''The Enchanted Valley'' is a 1948 American

Cinecolor Cinecolor was an early subtractive color-model two-color motion picture process that was based upon the Prizma system of the 1910s and 1920s and the Multicolor system of the late 1920s and the 1930s. It was developed by William T. Crispinel an ...

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Robert Emmett Tansey Robert Emmett Tansey (June 28, 1897 – June 17, 1951) was an American actor, screenwriter, film producer and director. He was active in cinema in various roles from the 1910s to the 1950s. He was credited under at least 15 pseudonyms, such as Ch ...

and written by

Frances Kavanaugh Frances Kavanaugh (February 5, 1915 – January 23, 2009) was an American screenwriter known for penning B-Westerns. Biography Beginnings Born in Dallas, Texas, to Clyde and Robbie Kavanaugh, Frances grew up in Houston around ranching, cow ...

. The film stars Alan Curtis,

Anne Gwynne Anne Gwynne (born Marguerite Gwynne Trice; December 10, 1918 – March 31, 2003) was an American actress who was known as one of the first scream queens because of her numerous appearances in horror films. Gwynne was also one of the most popular ...

Charley Grapewin Charles Ellsworth Grapewin (December 20, 1869 – February 2, 1956) was an American vaudeville and circus performer, writer, and stage and film actor. He worked in over 100 motion pictures during the silent and sound eras, most notably portrayin ...

, Donn Gift,

Joseph Crehan Joseph A. Creaghan (July 15, 1883 – April 15, 1966) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1916 and 1965, and notably played Ulysses S. Grant nine times between 1939 and 1958, most memorably in ''Union Paci ...

Lash LaRue Alfred "Lash" LaRue (June 15, 1917 – May 21, 1996) was a Western motion picture star of the 1940s and 1950s. Early life and education Born Alfred LaRue in Gretna, Louisiana in 1917, he was reared in various towns throughout Louisiana, ...

and Joe Devlin. The film was released on March 24, 1948, by

Eagle-Lion Films Eagle-Lion Films was the name of two distinct, though related, companies. In 1944, UK film magnate J. Arthur Rank created an American distribution company with the name to handle his British films. The following year, under a reciprocal distrib ...

Plot

The peaceful woodland home of a crippled boy and his grandfather is invaded by armed robbers. However, the natural setting and the boy's gentle personality have an unforeseen reforming effect on the criminals.

Cast

* Alan Curtis as Johnny Nelson *

as Midge Gray *

as Grandpa *Donn Gift as Timmy *

as Chief Scott *Joe Devlin as Bugs Mason *

as Pretty Boy *

John Bleifer John Melvin Bleifer (July 26, 1901 – January 24, 1992) was an American actor whose career began at the end of the silent film era, and lasted through the mid-1980s. He appeared in feature films and film serials, and in a number of televis ...

as Menelli *Gene Alsace as Constable *Jerry Riggio as Gangster *Jimmy the Crow as Jim the Crow *Skipper the Dog as Skipper the Dog *Tubby the Bear as Tubby the Bear

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Enchanted Valley 1948 films 1940s English-language films American drama films 1948 drama films Eagle-Lion Films films Films directed by Robert Emmett Tansey 1940s American films Cinecolor films English-language drama films Films scored by Lucien Cailliet