– 1946 German film by Wolfgang Staudte about a demobilized Berliner who plans to assassinate his former officer, a war criminal The Killers – 1946 film by Robert Siodmak about two hitmen, starring Burt Lancaster and based on the story by Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway All the King's Men – 1949 film by Robert Rossen about the assassination of Southern governor Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford), inspired by the 1935 death of Louisiana governor Huey Long Border Incident – 1949 film by Anthony Mann in which a Mexican federal PJF agent (Ricardo Montalbán), undercover as a bracero, is targeted by corrupt U.S. ranchers Prince of Foxes – 1949 film by Henry King in which an artist (Tyrone Power) and an assassin join forces against Cesare Borgia in the Italian Renaissance 1950s The Sound of Fury – 1950 film by Cy Endfield in which two kidnappers (Frank Lovejoy, Lloyd Bridges) are lynched after a journalist's provocation, inspired by the 1933 Brooke Hart lynching case where the California Governor colluded with the mob The Gunfighter – 1950 Western by Henry King in which a notorious gunfighter (Gregory Peck) is shot in the back by a tyro, for the sake of the fame Quo Vadis – 1951 film by Mervyn LeRoy, about the persecution of early Christians, involves the crucifixion of Saint Peter (in AD 64), then the murder of Empress Poppaea by Emperor Nero (Peter Ustinov), and the mercy killing of Nero by his Christian friend Acte, inspired by the suicide of Nero in AD 68 Murder in the Cathedral – 1951 film by George Hoellering about the assassination of Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket (John Groser) in 1170, based on the play by T.S. Eliot The Desert Fox – 1951 film by Henry Hathaway, about Field Marshal Rommel (James Mason), includes his failed assassination by British commandos in 1941 and his role in the Stauffenberg plot against Adolf Hitler The Tall Target – 1951 film by Anthony Mann about a conspiracy against Abraham Lincoln, known as the "Baltimore Plot", before his 1861 presidential inauguration The Magic Face – 1951 film by Frank Tuttle where an actor (Luther Adler) becomes Adolf Hitler's valet only to kill and replace him The Enforcer – 1951 film by Bretaigne Windust (and Raoul Walsh) about the Murder, Inc. group of professional hitmen, starring Humphrey Bogart Viva Zapata! – 1952 film by Elia Kazan about the murders of