This Happy Breed

This Happy Breed

Eagle-Lion

28 May 1944

Historical Drama

DVD
C+

I would say I was more interested than entertained.  Director David Lean co-adapted Noël Coward's play, and I can actually see this working better onstage, where it wouldn't feel so odd to have scenes with characters referred to as being nearby.  (Including the neighbor lady we never meet, although we see her husband and son.)  Still, this domestic drama, set in 1919 to '39, is more my kind of movie than The Bridge Over the River Kwai or Lawrence of Arabia.

Trapped (1949)

Trapped (1949)

Eagle-Lion Films etc.

October 1, 1949

Crime Drama

DVD
D+

It starts out like a documentary on the U.S. Treasury, but then it just turns into a standard crime drama.  Richard Fleischer directed, fairly early on in his career.

He Walked by Night

He  Walked by Night

Eagle-Lion Films

November 24, 1948

Crime Drama

DVD
C

The best thing here is the narration, giving it sort of a non-campy Ed Wood feel.  Alfred L. Werker and Anthony Mann co-directed, the latter the year before Border Incident, which was also a C.