Richard Conte
Actor
Films to Rent on DVD
- Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
- Dir. Lewis Seiler
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Lloyd Nolan, Preston Foster…
- Filmed just after US victory in the Solomon Islands during WW2, this standard issue war–film is a reasonably solid account of a grueling…
- Purple Heart, The (1944)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger…
- Watchable flag–waver from WW2 depicts the show trial of a crew of American airmen (led by Andrews) who are shot down over Tokyo in 1944. Has…
- Walk in the Sun, A (1945)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne…
- Absorbing character study of men at war set in WW2 North Africa.
- A Bell For Adano (1945)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, William Bendix…
- Hodiak plays an army major assigned to restore order in a small Italian town in this gentle–natured drama. The luminous –and blonde…
- Somewhere in the Night (1946)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan…
- Often underrated 'film noir' has an amnesiac soldier (Hodiak) return to Los Angeles from WW2 to rediscover his identity, only he may not want to... A…
- 13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte…
- A group of OSS operatives penetrate behind German lines in this rough–edged WWII thriller. Seeking a secret missile site, they must also…
- Call Northside 777 (1948)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. James Stewart, Lee J. Cobb, Richard Conte…
- An enjoyable 'noir' yarn, based on the true story of a man unjustly imprisoned for the murder of a policeman in 1930s Chicago.
Jimmie Stewart…
- Cry of the City (1948)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark…
- Dying cop–killer Conte refuses to confess to a crime, and worries that childhood friend turned flinty cop Mature, will implicate his girlfriend…
- Thieves' Highway (1949)
- Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb…
- One of dir. Dassin's early noir triumphs, this has Conte seeking to avenge his father's maiming at the hands of a corrupt Californian fruit…
- Whirlpool (1949)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, Jose Ferrer…
- Tierney stars as Mrs Ann Sutton, a beautiful woman who seems to be living the dream in LA with her successful psychoanalyst husband William (Conte),…