Captain Carey USA (1950)
Captain Carey USA (1950)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 6500 kbps | 5.0Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:23:00 | USA | Drama
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 6500 kbps | 5.0Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:23:00 | USA | Drama
A group of agents in the U. S. Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA)are sent to France during World War II to knock out the French railroad system and, in accomplishing this mission, most of them will be killed because of an inside betrayal. After the war, one of the agents returns to find the traitor
Captain Carey USA (1950)
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Alan Ladd, Wanda Hendrix, Francis Lederer, Joseph Calleia, Celia Lovsky, Richard Avonde, Frank Puglia, Luis Alberni, Angela Clarke, Roland Winters, Paul Lees, Jane Nigh, Russ Tamblyn, Virginia Farmer, David Leonard, Maria J. Tavares, George J. Lewis, Erno Verebes, Ray Walker, Argentina Brunetti, Gino Corrado, Henry A. Escalante, Thomas Browne Henry, Charles La Torre, Inez Palange, Hector Sarno
Captain Carey USA (1950)
Captain Carey USA (1950)
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In 1944, in a northern Italian village, American OSS officers Captain Webster "Web" Carey and his compatriot, Frank, hear their lookout, Mario, singing "Mona Lisa," the signal warning that German troops are near. Web and Frank escape to their hideout in an island palazzo, where Web's Italian girl friend, Giulia de Cresci, allows them to operate from a secret basement, which contains the treasures of her wealthy family. When Nazi soldiers invade the house, both Frank and Web are shot. Before Web becomes unconscious, he hears Giulia scream, followed by a gunshot. Four years later in New York, Web sees one of the de Cresci family paintings for sale in a gallery, and learns that the painting was smuggled out of Switzerland. Believing that the smuggler must be the same person who betrayed him to the Nazis, Web leaves his fiancee and returns to the Italian village to avenge Giulia's death. At the palazzo, however, he finds that Giulia is alive and married to Baron Rocco de Greffi. Giulia's brother Carlo, who was reported missing during the war, is also reunited with Giulia and her grandmother, Countess Francesca de Cresci, and all claim to know nothing of the painting. Web is snubbed by the villagers who once protected him because, on the eve of his capture, the Nazis shot twenty-eight villagers in retribution, and Mario was beaten to death by villagers who believed him to be the traitor. Mario's father Luigi now begs an indifferent Web to find the real traitor, as he is sure Mario was innocent. When Giulia comes to see Web in his hotel room, he learns that after his capture, she and her grandmother were imprisoned in a concentration camp, and that her grandmother told her that he was dead. Web and Giulia part friends, and he plans to leave Italy until Luigi is murdered in front of his hotel room door and the murder weapon is revealed to be Frank's old OSS knife. After the countess prevents the villagers from stoning Web to death, he seeks more information from Mario's wife Serafina. Serafina and her son Pietro have been snubbed by villagers since the war because of Mario's presumed betrayal, and she now believes that Giulia's family cut a deal with the Nazis in order to spare their family, and now work with the black market. Giulia later insists on accompanying Web to Milan so he can further investigate Serafina's claims. After several hours in the city, they finally locate Manfredo Acuto, an art dealer and acrobatics trainer, who reluctantly admits to having smuggled the de Cresci painting out of Italy, but denies any involvement in Luigi's murder. When Manfredo goes into another room, he is murdered by an unseen assailant. Giulia and Web then escape and return separately to the village, where a blind musician who feels kindly toward Web helps him elude police by playing "Mona Lisa" on his accordian as a warning. To Web's surprise, Rocco takes him to the palazzo where Giulia, pressured by her family, nervously confesses to being the traitor. Pietro, meanwhile, has overheard a conversation between Rocco and Web in which Rocco named Giulia as the traitor, and he and Serafina arouse the villagers to lynch her. As the villagers converge on the palazzo, Rocco, Carlo and their friend Giovanni take Web to his former hiding place, ostensibly to help him escape. Web finds many of the family paintings still there and confronts Rocco, who confesses that it was the countess who betrayed the Americans: After she learns that Carlo has been arrested by the Nazis, she contacts Rocco in Switzerland, who makes a deal with the Nazis to exchange Web for Carlo. Rocco now says he smuggled the paintings out of the country to finance his career as a politician, which would be hurt if it was known that he consorted with Nazis. He also admits to having contracted Giovanni to murder Luigi and Acuto to cover his tracks. After a struggle between Web, Giovanni and Rocco, Giovanni accidentally kills Rocco, and Web then kills Giovanni. Web emerges from the basement in time to save Giulia from the mob, and Giulia's and Serafina's names are cleared after he exposes Rocco as the traitor. However, Web keeps the countess's betrayal a secret, believing that her guilt will serve as her penance. Before Web turns himself in to the police, he gives Giulia the St. Christopher's medal that he wore during the war, asking her to send for him when she is ready to reunite.
Captain Carey USA (1950)
Captain Carey USA (1950)
