Richard ConteFilmography

The Diary of a Murderess

Synopsis: In this low-budget, erotic thriller, aptly titled The Diary of a Murderess, a seductive, scheming woman (Marissa Mell) meets and insinuates herself into the mansion of a fabulously wealthy film producer (Richard Conte). When he mysteriously dies, the sinister opportunistic woman is left with his Read More

Evil Eye

Secrets of a Call Girl

Synopsis: A beautiful salesgirl falls victim to a brutal gangster, and after being forced into a life of depravity, her escape is only the beginning of her terror in director Giuliano Carnimeo's gritty Eurocult classic. Anna (Edwige Fenech) was a naïve shop girl working in a small boutique when she fell Read More

Tony Arzenta e Big Guns

Synopsis: A Mafia hitman's decision to leave his profession results in bloodshed and tragedy. The violence begins when his bosses, to help him change his mind, have the assassin's wife and child brutally murdered, causing the hitman to launch a vendetta against his bosses. The film is also titled Big Guns. Read More

The Violent Professionals

Actors: Richard Conte

Synopsis: In this Italian action film, a suspended police officer risks his badge in an attempt to bring a mob kingpin to justice. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Wipeout!

Synopsis: In this violent Italian crime drama, a Mafia capo hires an assassin to slay his rivals. The louse then plots to turn the hit-man in to the cops. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Shoot First, Die Later

Synopsis: In this crime drama, the Mafia tries to strong arm a straight-arrow cop into accepting graft. The cop refuses and they get rougher. In the end, the honest officer gets his revenge. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mio Fratello Anastasia

Actors: Richard Conte, Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: This Italian comedy shows the gradual enlightenment of an innocent and unsuspecting priest (Alberto Sordi) as he discovers that his extremely generous brother (Richard Conte) is in fact a major American crime lord. It is based on the novel by the Rev. Salvatore Anastasia, brother of ganglord Read More

The Godfather

Actors: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, John Cazale, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

Synopsis: Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga The Godfather is a touchstone of cinema: one of the most widely imitated, quoted, and lampooned movies of all time. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino star as Vito Corleone and his youngest son, Michael Read More

Hubo Una Vez En Nueva York

Synopsis: The 1920s sees New York City being overtaken by a mob. Dubbed into Spanish. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Piazza Pulita

Actors: Adolfo Celi, Richard Conte

Synopsis: Any 1972 film starring Richard Conte was like as not produced in Italy. Despite its title, 1931: Once Upon a Time in New York is no exception to this rule. Conte and Adolfo Celi play rival Chicago gangsters, fighting tooth and tommy-gun over territorial rights. Featured in the cast are Read More

The Enemy Before Us

Synopsis: The Enemy Before Us stars Tony Franciosca as Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon. Back in his old neighborhood in New York's "Little Italy", Dillon hopes to take a break from his hectic responsibilities and recapture "something real" from his younger days. Unfortunately, he is bombarded by Read More

Explosion

Actors: Don Stroud, Michelle Chicoine, Cec Linder, Robin Ward

Synopsis: In this timely melodrama, a young man encounters psychological problems when he tries to deal with his brother's death. Alan Evans (Gordon Thomson) seeks counseling when his brother Peter (Robin Ward) is killed in Vietnam. Their pompous and patriotic father (Cec Linder) talks the boy into Read More

American Cross Eagles

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This internationally produced war flick represents actor Richard Conte's only directorial effort. Conte casts himself as the leader of a band of Yugoslav partisans. He links up with American officer Rory Calhoun, ostensibly for the purpose of setting up an exchange of prisoners. When it becomes Read More

Operation Cross Eagles

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this thrilling war drama set during WW II, a pair of courageous commandos endeavor to kidnap an important German general. The film is also known as American Cross Eagles. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Challengers

Actors: Anne Baxter, Susan Clark, Sean Garrison, Juliet Mills, Sal Mineo, Darren McGavin, Nico Minardos

Synopsis: Completed in 1968, the made-for-TV The Challengers wasn't telecast until one year later. This Grand Prix melodrama top-bills Darren McGavin as a veteran racer whose wife (Juliet Mills) wants him to retire. A secondary plot involves Sean Garrison and Nico Minardos, who carry their on-track rivalry Read More

Lady in Cement

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Richard Conte, Martin Gabel, Lainie Kazan

Synopsis: Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) is a Miami private detective who discovers a lady in cement while scuba diving. Rome is hired by Gronsky (Dan Blocker) to find out if the woman is his missing girlfriend. He interviews Kit Forrest (Raquel Welch), a boozy socialite who had seen the woman at a drunken party Read More

Tony Rome

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Jill St. John, Richard Conte, Gena Rowlands, Simon Oakland

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra brings a sneering Rat Pack ethos to his first hard-boiled detective role in Tony Rome. Tony is an ex-cop who lives on a houseboat off Miami, accepting fees for private-eye work. His former partner, Ralph Turpin (Robert J. Wilke), asks Tony for help in locating Diana Pines (Sue Lyon) Read More

Death Sentence

Synopsis: Death Sentence is the literal English translation of Setenza di Morte, the original Italian title of this spaghetti western. Robin Clarke stars as a vengeful frontiersman whose brother has been killed. In the tradition of the Budd Boetticher classic Seven Men From Now, Clarke methodically hunts Read More

Hotel

Actors: Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak, Karl Malden, Melvyn Douglas, Merle Oberon

Synopsis: The posh St. Gregory Hotel in New Orleans is the setting for this drama based on a popular novel by Arthur Hailey. Trent (Melvyn Douglas) is the long-time owner who realizes that the hotel is in dire financial straits. Trent calls on faithful manager Peter McDermott (Rod Taylor) to try and bring Read More

Assault on a Queen

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa, Richard Conte, Alf Kjellin

Synopsis: Assault on a Queen is a complex, exciting crime-caper film in which a gang of clever mercenaries try to rob the famous luxury liner, the Queen Mary. Mark Brittain (Frank Sinatra) is hired by wealthy Italian adventuress Rosa Lucchesi (Verna Lisi) and her German partner-in-crime, Eric Laufftiauer (Alf Kjellin Read More

Synanon

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Chuck Connors, Stella Stevens, Alex Cord, Richard Conte

Synopsis: The difficulties faced by drug addicts attempting to kick their habits provide the basis of this gritty, realistic drama that was filmed at a real rehab house in Santa Monica, California. The story centers on Zankie (Alex Cord), an ex-con who is having trouble following the strict rules of the Read More

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Actors: Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Robert Loggia, Claude Rains, José Ferrer, Charlton Heston

Synopsis: Filmmaker George Stevens chose Monument Valley, Utah for his exterior sequences in The Greatest Story Ever Told, this ($20 million) adaptation of Fulton Oursler's best-selling book. The "Greatest Story" is, of course, the life of Jesus Christ, played herein by Max Von Sydow. The large supporting Read More

Circus World

Actors: John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale, Rita Hayworth, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte

Synopsis: Filmed in Cinerama and Technicolor, Circus World may have drawn the crowds for various reasons -- not the least, perhaps, for the big names. John Wayne stars as circus owner Matt Masters, who takes his show to Europe hoping to save it from financial ruin. Accompanying Matt, is young Toni (Claudia Cardinale Read More

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

Actors: Dean Martin, Elizabeth Montgomery, Martin Balsam, Jill St. John, Richard Conte, Carol Burnett

Synopsis: This romantic adult comedy finds psychiatrist Jason Steel (Dean Martin) the leader of a women's group therapy session. Jill St. John, Elizabeth Frazier, Macha Meril, Yoko Tani and Diane Foster all seek the advice of the handsome doctor, while husbands Louis Nye, Jack Soo, Richard Conte, and Martin Read More

The Eyes of Annie Jones

Synopsis: In this thriller, an orphan with ESP is engaged to help solve the abduction of a wealthy Englishwoman by her aunt. The rich woman's brother and the local cabbie believe in the girl's mysterious talent. They are terrified that she will lead the authorities to the woman's corpse. The brother stops Read More

The Untouchables: The Chess Game

Synopsis: Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) heads to Boston to locate the source for the bootleg champagne that is flooding into Chicago's speakeasies. Ness is convinced that Ira Bauer (Richard Conte), a blind fishing magnate who enjoys such "exercises of the mind" as reading, playing chess, and outwitting the Read More

The Untouchables: The Organization

Synopsis: Though set in the 1930s, this episode is clearly based on the infamous Appalachin Mafia conference of 1957. Gangsters Al Seeger (Richard Conte) and Joe "The Teacher" Kulak (Oscar Beregi) call a summit meeting to establish a consolidation of all organized crime in the U.S., the better to take over Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Old Pro

Synopsis: Retired professional assassin Frank Burns (Richard Conte) has told his new wife, Loretta (Sara Shane), that he used to be an engineer. Unfortunately, a man named Cullen (Stacy Harris) knows the truth about Burns, and he threatens to tell all unless he is paid off. Not one to be threatened, Frank Read More

Ocean's Eleven

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson

Synopsis: During a Los Angeles Christmas, a group of 82nd Airborne vets assembles under the leadership of gamblin' man Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) to rip off four Las Vegas casinos just after the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day. Playboy Jimmy Foster (Peter Lawford) joins in the scheme because he's sick Read More

Pepe

Actors: Cantinflas, Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones, Carlos Montalban, Vicki Trickett, Bing Crosby

Synopsis: Popular Mexican comedian Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) plays the title character in this star-studded, amusing comedy drama by George Sidney. Pepe is the same sort of impoverished stereotype Cantinflas made famous in several of his comedies; in this case he is a hired hand on a ranch who chases down a Read More

They Came to Cordura

Actors: Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Richard Conte, Michael Callan

Synopsis: Gary Cooper stars in one of his final roles in They Came To Cordura, Robert Rossen's moody study of the thin dividing line between heroism and cowardice. Cooper plays Major Thomas Thorn, a U.S. Army officer in the expedition into Mexico against Pancho Villa. Because he hesitated during a moment of Read More

The Twilight Zone: Perchance to Dream

Actors: Richard Conte, John Larch, Suzanne Lloyd, Eddie Marr

Synopsis: Originally telecast November 27, 1959, "Perchance to Dream" was writer Charles Beaumont's first contribution to The Twilight Zone. Richard Conte stars as Edward Hall, a man who lives in mortal fear of falling asleep. Visiting a psychiatrst (John Larch), Hall explains that he has a weak heart, and Read More

Barrage Contre le Pacifique

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Silvana Mangano, Richard Conte, Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis: An overbearing woman is determined to force her two kids to turn her struggling rice plantation into a success. Unfortunately, it is located on the Indochinese coast and is being threatened by rough seas; all that stands between the paddies and the ocean is a small seawall. More trouble comes in Read More

The Brothers Rico

Actors: Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant, Larry Gates, James Darren

Synopsis: The Rico brothers are mobsters in the employ of syndicate head Sid Kubick. Richard Conte plays the one Rico brother who has forsaken crime. But the other Ricos (James Darren and Paul Picerni) haven't yet seen the light, causing a deep rift in the brothers' family bonds. Conte gets word that his Read More

End of a Gun

Synopsis: One last duel is expected of a retired gunfighter as brash, young gunfighters tempt him back onto the streets. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Full of Life

Actors: Judy Holliday, Richard Conte, Salvatore Baccaloni, Esther Minciotti, Joe de Santis

Synopsis: When Emily Rocco (Judy Holliday) waddles into view at the beginning of Full of Life, her appearance marked a cinematic breakthrough; seldom had so pregnant a leading lady ever appeared on an American movie screen. With her baby's birthdate only a month away, Emily and her husband Nick (Richard Read More

The Big Tip Off

Actors: Richard Conte, Constance Smith, Bruce Bennett, Cathy Downs, James Millican

Synopsis: A TV telethon is the "gimmick" in Allied Artists' The Big Tipoff. Richard Conte plays two-bit newspaper columnist Johnny Denton, who gains notoreity by printing tips on upcoming gangland activities. Denton heightens his fame by refusing to reveal the source of his information; the audience knows Read More

Target Zero

Actors: Richard Conte, Peggie Castle, Charles Bronson, Richard Stapley, L.Q. Jones

Synopsis: Apparently as a reward for his excellent performance in the 1954 western Drum Beat, Charles Bronson was given a leading role in this Warner Bros. programmer. The action takes place during the Korean War: a melting-pot unit of American soldiers, together with three British troopers, find themselves Read More

The Big Combo

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace, Robert Middleton

Synopsis: Police Lt. Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde) is criticized by his superior Capt. Peterson (Robert Middleton) for his obsessive but fruitless investigation of organized crime boss Mr. Brown (Richard Conte). Peterson calls it a waste of the taxpayers' money motivated by Diamond's love for Brown's Read More

I'll Cry Tomorrow

Actors: Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert, Jo Van Fleet, Don Taylor

Synopsis: Susan Hayward pulls out all the stops, and then some, in this cinemadaptation of singer Lillian Roth's autobiography I'll Cry Tomorrow. In as harshly realistic a manner as possible in the still censor-dominated Hollywood of 1955, the film recounts Roth's rise to fame, her precipitous fall and her Read More

A Race for Life

Actors: Richard Conte, Mari Aldon, George Coulouris, Peter Illing, Alec Mango

Synopsis: Less than a month after the release of 20th Century-Fox's The Racers, Lippert Productions picked up the American distribution rights for the British A Race for Life. Richard Conte stars as Peter Wells, a onetime champion race-car driver whose career was interrupted by the war. Linking up with an Read More

New York Confidential

Actors: Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Marilyn Maxwell, Anne Bancroft, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: New York Confidential is based on the Jack Lait-Lee Mortimer bestseller of the same name. Richard Conte plays Nick Magellan, a "torpedo" for Manhattan crime boss Charlie Lupo (Broderick Crawford). Pleased with Magellan's work, Charlie promotes him to the topmost rungs of the Syndicate. He regrets Read More

Bengazi

Actors: Richard Conte, Victor McLaglen, Richard Carlson, Mala Powers, Richard Erdman

Synopsis: Richard Conte plays the obligatory Man With a Past in RKO's Bengazi. Joining up with disreputable Irishman Victor McLaglen and army deserter Richard Erdman, Conte heads into the African desert in search of hidden Arab gold. They in turn are pursued by British police inspector Richard Carlson and Read More

Case of the Red Monkey

Actors: Richard Conte, Rona Anderson, Russell Napier, Colin Gordon, Arnold Marle

Synopsis: Someone is knocking off top atomic scientists in England. Scotland Yard is summoned to stem the carnage and find the killer. The solution involves the activities of Communist agents operating with the ranks of the scientists. American actor Richard Conte is top-billed, primarily as a means to get Read More

Highway Dragnet

Actors: Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix, Reed Hadley, Mary Beth Hughes

Synopsis: Highway Dragnet is best known to modern movie buffs as the first film to carry Roger Corman's name in the credits. Corman was one of six screenwriters contributing to this location-filmed suspense melodrama, which stars Richard Conte as an ex-Marine on the lam from a murder charge. Conte hitches a Read More

The Blue Gardenia

Actors: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr, Jeff Donnell

Synopsis: After learning that her boyfriend, a GI in Korea, has found someone else, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) impulsively agrees to meet womanizer Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr) for dinner. Norah allows herself to get drunk and accept Prebble's invitation to his apartment. When he tries to force himself on Read More

Desert Legion

Actors: Alan Ladd, Richard Conte, Arlene Dahl, Akim Tamiroff, Oscar Beregi

Synopsis: In this romantic desert adventure a handsome, Foreign Legionnaire survives a surprise attack and becomes the ward of a beautiful princess who takes him back to her splendiferous city in the remote mountains. After he heals, she begs his assistance, but still weakened from his injuries, he passes Read More

Slaves of Babylon

Actors: Richard Conte, Linda Christian, Maurice Schwartz, Terry Kilburn, Michael Ansara

Synopsis: Producer Sam Katzman once more rummages through stock footage from the 1953 Columbia costumer Salome and comes up with another "instant epic." Slaves of Babylon stars Richard Conte as Nahum, the muscular young representative of Hebrew leader Daniel (Maurice Schwartz). On behalf of his master Read More

The Fighter

Actors: Richard Conte, Vanessa Brown, Lee J. Cobb, Frank Silvera, Roberta Haynes

Synopsis: Based on The Mexican, a novel by Jack London, this is the story of a young man whose family, girlfriend and village were destroyed by the forces of a ruthless dictator. When he joins the revolutionaries who are seeking his overthrow, he finds that his boxing abilities are perhaps a means for him Read More

The Raiders

Actors: Richard Conte, Viveca Lindfors, Barbara Britton, Hugh O'Brian, Richard Martin

Synopsis: It's always a pleasure to see ace western director Leslie Selander in action, and Riders of Vengeance is no exception. Originally released as The Raiders, this Universal programmer stars Richard Conte as a miner who leads an expedition of his compatriots to the California Gold Rush. Crooked Morris Ankrum Read More

The Raging Tide

Actors: Richard Conte, Shelley Winters, Stephen McNally, Charles Bickford, Alex Nicol

Synopsis: The Raging Tide stars Richard Conte as San Francisco crime boss Bruno Felkin. After killing off a rival, Felkin tries to arrange an alibi with his girlfriend Connie Thatcher (Shelley Winters). Unfortunately, she isn't available, obliging Felkin to hide out on a fishing boat owned by Ilmael Linder (Charles Bickford Read More

Hollywood Story

Actors: Richard Conte, Julie Adams, Richard Egan, Henry Hull, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Economically utilizing the Universal Studio itself as a "set," Hollywood Story is a murder mystery centered in the film capital. The story concerns a long-unsolved homicide case involving several silent-film stars (an echo of the William Desmond Taylor scandal of 1922). Producer Richard Conte Read More

Under the Gun

Actors: Richard Conte, Audrey Totter, John McIntire, Sam Jaffe, Shepperd Strudwick

Synopsis: Richard Conte plays a big-city racketeer whose luck runs out on him. He is sent to a Southern prison, but vows to be out and about before long. Applying a little psychology and a lot of cynicism, Conte manages to pull off his escape by firing only one shot. He wheedles his way into becoming a Read More

The Sleeping City

Actors: Richard Conte, Coleen Gray, Richard Taber, John Alexander, Peggy Dow, Alex Nicol

Synopsis: One of the finest and most troubling films to come out of Universal-International, The Sleeping City tried to emulate some of the cinéma vérité elements of The Naked City (which had been produced at Universal's facilities). The producers got the permission of the city of New York to shoot Read More

Whirlpool

Actors: Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer, Charles Bickford, Eduard Franz, Barbara O'Neil

Synopsis: In this compelling and unusual psychological melodrama Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney), a woman tormented by her secret kleptomania seeks help from a unscrupulous hypnotist David Korvo (Jose Ferrer). Although she is married to a successful psychiatrist (Richard Conte), and has no need to steal the Read More

Big Jack

Actors: Wallace Beery, Richard Conte, Marjorie Main, Edward Arnold, Vanessa Brown

Synopsis: Wallace Beery's final film was the curiously endearing "black comedy" Big Jack. Set in 1820, a time when "science was a crime and crime not yet a science," the film casts Beery and Marjorie Main as outlaws Big Jack Horner and Flapjack Kate. The two bandits rescue visionary young doctor Alexander Read More

Thieves' Highway

Actors: Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence, Jack Oakie, Millard Mitchell

Synopsis: Thieves' Highway is set in San Francisco and the surrounding countryside. Richard Conte plays Nick Garcos, an American GI who returns from WWII to find that his father Yanko (Morris Carnovsky), a produce trucker, has lost the use of both legs because of a fight with crooked truck driver Mike Read More

House of Strangers

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Luther Adler, Paul Valentine

Synopsis: House of Strangers is the first of three film versions of Jerome Weidman's I'll Never Go Home Any More, each of which was scripted by Philip Yordan. Edward G. Robinson plays a Giannini-like Italian-American banker, Gino Monetti, who runs roughshod over his four grown sons. The ruthless Gino Read More

Cry of the City

Actors: Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark, Shelley Winters, Debra Paget, Betty Garde

Synopsis: The opening scene of Robert Siodmak's grim film noir depicts police lieutenants Candella (Victor Mature) and Collins (Fred Clark) observing wounded cop killer Martin Rome (Richard Conte) receive last rites. Though Rome recovers, he still must elude Candella and Collins in his desperate attempt to Read More

Appointment with Murder

Actors: John Calvert, Catherine Craig, Jack Reitzen

Synopsis: Appointment with Murder is the second of three "Falcon" mysteries produced by bargain-basement Film Classics Productions in the late 1940s. Professional magician John Calvert assumes the leading role of private eye Michael Lanyard, aka The Falcon. Working for an insurance company, Lanyard travels Read More

Call Northside 777

Actors: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker, Betty Garde, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: In this documentary-inspired thriller, P.J. McNeal (James Stewart) is a reporter who is asked by his editor to look into a potential story: their newspaper has been carrying an ad offering a substantial reward for information regarding the murder of a policeman that occurred eleven years ago. It Read More

The Other Love

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, David Niven, Maria Palmer, Joan Lorring, Richard Conte

Synopsis: Barbara Stanwyck headlines this romantic tearjerker as a free-spirited concert pianist dying of tuberculosis. She checks into a posh Alpine sanitarium and there falls in love with her suave and gentle doctor (David Niven). The poor physician has his hands full trying to keep the energetic Stanwyck Read More

13 Rue Madeleine

Actors: James Cagney, Annabella, Roland Belanger, Richard Conte, Frank Latimore, Walter Abel

Synopsis: This film is not only a revealing glimpse into the workings of the O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services) during WW II, but it is also a full-fledged spy thriller. An excellent cast includes James Cagney, Karl Malden, E.G. Marshall, and Red Buttons. Cagney stars as an O.S.S. training officer, bent Read More

Somewhere in the Night

Actors: Charles Arnt, Richard Benedict, Whit Bissell, Richard Conte, Clancy Cooper

Synopsis: George Taylor (John Hodiak) is a war veteran suffering from amnesia with only two clues to his past: the bitter letter from a woman who hates him and another mysterious letter signed "Larry Cravat." Taylor goes to Los Angeles to meet Cravat. It turns out that Cravat is wanted for murder and the Read More

The Spider

Actors: Richard Conte, Faye Marlowe, Kurt Kreuger, John Harvey, Martin Kosleck

Synopsis: In this mystery, a detective and his partner are hired by a carnival psychic to help her find her long-lost sister who vanished a few years back. It is the partner who solves the mystery, but before she can tell her boss, she is killed. The detective is accused of the crime and arrested. He Read More

A Walk in the Sun

Actors: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, John Ireland, Norman Lloyd, George Tyne, Lloyd Bridges, Sterling Holloway

Synopsis: Harry Brown's honest, unsentimental WW2 novel A Walk in the Sun has been effectively adapted for the screen by Robert Rossen. Dana Andrews stars as Sgt. Tyne, a platoon squad leader in Italy who ends up assuming command of his platoon after a series of deaths. As they prepare to attack an isolated Read More

Captain Eddie

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Lynn Bari, Charles Bickford, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan

Synopsis: Famed WW1 aviator Eddie Rickenbacker once more entered the public's consciousness during WW2 when, while serving as an Air Force officer, he and several other pilots crashed into the Pacific. While the world anxiously awaited news of his fate, Rickenbacker and a handful of survivors floated for 19 Read More

A Bell for Adano

Actors: Luis Alberni, Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, Henry Armetta, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Roman Bohnen

Synopsis: Director Henry King's adaptation of John Hersey's novel is a faithful telling of the story of Major Joppolo (John Hodiak), who is assigned to administrate the Sicilian town of Adano after World War II and attempts to return it to its pre-war tranquility. His initial actions include feeding and Read More

The Purple Heart

Actors: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger, Sam Levene, Kevin O'Shea, Don "Red" Barry, Tala Birell

Synopsis: The year is 1942: eight American airmen crash-land during the Doolittle bombing raid on Tokyo and are taken prisoner. Though slated for execution, the pilots are put through a "show trial" by the military, on a charge of committing war crimes. The Japanese judges promise to be merciful if only the Read More

Guadalcanal Diary

Actors: Preston S. Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn

Synopsis: 20th Century-Fox's 1943 filmization of Richard Tregaskis' best-selling book Guadalcanal Diary does full justice to the spare, lean prose of Tregaskis' eyewitness account. The incidents in the "diary" are tied together by an off-screen narrator into a cohesive storyline. The principal characters Read More

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

Actors: Jean Rogers, Raymond Walburn, Marjorie Rambeau, Glenn Ford, Nicholas Conte

Synopsis: In his feature film debut, Glenn Ford plays a department-store clerk who saves up enough money to buy a small patch of land in Arizona. Unable to afford a car, Ford hitchhikes to his new home, and along the way teams up with a transient (Richard Conte) and an illegal alien (Jean Rogers). The girl Read More

Hollywood Stadium Mystery

Crew: Producer

Actors: Neil Hamilton, Evelyn Venable, Jimmy Wallington, Barbara Pepper, Lucien Littlefield

Synopsis: Among the best-known of Republic's "B" pictures of the late 1930s, Hollywood Stadium Mystery is a neat and satisfying whodunit with very little "waste" footage. Neil Hamilton is his usual stalwart self as District Attorney Bill Devons, who tries to solve a murder that was committed in full view of Read More