Richard Conte

One of the most renowned World War II films relates the timeless saga of the American G.I. as no other movie has before or since. The dilemma of the common soldier trudging to an unknown fate under a blazing Italian sun is captured by the different thoughts and personalities of a disparate group of men under arduous stress.

"The year is 1931. Violence is everywhere as gang wars explode across the face of the nation. Al Capone will soon spend ten years in prison, as his empire was cracking up. Hollywood reflected the era: "Little Caesar," "Public Enemy No. 1," and "Scarface." There were others, too. Killers with baby faces. This is the story of one of them." - title screens. While the title implies a New York setting, the green, leafy, country backgrounds are actually...

Trapped: A counterfeiter on the run from the Treasury Department. They're hot on his trail using every trick in the book and the G-men won't give up until he's locked up behind bars with the counterfeit plates destroyed. A walk in the sun: The story of a platoon of American soldiers in Italy in 1943 striving to attain their objective: a farmhouse occupied by German soldiers.

Corregidor: Doctors on Corregidor sort out a love triangle while fighting the invading Japanese forces. (1943) with Otto Kruger & Donald Woods. The immortal battalion: An army officer shapes a unit of British recruits into a crack battalion to face Rommel's North Africa Korps. (1944) with David Niven, Stanley Holloway & Peter Ustinov. Directed by Carol Reed. The big lift: When the Russians blockade Berlin, British and American airmen receive supplies...

A businessman and husband is contacted by his former mafia boss, and is drawn back into the danger of the mob, putting his family on the line.

Karen Duncan, a famous concert pianist is living her dream until she's stricken with tuberculosis. She's sent to Swiss sanatorium to rest, unaware her illness is terminal. There she falls for her caretaker, Dr. Anthony Stanton, who has trouble getting her to face the seriousness of the condition. With the help of her neighbor, Karen rebels against Dr. Stanton's strict rules and eventually meets a dashing racecar driver. Soon, Karen is sneaking out...

A San Francisco gangster is rubbed out by his rival Ruben Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lieutenant Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. He escapes on a fishing boat, but things still unravel for him.

You and me: Projecting the message that "crime doesn't pay", a group of ex-cons works in a department store whose owner believes in rehabilitation. It's a romantic crime story, laced with comedy and social commentary. Ministry of fear: En route to London after being released from a mental institution, Stephen Neale stops at a seemingly innocent village fair, after which he finds himself caught in the web of a sinister underworld with possible Nazi...