Robert Rossen

Itinerant pool shark challenges the top man for the championship, sacrificing everything until he realizes the stakes are too high.

An amoral, arrogant pool hustler who haunts backroom pool halls gets a real chance at fame when he faces the legendary Minnesota Fats in a personal competition.

Working-class dreamers Jonah and Olaf fish the Brooklyn waters and ponder their glorious plan: buy a big boat and head for sunny Cuba. Then an amoral gangster puts the squeeze on the few bucks they've saved and puts the moves on Jonah's daughter, a restless good girl who'd just as soon be bad. And the two friends, the two gentle souls, begin a new plan: murder.

The bullet that killed his daughter was meant for Boston cop Thomas Craven. That’s what police brass and Craven think, but that’s not what the investigation finds. With clue after clue and witness after witness, the search leads him into a shadowy realm where money and political intrigue intersect. If Craven wasn’t a target before, he – and anyone linked to his inquiry – now is. Mel Gibson stars in his first screen lead in eight years, making...

A World War I veteran (Cagney) returns to New York, innocently becomes involved in bootlegging, builds up an empire and dies in a gang war. Set against a background of newsreel-like montages and narration.

A mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England seems to weave a magical spell on a young man with an equally obscure past. Their relationship deepens leading to a shocking conclusion.

Set against the backdrop of the 1916 war against Pancho Villa, Thomas Thorn, a career Army officer, is given the task of leading five Medal of Honor candidates to the military base of Cordura, Texas. Branded a coward during battle, Thorn hopes to learn what these men possess which he lacks. As the journey through the desert progresses, the "heroes" panic, attempting murder, mutiny and rape as the quest for survival reveals their true characters.

After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, young Joe Bell also gets picked up for vagrancy and forced to work on a rock farm. A showdown with his sadistic foreman ends in accidental death. Joe runs away with the foreman's stepdaughter, and waits for his fate.

A walk in the sun (1945): An isolated farmhouse in Italy is being held by the Nazis. A lone American battalion has orders to capture it ... at any cost. As they prepare to attack, each of the infantrymen reflects on whether he has what it takes to accomlish the mission - and live. -- We dive at dawn (1943): The exhausted crew of the British submarine, sea Tiger, must rally for one final, desperate mission: to sink the German battleship, Brandenburg....

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.