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Eagle-Lion Films
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Eagle-Lion Films est une société de production de cinéma fondée par J. Arthur Rank. En 1947, elle acquiert PRC Pictures, une petite compagnie américaine et devient l'un des plus estimés producteurs de séries B, ou Poverty Row. Eagle-Lion est également un distributeur sous le nom d'Eagle-Lion Distributors Limited au Royaume-Uni et d'Eagle-Lion Films Inc. aux États-Unis. Son studio, relativement petit, se situe au 7950, Santa Monica Boulevard, à Hollywood, et a été depuis démoli.
Entre 1946 et 1949, Eagle-Lion est sous contrôle d'Arthur Krim, qui, en plus de distribuer les films de la Rank et de David O. Selznick, y produit en plus ses propres séries B. En 1951, on offre à Krim la direction de United Artists.
Eagle-Lion acquiert le studio de PRC, racheté lui-même à Grand National Pictures, qui cessent leur activité en 1939. En 1954, Frederick Ziv achète Eagle-Lion pour ses Ziv Television Programs.
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Mickey (1948)
, 1h27Réalisé par Ralph Murphy
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Comédie
Acteurs Irene Hervey, Hattie McDaniel, Skip Homeier, John Sutton, Rose Hobart, Beverly Wills
The plotline involves a young tomboy named Mickey (Butler) with a beautiful singing voice, who is torn between singing and playing on her baseball team. Meanwhile, Mickey trying to make her widowed father fall in love with her neighbor's aunt, Louise (Hervey), a woman who is helping Mickey try to be more ladylike so she can become her best friend's love interest.
Million Dollar Weekend (1948)
, 1h12Réalisé par Gene Raymond
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Thriller, Comédie
Thèmes La mer, Transport
Acteurs Gene Raymond, Osa Massen, Francis Lederer, Robert Warwick
Stockbroker Nicholas Lawrence (Gene Raymond) has grown tired of his tedious life in Los Angeles and decides one day to escape, stealing cash and securities from his company worth about a million dollars. He buys a plane ticket to Shanghai via Honolulu.
Parole, Inc. (1948)
, 1h11Réalisé par Alfred Zeisler
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Thriller, Policier
Acteurs Michael O'Shea, Turhan Bey, Evelyn Ankers, Lyle Talbot, Joseph Kenneth Shovlin, Charles Williams
The film opens with a scene of FBI agent Richard Hendricks (Michael O'Shea) bedridden in a hospital bed, dictating the results of his investigation for a report to the California Governor. The dictation scenes are interrupted by long flashback scenes showing how the investigation proceeded.
Sarabande (1948)
, 1h36Réalisé par Basil Dearden
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Guerre, Biographie, Historique, Romance
Thèmes Sexualité
Acteurs Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Peter C. Bull, Flora Robson, Françoise Rosay, Frederick Valk
Mariée au Grand Électeur de Hanovre Georges-Louis, Sophie-Dorothée s'éprend de Königsmarck, un officier suédois au service de l'armée de son époux. Amant de la Comtesse Platen, Königsmarck l'abandonne pour Sophie-Dorothée.
Sleeping Car To Trieste (1948)
, 1h35Réalisé par John Paddy Carstairs
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Thriller, Policier
Thèmes Transport, Le train
Acteurs Jean Kent, Bonar Colleano, Albert Lieven, Derrick De Marney, Finlay Currie, Paul Dupuis
The film takes place almost entirely on a train travelling between Paris and Trieste in post-war Europe. Albert Lieven and Jean Kent play two somewhat mysterious people, at ease in sophisticated society. On Valya's behalf, Zurta steals a diary from an unnamed embassy in Paris, but in doing so, is forced to kill an embassy guard. Poole, an accomplice of theirs, is passed the diary, but he double-crosses the other two and attempts to escape with it on the Orient Express. Just in time, Valya and Zurta also board the train.
The Noose Hangs High (1948)
, 1h17Réalisé par Charles Barton
Genres Comédie, Action
Acteurs Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Cathy Downs, Joseph Calleia, Leon Errol, Mike Mazurki
Ted Higgins (Bud Abbott) and Tommy Hinchcliffe (Lou Costello) work for the Speedy Service Window Washing Company. They run into a bookie named Nick Craig (Joseph Calleia), who, after mistaking them for employees of the Speedy Messenger Service, sends them to Mr. Stewart's (Ben Weldon) office to collect $50,000 owed to him. But Stewart has plans of his own: he hires two thugs to rob Ted and Tommy of the money he has just paid. Tommy flees from the robbers and takes refuge in a room with a gaggle of women who are mailing face powder samples. He hides the money in an envelope and addresses it to Craig, but it is accidentally switched with an envelope containing a powder sample. Ted and Tommy return to Craig's office and explain what happened; they assure him that the cash will arrive in the mail the next day.
L'Impitoyable (1948)
, 1h44Réalisé par Edgar George Ulmer
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Thriller, Noir
Acteurs Zachary Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Sydney Greenstreet, Lucille Bremer, Martha Vickers
Le richissime financier Horace Vendig annonce publiquement qu'il se retire des affaires. Ses proches cependant ne voient dans cette décision qu'une nouvelle ruse pour tromper le fisc. À l'aide d'une série de flash-back, l'ascension fulgurante d'un homme et les germes de son propre anéantissement nous sont exposés jusqu'à son terme catastrophique. Alors qu'il courtisait sans retenue Mallory, Horace est agressé par son rival ruiné, Buck Mansfield : leur dispute sans merci s'achève par leur noyade commune.
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (1948)
, 1h32Réalisé par Lawrence Huntington
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame
Thèmes Le thème de l'éducation
Acteurs David Farrar, Marius Goring, Greta Gynt, Raymond Huntley, Edward Chapman, Mary Jerrold
An elderly schoolmaster is upset when a new, younger teacher arrives at the school proving extremely popular with the students. Their rivalry is eventually driven to a tragic conclusion.
Shed No Tears (1948)
, 1h10Réalisé par Jean Yarbrough
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Noir, Policier, Romance
Acteurs Wallace Ford, June Vincent, Mark Roberts, Frank Albertson, Elena Verdugo, Betty Blythe
Edna Grover (Vincent) convinces her older husband Sam (Ford) to fake his own death so they can collect on the life insurance. He hides in another city under an assumed name while she identifies a burned body found after a hotel fire as her husband. Edna collects the money but she has been having an affair for some time and double-crosses her husband. The whole situation rouses the suspicions of the Sam's son from a previous marriage who hires a private investigator to look into it. Unfortunately the PI is crooked and Edna pays him to stay silent. In the end, when Sam finds out about Edna's secret lover, Ray (Roberts), he is so distraught that he commits suicide.
Marché de brutes (1948)
, 1h19Réalisé par Anthony Mann
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Thriller, Noir, Policier
Acteurs Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt, John Ireland, Raymond Burr, Whit Bissell
Joe Sullivan brûle d'envie de sortir de prison. Il est là parce qu'il a participé à un crime avec un partenaire, Rick Coyle, mais seul Joe a été condamné.
Open Secret (1948)
, 1h9Réalisé par John Reinhardt
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Thriller, Noir, Policier
Acteurs John Ireland, Jane Randolph, Sheldon Leonard, Roman Bohnen, Morgan Farley, George Tyne
Newlyweds Paul Lester (Ireland) and his wife Nancy (Randolph) are invited to visit Paul's friend Ed Stevens. They arrive to find Stevens gone and a mysterious phone call gets Paul to the other end of town. While he's away, Nancy is assaulted by a would-be burglar. Paul thinks there's something more going on than a missing persons case or a burglary and tries to interest Police Detective Frontelli (Leonard) in looking into it, but Frontelli is initially skeptical. When Stevens turns up under the wheels of a truck along with evidence tying him to an earlier hit-and-run murder, Paul is certain that there's some kind of organized conspiracy afoot. What he finds is a town slowly coming under siege from a secret band of anti-Semitic thugs masquerading as a patriotic organization, with whom Stevens had been involved and tried to quit. Paul and Nancy's situation goes from bad to dangerous when they accidentally stumble upon evidence that could hang the murderers.
Adventures of Casanova (1948)
, 1h23Réalisé par Roberto Gavaldón
Genres Aventure, Historique, Romance
Thèmes La mer, Transport
Acteurs Arturo de Córdova, Lucille Bremer, Turhan Bey, John Sutton, George Tobias, Noreen Nash
Close-Up (1948)
, 1h16Réalisé par Jack Donohue
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Thriller, Policier
Acteurs Alan Baxter, Virginia Gilmore, Richard Kollmar, Loring Smith, Russell Collins, Sid Melton
Phil Spar (Alan Baxter), a newsreel photographer in New York City, is doing a fashion shot outside a bank. Meanwhile in the bank Joseph Gibbons (Phillip Huston) 's pal, Mr. Fredericks(Michael Wyler) says he is closing out his account tomorrow and will be withdrawing $800,000.00. Phil unintentionally films Martin Beaumont (Richard Kollmar) as he is leaving the bank. An effort is made by Fredericks associate, Beck (Russell Collins) to secure this film. Beck approaches Phil to buy the film, spinning a tale about his wife and his girlfriend not needing to see him in the film. Phil meets magazine reporter Peggy Lane (virginia Gilmore) and they go to deliver the film to Beck. Then Phil's boss, Harry Avery (Loring Smith) discovers that Mr. Beaumont is actually Kurt Bauer, a wanted Nazi war criminal. Phil arranges a rendezvous with Miss Lane at his apartment, but Phil is kidnapped by Gibbons posing as a New York City detective. Phil makes a daring escape on the Staten Island ferry. When Phil returns to his office he finds that his boss killed the hitman who was sent to knock him off and steal the film negative. Phil gives the film can to a cabbie to take to the police, but the bad guys knock out the cabbie and kidnap Phil and Peggy. We learn that Peggy is actually tied in with the bad guys. She has a change of heart and acts to try and keep Phil from getting killed. Mr. Beaumont has hired Gibbons to fly him out of the country. Gibbons tries to double-cross Beauomnt and get all the $800,000, but Beaumont outsmarts him. Beaumont heads to meet the seaplane that will fly him out of the country, using Phil as a shield. Peggy calls the cops. Gibbons shows up and engages in a gunfight with Beaumont. Beaumont kills Gibbons and his henchman, but Phil chases him and Beaumont is shot by the cops. Phil thanks Peggy for saving his life before she goes off to jail.
Sword of the Avenger (1948)
, 1h16Réalisé par Sidney Salkow
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Aventure, Romance
Acteurs Sigrid Gurie, Ralph Morgan, Duncan Renaldo, Leonard Strong, Trevor Bardette, Cy Kendall
À cor et à cri (1947)
, 1h22Réalisé par Charles Crichton
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie, Aventure, Policier
Thèmes La bande dessinée
Acteurs Alastair Sim, Harry Fowler, Joan Dowling, Douglas Barr, Jack Lambert, Jack Warner
Des gamins des rues, avec à leur tête Joe Kirby, tentent de mettre fin aux agissements d'un escroc qui réussit à pirater les bandes dessinées d'un journal pour transmettre des messages codés à une bande de gangsters. Une bagarre mémorable, à laquelle tous les gosses du quartier prennent part, permettra d'arrêter le faussaire et ses acolytes.