| The Great Barrier | |
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| Based on | novelThe Great Divide byAlan Sullivan |
| Produced by | Günther Stapenhorst |
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| Distributed by | Gaumont British Distributors |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £250,000[1] |
The Great Barrier is a 1937 Britishhistoricaldrama film directed byMilton Rosmer andGeoffrey Barkas and starringRichard Arlen,Lilli Palmer andAntoinette Cellier. The film depicts the construction of theCanadian Pacific Railway.[2] It was based on the 1935 novelThe Great Divide byAlan Sullivan. It was made at theLime Grove Studios inShepherd's Bush.[3] The film's sets were designed byWalter Murton.
It was one of a series of British Empire-related movies made by Gaumont around this time, others includingRhodes of Africa,The Flying Doctor andSoldiers Three.[4][5][6]
The film involved 16 weeks location shooting in Canada.[7]
Barbara Greene was borrowed from Fox. Location filming finished in June 1936.[8]
On 19 MayVariety reported production "has been postponed for awhile. Geoffrey Barkis, who was directing, has been replaced by Milton Rosmer, with reason given that Barkis is suffering from a nervous breakdown."[9]
Variety called it "One of the best pictures ever made by a British company, and . ranks With the best made anywhere."[10]
Writing forThe Spectator in 1937,Graham Greene gives the film a generally good review, describing it as "a thoroughly worthy picture", "well acted, well produced [and] a little less than well written". Greene praised the saloon shindy and horseback race scenes, and commended Palmer's acting, however his primary criticism was that "it shrinks into significance, with its conventional love-story and the impression it leaves that the building of a railway depends on the heroic efforts of one or three men and a girl".[11]
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