{ { Infobox film
| name = Saloon Bar
| image = Saloon Bar.jpg
| caption =
| director = Walter Forde
| producer = Michael Balcon Culley Forde
| based_on = Saloon Bar by Frank Harvey
| writer = John Dighton Angus MacPhail
| narrator =
| starring = Gordon Harker Elizabeth Allan Mervyn Johns
| music = Ernest Irving
| cinematography = Ronald Neame
| editing = Ray Pitt
| studio = Ealing Studios
| distributor =Associated British Film Distributors
| released = November 2, 1940
| runtime = 76 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}Saloon Bar is a 1940 British comedy thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Gordon Harker, Elizabeth Allan and Mervyn Johns. It was made by Ealing Studios and its style has led to comparisons with the later Ealing Comedies, unlike other wartime Ealing films which are different in tone. It is based on the 1939 play of the same name by Frank Harvey in which Harker had also starred. The film's sets were designed by the art director Wilfred Shingleton.
Plot
An amateur detective tries to clear an innocent man of a crime before the date of his execution.
The action takes place over one evening in the saloon bar of a London pub, just before Christmas. The regulars discuss the forthcoming execution for robbery and murder of the boyfriend of one of the barmaids. A pound note from the robbery is found in the till. Convinced of the condemned man's innocence, and led by bookie Joe Harris, they trace how the note came to be there and unmask the true killer.
Cast
Gordon Harker as Joe Harris
Elizabeth Allan as Queenie
Mervyn Johns as Wickers
Joyce Barbour as Sally
Anna Konstam as Ivy
Cyril Raymond as Harry Small
Judy Campbell as Doris
Al Millen as Fred
Norman Pierce as Bill Hoskins
Alec Clunes as Eddie Graves
Mavis Villiers as Joan
Felix Aylmer as Mayor
O. B. Clarence as Sir Archibald
Aubrey Dexter as Major
Helena Pickard as Mrs Small
Manning Whiley as Evangelist
Laurence Kitchin as Peter
Roddy Hughes as Doctor
Gordon James as Jim
Annie Esmond as Mrs. Truscott
Eliot Makeham as Meek Man
Roddy McDowall as Boy
Julie Suedo as Eleanor
Torin Thatcher as Mr. Garrod
References
Bibliography
Murphy, Robert. Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48''. Routledge, 1992.