Major Barbara (1941), a satire
of charity and hypocrisy with a paean to the glories
of capitalism and industrialization that feels partially influence by wartime patriotism,
preserves the social debate and witty dialogue
of the play and succeeds on the personality brought to the
screen by a
top - notch cast (Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton and a young Deborah Kerr among them).