A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.

Lily Macbeth pushes her husband Joe to rub out the reigning crime boss and become the new kingpin himself. Success is short-lived, however, as he confronts Lennie, a mobster whose father and wife were Joe's murder victims.

Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.

A factory worker quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.

Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall