This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this location, that blocked the way for the Allied forces from the Germans.

Dr. Amusa approaches Dortmunder about a valuable gem in a museum that is of great signifigance to his people in Africa, stolen during colonial times. Dortmunder assembles a crack team of cat burglars and hatches an elaborate plan for stealing the gem. Despite their care and experience, circumstances and plain bad luck keep the gem just out of their reach.

This is an English language film (made in America) adapted from a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque. The film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War 1 by their jingoistic teacher. The story is told entirely through the experiences of the young German recruits and highlights the tragedy of war through the eyes of individuals. As the boys witness death and mutilation all around them, any preconceptions about "the enemy" and the "rights and wrongs" of the conflict disappear, leaving them angry and bewildered. This is highlighted in the scene where Paul mortally wounds a French soldier and then weeps bitterly as he fights to save his life while trapped in a shell crater with the body. The film is not about heroism but about drudgery and futility and the gulf between the concept of war and the actuality.

agline: A man-hungry wife plots to murder her husband…. Based on a novel by Emile Zola…. The suspicions of former railroader Carl Buckley (Broderick Crawford) are confirmed when he beats his seductive, young wife Vicki (Gloria Grahame) into admitting that the time she passed with a railroad official was not entirely about his recent dismissal. Carl forces Vicki to set up a meeting on a train, and knifes his rival. Railroad engineer Jeff Warren (Glenn Ford) sees Vicki emerge from the murder compartment but, because of mutual attractions, refrains from testifying. Vicki uses her blandishments on Jeff in an effort to have him kill Carl; when Jeff refuses, she flees. Carl follows and strangles the girl. Freed of his infatuation for Vicki, Jeff is able to resume his romance with the pretty daughter of his co-worker (Edgar Buchanan).

Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn't very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba. Wormold hasn't got a clue where to start but when his friend Dr. Hasselbacher suggests that the best secrets are known to no one, he decides to manufacture a list of agents and provides fictional tales for the benefit of his masters in London. He is soon seen as the best agent in the Western Hemisphere but it all begins to unravel when the local police decode his cables and start rounding up his "network" and he learns that he is the target of a group out to kill him.