Major Barbara 1941

TIME Magazine: The result is a cinema treat. Read more

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: To call it a manifest triumph would be arrant stinginess with words. Read more

Don Druker, Chicago Reader: Though a bit slow to start and overlong (GBS added 18 minutes to the screenplay), this is still an enthusiastic and intelligent rendering of the wonderful Shavian wit and sense of the ridiculous. Read more

Tom Charity, Time Out: There is plenty to relish, notably Newton and Morley hamming it up (as, respectively, the rumbustious Bill Walker and the overbearing tycoon), and Deborah Kerr in her debut; but it does tend to just sit there. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Adapted from an old Shaw play, circa 1905, it still carries the lightning thrusts of Shavian caustic satire at any and all levels. Read more