Saloon Bar (play)

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.

Film adaptation
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]

References
  1. Wearing p.769
  2. "Saloon Bar". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 20 April 2014.

Bibliography
  • Wearing, J.P. The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.


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