海外特派员

　　Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge. They make him wear a uniform complete with medals and is pushed by his new friends into accepting a Hero's welcome when he gets home where he is to be immortalized by a statue that he doesn't want, has songs written about his heroic battle stories, and ends up unwillingly running for mayor. Despite his best efforts to explain the truth, no one will listen.

　　1944年，罗马，被纳粹侵占下伤痕累累的大街。德军肆无忌惮的搜捕着保卫家园的游击队，意大利地下反抗组织领袖、工程师乔治·曼菲蒂（马塞罗·巴格利埃罗 Marcello Pagliero 饰）遭到德军追缉。危急中，曼菲蒂逃往朋友弗朗西斯科家中暂避，在弗朗西斯科的未婚妻碧娜（安娜·玛妮雅妮 Anna Magnani 饰）的帮助下，曼菲蒂见到了唐·彼得罗神父（阿尔多·伯立兹 Aldo Fabrizi 饰），并请神父将一笔巨款交给游击队。弗兰西斯科为了掩护曼菲蒂而被捕，碧娜也中弹身亡。然而绝处逢生的曼菲蒂被女友告密，曼菲蒂和神父被捕入狱。纳粹故意在神父面前严刑拷打曼菲蒂，两人最终在敌人的酷刑和枪弹下英勇牺牲。
　　本片根据塞吉欧·阿米迪的原著改编。