Category: Directed by Melvin Frank

  • Above and Beyond (1952, Melvin Frank and Norman Panama)

    Above and Beyond breaks one of my severest rules–don’t start with narration and then drop it. Above and Beyond starts with Eleanor Parker narrating the film, mostly because otherwise she wouldn’t be in it for the first hour. Once she is in the film full-time, the narration quickly disappears. I can’t remember the last time…