Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Frank Enley returns home from World War II, Fact2: war hero is respected for fine character and good works in California town of Santa Lisa, Fact3: he young wife and baby had settled after moving from East Santa Lisa, Fact4: Frank relocated them in attempt to escape past, Fact5: Joe is determined to exact justice on Frank
Output (English): After surviving a Nazi POW camp where comrades were murdered by guards during an escape attempt, Frank Enley Van Heflin, returns home from World War II. The war hero is respected for his fine character and good works in the California town of Santa Lisa, where he, his young wife and baby had settled after moving from the East. What his wife does not know is that Frank relocated them in an attempt to escape his past. His nemesis is Joe Parkson Robert Ryan, once his best friend, who also lived through the ordeal, although he was left with a crippled leg. In exchange for food, Frank had alerted the Nazi camp commander to the prisoners escape plans, thinking wrongly that the men would not be punished. Joe is determined to exact justice on Frank, whose location he has learned from a newspaper story commending Enley for his civic endeavors. Franks wife Edith Janet Leigh is completely in the dark about his past, while Joes girlfriend Ann Sturgess Phyllis Thaxter knows everything about her man, but cannot dissuade him from his passion to set past wrongs right by seeing Frank dead. Frank must confront the truth that he is a coward, not a hero. Doggedly pursued by Joe, who stalks Franks family at their house, Frank goes into hiding, leaving his confused wife behind. At a trade convention in Los Angeles, Frank enlists a pastherprime prostitute, Pat Mary Astor, who introduces him to a shady lawyer and a hitman, Johnny Berry Kroeger. Frank lures Joe into meeting him at the Santa Lisa train station, where the hitman plans to drive up and kill Joe, the gunshot muffled by the noise of the train. After waking from a drunken binge, Frank regrets the deal and tries to warn Joe at the station. Johnny is already waiting with a gun, but before he can complete the job Frank jumps in front of the shot. Although wounded, Frank manages to grab Johnny as he speeds off in his car, causing it to crash into a lamppost. Both Johnny and Frank are killed. Joe, realizing what Frank has done, kneels by his old captain and tells the surrounding crowd that he will be the one to tell Franks wife.