Lee Wallace

The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.

Four armed men hijack a New York City subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. The city's police are faced with a conundrum: Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

A sheltered young high-society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a trickier situation than she ever expected.

At her husband's funeral, a Jewish mother encounters her late husband's Italian friend who secretly loved her. He had previously advised her husband against leaving home, causing tension between her and her two divorced daughters.