacy. Absolutely rousing history for Britain 1941, indeed the free world. The rare experience of great art exceeding the sum of its extraordinary parts. Offered without commercial interruption!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[@susanpound317]

This film is so typically British bright stars, humorous moments and wonderfully entertaining.

[@Jivanmuktishu]

The cast list is like an honor roll of British cinema at the time, directed by David Lean. Thank you, Smoking Hat.

[@Jivanmuktishu]

The volume is rather low.

[@thegreencat9947]

@@Jivanmuktishu what?

[@Vic-xg2kc]

Absolutely Wonderful!!! Play, literacy, cast and enthralling performances under superb direction. Must be British. Wendy Hiller, true to her womanhood, is magnificent and she wore every ounce of her glittering treasures in this beautiful presentation. Surely GBS would have been more than satisfied. One of the finest films I have ever seen. Thank you.

[@buckroo8424]

I adore Wendy Hiller and was first introduced to her in Pygmalion as Eliza Doolittle ! What a "treasure" and love her in subsequent movies.

[@christinemartin63]

Holy cow! Terrific ensemble acting. The best of the Brits (no one can touch them!) in one wonderful production. Superb picture quality, too. Bra--vo for posting.

[@cgpyper7536]

This flick is loaded with major stars who executed all the philosophical, humorous, one-liners, exchanges, and monologues perfectly. It's one my list to watch again. Thank you TSH.

[@royerwin6826]

5555

[@wyominghome4857]

Absolutely adore Wendy Hiller. See her in "I Know Where I'm Going" with Roger Livesy. Wonderful.

[@vivianidelacerda9708]

It's wonderful to watch all these major actors and actresses in their beginnings. Thanks for posting 🎞️🎬📽️

[@brucejackson4219]

A classic of its day: first class acting by one & all. Not one to be missed.

[@tadimaggio]

This play (which has been severely cut in the film version, which is still very fine) is more important now than it was when it was written in 1905. Do yourself a big favor and read Shaw's original. Of the many, MANY unforgettable lines and speeches in the play, you will feel the supreme truth of one of those lines when you are finished: "You have learned something. That always feels at first as though you had lost something."

[@SethHaberman]

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

[@markhuebner7580]

What a crazy, amazing and wonderful perspective on Heaven, Hell, and the unbelievably complex machinations of humanity in between! And birthed in the teeth of the most horrific war humankind has yet seen! Incredible!

[@evetko]

Wonderful insights. To "make war on war" now that's a new one for me. Truly inspirational.

[@RetiredSchoolCook]

❤Thank you 👍Great movie 👍Always good to watch the great and talented Robert Newton 👍May 24 , 2024

[@lesart3446]

screen writers in the last 40 years need to hear this dialogue, rather than the endless diet of M/F every two minutes and inane content in contemporary film...

[@wyominghome4857]

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

[@reddaB]

@@wyominghome4857 I was thinking simmilar.

[@mimiluvfromsf]

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

[@bojack40]

The source material was written by George Bernard Shaw!

[@naveensarawagi7442]

Actually black n white films shud come back

[@kennethbooker4955]

It’s amazing watching these films on you tube

[@paulbriody297]

OMG. I've never even heard of this before. A great film, sizzling dialogue, one of my new fave films of all time. I even bought the DVD.

[@mikeclifford2006]

Great stuff. Wendy Hiller gorgeous. Some great dialogue and characterisation.

[@gplunk]

An era in film that will never be (adequately) re-created.....

[@berylbattrick1246]

WONDERFUL GEM, THANK YOU.

[@LadyDiVintage1953]

I really enjoyed this film. Thank you for sharing.

[@iqrasalim134]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR UPLOADING!!

[@kenowens9021]

Twenty odd years later, Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins and Stanley Holloway (the constable) as Alfred P. Doolittle appear together in My Fair Lady.

[@algie-t2w]

During the Salvation Army revivalist meeting Elmer Gantry would be in his element.

[@claudettejacobs930]

Amazing film. Back players such as Muir Maithison and David Lean. Great cinematography

[@mjhzen8313]

Hiller is absolutely impeccable in this.

[@davidjones332]

It's remarkable how much Wendy Hiller resembles Diana Rigg from certain angles -both remarkably beautiful women and great actresses.

[@reddaB]

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

[@DPalsVlog]

👍Thanks for uploading this film 📼

[@algie-t2w]

Wendy Hiller is very lovely. Decades later as an old lady in All Passion Spent she is still lovely.

[@JH-ce7yd]

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".

[@esmeephillips5888]

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.

[@bonitamartin4954]

I've never heard of this film. I love it!

[@bobsaturday4273]

Wendy Hiller is quite a personality , really captures the role perfectly

[@GeneRogers-di6cl]

At 18.18 the young man across from Rex Harrison played with Wendy Hiller in Pygmalion with Leslie Howard. It preceded the musical version of My Fair Lady.

[@Indu_h24]

This chapter in my syallabus 😊😊

[@kenowens9021]

Interesting that Wendy Hiller played Eliza Doolittle in Pygmallion, and Harrison and Holloway played in the musical version of My Fair Lady.

[@wyominghome4857]

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

[@lisawilliams7836]

@@wyominghome4857 Stanley Holloway 😊

[@duvidl]

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!

[@simonf8902]

Astonishing cast. This will never happen again. And GBS. Wow

[@nigelhajjar]

Wonderful..Thank You.

[@thehighpriestess978]

What a brilliant movie!

[@KathrynPieta]

Debra Kerr is a supporting actress in the salvation army here. Love the Major

[@philipwebb960]

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!"

[@eboracum2012]

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.

[@eboracum2012]

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

[@johnrushworth360]

Magneficent robert newton and the entire cast made in britain

[@orange70383]

I've worked in a steel mill, it's the most dreadful, dangerous and unhealthy place one could imagine. The temperature inside the plant ranged from 100f to 127f, and it's all black inside with carbon soot thick in the hot air. You can barely see as giant forklifts go running past while giant explosions are going on and molten metal everywhere.

[@CJ-hz1uj]

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.

[@coloraturaElise]

"Per te d'immenso giubilo" is the chorus entrance to the wedding scene in the opera Lucia di Lammermoor, for those who might be interested. Fun to hear it in this context, at 1'10''.

[@grimtt]

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

[@adiconstantin4598]

(opera by Gaetano Donizetti). 1:10

[@algie-t2w]

"Won't you come to the mission, won't you come? You'll get a free cup of tea and a bun".

[@ablaqueate7437]

I loved this movie decades ago and thoroughly enjoyed watching it again. So many interesting themes. The workers paradise/garden city at the end maybe is not as corny as it seems. I find much of it very witty, funny, i love the cynicism. The acting is so good - the small movements. Lovely. (Barbara is so wonderfully awful.:)

[@1LSWilliam]

A simply brilliant film i had never heard of before. Mine is the shame

[@mimiluvfromsf]

Thank you, The Smoking Hat, I've subcribed!

[@TheGiantKillers]

Deborah Kerr's first movie appearance. She'd done one before this but all her scenes were cut.

[@paulmardon9268]

Magnificent!!

[@wcstevens7]

I am a total non- believer in any religion....but one thing is for sure the Salvationists do great work helping people when they need it most...

[@luvluvluvluvcats]

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.

[@aceragain]

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

[@luvluvluvluvcats]

@@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!

[@mountainmantararua8824]

Where's the health and safety inspector now!! No hard hats in those days, no safety glasses, yet no one gets burnt. Good old British film. Love it. 👍👍

[@RonGerstein]

Deborah Kerr was only ranked as the 11th actor in the cast.

[@reddaB]

Great film!

[@ContinentsEdge]

I just happened upon this film. Please please tell me where I can find more!

[@kennethbooker4955]

Another British film good cast comedy

[@abhijitmukherjee720]

Awesome ❤

[@simonf8902]

A piece of genius today.

[@ViolinStimme]

Bernard Shaw is in love with contradictions!

[@armstronggermany2995]

Oh dear , health & safety would have something to say these days about viewing a steel mill in their fine clothes as seen at the end of the film. How times change !

[@dustanjhlady]

Why is everyone saying this is satire? Is it satire of salvation films? The Christian saved by capitalism? I found it very true to life and the ways we justify our bad behavior. No doubt, every leader of a genocide, every CEO of a cigarette manufacturer and every meth dealer has it all justified. Our brains are natural converters. Through justification we can make any evil good.

[@ladymeghenderson9337]

Well since, as a Salvationist myself, I happen to know we don't drink, Rex Harrison's character is not a very good example.

[@fuzzyburnette7161]

The cast is great but Robert Morley steals the film. I love it.

[@Glitches59.]

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

[@annranhem8019]

Shaw Major Barbra us wonderful!

[@eveyholmes]

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

[@denisehall4818]

lovely.

[@normansmithers8708]

post eliza doolittle, pre henry higgins but would eliza know where she was going and would henry higgins know where the devil his slippers were?

[@pabloperez4063]

Great channel discovery!!

[@zeldasmith6154]

Rex Harrison was not a gentleman.

[@240018]

great adaptation of Shaw, except the censorship necessary to suit the mood of time (1941), see for example at minute 50 and check the valuable omission against the original work

[@Deekamon]

so what was omitted??

[@ablaqueate7437]

What was omitted????? :)

[@wjarnock44]

I'll have to watch it again - I got lost in the 3rd act. They are speaking at 100mph.

[@davidcarlson2152]

Look who the pair from an even more-famous George Bernard Shaw film.

[@esmeephillips5888]

About as classy a list of credits, in front of the camera and behind it, as British cinema could muster... then or later. Sad to say, during the shoot Wendy Hiller grew to detest its vainglorious and incompetent producer so much that she refused ever to see the film.

[@teresaweldon5822]

This is an eye opening glimpse of the elite and how they actually live and feel LISTEN CAREFULLY TO WHAT THEY SAY, they don't believe in Gid don't want to hear about him and worship other things like ISIS and yes they actually say it. They are so DISCONNECTED in a unintrusive sort of way. Must wow it's actually so much more noticeable in these old movies then the new, the new ones it's more in product placement or symbols back then they just said it. Unbelievable.

[@artfuldodger6440]

Who was the male actors name who had a heart attack while making this movie?

[@saintexupery8406]

"He had a Religion of Wrongness."

[@jeevanchaudhary4442]

Is it the movie version of author GB Shaw`s novel Major Barbara??

[@philipwebb960]

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

[@johnmodra9543]

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 .

[@normansmithers8708]

so this is what happened to eliza doolittle?

[@normansmithers8708]

higgins and doolittle together.

[@moatzsy7931]

Undershaft is funny😂

[@darksister1435]

Half of them are from movie Pygmalion

[@MrAhuapai]

George Bernard Shaw

[@artangel4172]

hey folks, i think i just spotted Dane June Whitfield in the movie! i m sure is her! She s there next to Dame Wendy Hiller while she giving her speech! Can someone check ? well i m sure is her!

[@kayeninetwo3585]

A strange movie. It's hard to tell where the satire starts and ends. It's possible there isn't a sincere sentiment expressed in the film. Everyone is philosophizing while at the same time rationalizing their self-absorbed behavior. Major Barbara as a character turns out to be something akin to a clay figure who's morphed and changed at the author's whim...and, as a result, not very interesting in the end. It's probably a critique on rich and over-educated people, so it may have some value, but it was probably better left as a play.

[@tebelshaw9486]

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

[@ablaqueate7437]

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

[@kimberlykasimoff1447]

Though the Salvation Army does not conduct themselves as in this movie, it was enjoyable. " There are no orphans in the Salvation Army." Great saying when Christians have a Heavenly Father who cares for them. Does the Salvation Army really believe that if someone gives money to them, that that is a ticket into Eternity with God. Isn't that what the Apostles taught against, but then this story was written by GBS.

[@colinmerritt7645]

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.

[@shivsedits]

All these things remind me of Tom and Jerry beginnings

[@arturovaldes546]

Before Henry 8th , before he stole the monasteries and their lands. The monasteries provided work , food & homes for the poor English. After they were gone , came the poor houses of Dickinson writing , or exile to Botony Bay in Australia.

[@rgaleny]

COULD THIS EVER HAVE BEEN ENGLAND ?

[@deezynar]

As a Christian, I'll toss out a few thoughts. The bible tells of God demanding that the Israelites kill the Canaanites because they were extremely evil. The Israelites remained engaged in wars from the day they set foot in the promised land until the Babylonians hauled them away hundreds of years later. The book of Ecclesiastes has that section that was put into a pop song. It has the bit that goes, "a time for war, and a time for peace." And the bible demands that murderers, and rapists, be executed. Jesus told his followers that a person who lives by the sword, will die by it. But he also told them to buy a sword. It's assumed that he intended for them to use it prudently. My point is that we do not live in the paradise that God originally made. God threw man out of there when man rebelled. Mankind has been rebellious ever since. The New Testament instructs Christians to live at peace with other people insomuch as it is possible. When the other person is not peaceful, and they are abusing you, you have the right to defend yourself. Countries have the same right. Provocative behavior is condemned, not self defense. The movie talked about alcohol as well. The bible says that a person who gets drunk is in the wrong. But it also says that God gave wine to mankind to lift his spirits. That's not referring to grape juice, and it sounds like getting at least a little bit of a buzz. God demanded that Israel celebrate certain religious holidays by consuming alcohol. And the story of Jesus turning water into wine specifies that he made high quality wine. Grape juice would not have been considered high quality, and the story indicates that the party goers were already a bit tipsy by that time. It is unfortunate that many people abuse alcohol, but it is also unfortunate that other people believe it is good to try to stop all consumption because some people abuse it. That would be like outlawing cars because they kill people. Notice that the movie talks about salvation, but it does not talk about Jesus. It does not say that the salvation being referred to was made possible by Jesus dying, willingly, to pay for the sins of those who believe in him. The movie laughed at how some people invent stories about being much worse they were in the past than they really were. They want it to sound like they came out of more hardcore behavior than they really did. That's just lying, and that's not cool. I don't know if it's a good idea for a Christian group to take money from people who build weapons, or make alcohol. I think the important thing is the group has to tell non-Christian donors that their gifts will not be counted as a good deed by God, nor will they earn 'points' with God. Salvation cannot be bought by sinful humans.

[@deezynar]

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.

[@reddaB]

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

[@deezynar]

@@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.

[@simonf8902]

Advanced concepts here.

[@seandineen999]

Paternalism, and a nice company town.

[@ablaqueate7437]

And.... Not so bad.

[@will8026]

A Reader's Digest article in search of a film....very grim and a very uncomfortable imbalance of comedy and drama....

[@archie6945]

If Barbara's mother is a lady, surely her husband is at least a knight; i.e. not Mr Undershaft, but Sir Andrew?

[@michealfigueroa6325]

Many who posted here laud the film and it might have deservd the praise had not Hiller turned into a turd at about 1:09

[@khawd96]

Act 2 in 28:00

[@monaj33]

So Eliza from My Fair Lady #1 with prof Higgins from My Fair Lady #2..much better couple

[@ollierobinson9612]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 A good film should deepen one’s experience 1:31 💛 👇💛

[@arghyadas2447]

7:38 men will be men. Be it Poet Shaw's time or of just this time...😉

[@littleadvice4you1]

Who is studying English literature here?

[@simonf8902]

Very modern actually.

[@voraciousreader3341]

This isn’t my favorite play by Shaw, which to me is deadly dull on the page....it need actors talking 100mph to put life into the words, lol! Rex Harrison speaks so fast that I’m always tempted to slow the thing down! There’s an unreality to the subjects under debate, and I’ve never been comfortable with Barbara’s sudden flip-flop in philosophy, which strikes a false note right at the end, negating all of her previous arguments. It’s a volte face which is so convenient, a neat tucking in of ends better left out! As though people who are well fed are also spiritually starving....there’s no justification there.

[@bigbearfuzzums7027]

Basil zarhovs guility concince at work overtime!

[@KathrynPieta]

I cannot understand what the hell they are saying half the time.

[@Deekamon]

try wearing headphones

[@billietyree6139]

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

[@BernardGoldstein-d4v]

Great movie 7/31/24

[@seltaeb3302]

David Lean master director & woe betide anyone who colourizes his & the bw photography technicians films. You've been warned!

[@ablaqueate7437]

:)!

[@Glinkaism1]

Still "stagey" but can't get around that no matter what editing techniques you do.

[@lesart3446]

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

[@reddaB]

I liked the play-like characteristics.