Novel
El Capitán Brad Parker, un oficial americano, se encuentra en el frente el 6 de junio de 1944, el Día D, cuando 3.000.000 de hombres, 11.000 aviones y 4.000 barcos están preparados para llevar a cabo la invasión de Normandía, hecho que determinará el futuro del mundo. La casualidad ha querido que Parker y su comandante, además de combatir juntos, estén enamorados de la misma mujer.
Story
The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy renews his criminal activities.
Novel
John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II. Sentenced to death, the general appeals to the American investigating Major (Ray Milland), claiming mitigating circumstances, and providing the names of witnesses who will clear his name. This sends the Major in a search through the ruins of post-war Germany to determine the degree of the general's guilt.
