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"Wendy Hiller plays Major Barbara, an idealistic Salvation Army soldier dedicated to saving the poor from the abuses of the rich. Her wealthy father donates a large sum of money to the Army shelter. Disillusioned, Barbara quits the shelter and only after visiting her fathers's factory where the workers are treated well, does she discover that "the greatest of all our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty.""
"Wendy Hiller plays Major Barbara, an idealistic Salvation Army soldier dedicated to saving the poor from the abuses of the rich. Her wealthy father donates a large sum of money to the Army shelter. Disillusioned, Barbara quits the shelter and only after visiting her fathers's factory where the workers are treated well, does she discover that "the greatest of all our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty.""@en
"The story of the daughter of an armaments millionaire who joins the Salvation Army but later joins her new husband in his business when she realizes that his factory will enable her to save more souls than her charity work. The factory also will serve as an avenue for more money for the Salvation Army."
"The story of the daughter of an armaments millionaire who joins the Salvation Army but later joins her new husband in his business when she realizes that his factory will enable her to save more souls than her charity work. The factory also will serve as an avenue for more money for the Salvation Army."@en
"Set during World War II, Barbara Undershaft is a rich girl turned Salvation Army officer. She speaks out against the hypocrisy she believes exists in her organization."@en
"Against the wishes of her wealthy industrialist father, a young woman joins the Salvation Army to save the poor."
"Against the wishes of her wealthy industrialist father, a young woman joins the Salvation Army to save the poor."@en
""George Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy about wealth and poverty is brought to the screen with wonderful performances by Rex Harrison and Wendy Hiller. Hiller plays Major Barbara Undershaft, a major in the Salvation Army who is also a socialist and stridently attacks capitalists -- in particular her father Andrew (Robert Morley), the head of a munitions plant. In love with Barbara is the young Greek scholar Adolphus Cusins (Rex Harrison), whose attentions go unreturned since Barbara spends all her time on her crusade against wealth. To show up his daughter, Andrew donates 50,000 pounds to the Salvation Army which, to Barbara's horror, the Army's general (Sybil Thorndike) happily accepts. Barbara, in protest, quits her post and it is left to Adolphus to take her on a tour of her father's munitions plant and prove to her the benefits of capitalis"--Container."@en
"The daughter of an armaments millionaire joins the Salvation Army but resigns when it accepts her father's donation."@en
"A wealthy young woman joins the Salvation Army against her father's wishes to save the poor."