Sam Levene
16 titles
Filmography
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The True Glory
(1945)Utilizing footage filmed by military photographers, this documentary recounts the historic events from the D-Day invasion to the end of World War II.

Three Sailors and a Girl
(1953)Three guys join the leading lady (Jane Powell) in a Broadway show bankrolled by their submarine buddies.
Act One
(1963)The time is 1929. The place is Broadway. Moss Hart, one of the greatest playwrights of the American theater, struggles until he begins a lifelong collaboration with Samuel Kaufman, raising the curtain on one of the theater's most prolific teams: For Moss Hart, success begins--Act One. Hart (George Hamilton) writes dark, unproduced dramas and directs local theater comedies. But only when he writes a comedy and a producer teams him with Samuel S. Kaufman (Academy Award winner Jason Robards) does Hart find commercial success with Once in a Lifetime and a lifelong collaborative partnership destined to produce a string of hits.

Last Embrace
(1979)After a psychopath starts sending him death threats, Harry hires a private investigator to help him find the stalker and unravel the intricate puzzle.

Guilty Bystander
(1950)In New York City, ex-cop Max Thursday, now the house detective at a scuzzy hotel in an even scuzzier part of town, exists in an alcoholic haze until his ex-wife appears with news of his son’s disappearance. So, Thursday stumbles through the city’s sleazy underworld searching for his kidnapped son.

The Babe Ruth Story
(1948)William Bendix suits up in Yankee flannels as the renowned pitcher-turned-outfielder Babe Ruth in a sports biopic that mixes facts with fiction.

The Money
(1976)A prominent businessman's children become the target of a young, unemployed man, who sees them as his ticket to wealth.

God Told Me To
(1976)A detective uncovers evidence of a malevolent alien messiah while investigating a series of senseless murders committed by random New Yorkers.

Gung Ho!
(1943)Un coronel de la Marina lidera un batallĂłn en una incursiĂłn en la isla Makin, fuertemente fortificada y controlada por los japoneses.

Boomerang!
(1947)Boomerang, directed by Elia Kazan, is a chilling film noir, the true story about the murder of a priest, the subsequent arrest and trial of a jobless drifter, and the efforts of young state's attorney Henry Harvey (Dana Andrews) to uncover the truth.

Action in the North Atlantic
(1943)Oscar® winner Humphrey Bogart stars in this exciting drama about a Merchant Marine vessel's fight against German attacks at the start of World War II.

Sweet Smell of Success
(1957)An influential Broadway columnist recruits a publicist to break up his daughter’s romance with a jazz guitarist in an ugly game of power and survival.

Crossfire
(1947)This gritty film noir made history as the first Hollywood film to confront antisemitism. Three of the era’s most celebrated Roberts—Young, Mitchum, and Ryan—star in the hard-hitting tale of a police detective and an army sergeant whose investigation into the murder of a Jewish veteran leads them to a psychotic soldier consumed by hatred and bigotry. The first B movie to be nominated for the Academy Award for best picture, CROSSFIRE also netted a best supporting actor nomination for Robert Ryan, whose breakthrough performance as the vicious killer established his edgy, tightly wound screen persona.
Grand Central Murder
(1942)
The Big Street
(1942)A broadway nightclub waiter falls in love with a crippled singer who selfishly accepts his help without loving him in return.

The Shopworn Angel
(1938)The chemistry that Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart would lift to exquisite heights in The Shop Around the Corner is on earlier display in this tender romance scripted by Waldo Salt (Midnight Cowboy, Coming Home). Sullavan portrays Daisy Heath, a Broadway songbird who knows too much about life. Texas doughboy Bill Pettigrew (Stewart) knows little, except that he'll soon be shipped overseas to the World War I trenches. And that he's been crazy in love with Daisy ever since they shared a taxi. Increasingly charmed by Bill's heartfelt devotion and hoping to give him something to look forward to while he's risking death over there, Daisy agrees to marry him. But there's something about her Bill doesn't know....