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A reluctant soldier, Peter, serves in Italy during WWII. He marries a local girl named Teresa and brings her to the US.

An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.

Hollywood actor Charles Castle is pressured by his studio boss into a criminal cover-up to protect his valuable career.

In Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies.

A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.

A new foreman rejects the sexual advances of a frustrated rancher's wife, which leads to conflicts that could get him killed.

An ex-sportswriter is hired by a shady fight promoter to promote his latest find, an unknown but easily exploitable rising star from Argentina.

After a commercial plane crash lands in a South American jungle, the passengers and pilots must patch up the engines and escape the cannibal-infested area.

A gold-digger floozy marries a wealthy wine producer but she secretly takes a young lover with whom she conspires to murder her husband for his fortune.

After the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when the Sioux go to war against the U.S. Army.

A wealthy businessman in New York absconds to Mexico by train in order to avoid capture for embezzlement. On the way, he steals the identity of another man for a visa, but that only complicates matters.

Duped by former Army pal Paul Hoplin into building a time bomb, New York shop owner Jim Molner and his family become hostages of Hoplin who uses bomb threats to extort money from airlines.

A chronicle of the rise and fall of Chicago crime boss Al Capone during the Prohibition era.

A motley crew of professional thieves plans the robbery of a Monte Carlo casino vault.

When an enigmatic woman hires a group of criminals to rob a US Army payroll armored truck bound for Marseilles things go wrong.

A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.

An aerospace engineer (Ladd) ignores a policeman (Steiger) and hunts down a gang of juvenile delinquents.

After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko (Ben Gazzara) is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora Prison where, with the help of a humane prison guard, he becomes a rehabilitated man and a successful painter.

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.

A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.

Rod Serling-scripted struggle between the last film mogul (Rod Steiger) and a new regime.

A Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.

Satire on the funeral business, in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery.

Based on the diary Pope John XXIII kept between the ages of 14 and 18, his lifelong concern for tolerance, the underprivileged, and world peace is told. Rod Steiger, in the central role, acts as "intermediary" between the Pope and the audience, interpreting John's words, thoughts and actions. Steiger visits the actual places in which John lived, recreating the conditions, environment, and forces that affected his development. Through this unusual technique, we are brought close to an extraordinary man - one who's able to win the love of many people of all faiths.