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.

Harvey's Father adapted the play for Australian radio in 1941.^[2]

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.^[3]

References

1. Wearing p.769
2. "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
3. "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.