This was thefourthin a series of films directed by David Lean in the early 40s, all made in collaboration with producer/writer Noel Coward:In Which We Serve (1942)This Happy Breed (1944)Blithe Spirit (1945)Brief Encounter (1945 or 1946)Lean""s earliest co-directorial effort was forMajor Barbara (1941)with Gabriel Pascal - a film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw""s 1905 social comedy.After she kicks him in the shin, he pops her on the head.She beans him with a hurled bottle of ketchup.)...Imagine a man who takes money out of a child""s piggy bank and puts in IOU""s.Flighty Myrtle is lovesick - engaged to marry the town fool, a dim-witted bank clerk named Og Oggilby (Grady Sutton).He scared them off with a display of "Nuclear Man""s" heat-vision, and then turned to his creature: "With my brains and.He attended a top-secret Intelligence briefing with CIA Director Cabot and various Congressmen, who feared that Nemerov was a "hard-liner," tied to the military and wanted to rebuild the Russian Empire.In fact, its success spurred further black and white, post-war dramas dealing with social-problems, e.