With Ang Lee’s current movie "Lust, Caution," filmgoers again get the chance to experience another of the endless stories dealing with World War II.

If, like me, you can't get enough World War II stories, here are some older films I recommend: "The Bridge on the River Kwai," only a slightly fictionalized telling of the true story of courageous British soldiers who built a bridge under the control of their Japanese captors in the teeming, steamy jungles of Burma. Directed by Sir David Lean, it's one of the great films of all time, made in 1957 on location in Celon (now Sri Lanka) for an astonishing seven million dollars!

"The Counterfeit Traitor" stars William Holden in a true story of an American businessman who became a Swiss citizen before the war, and was recruited by the allies to spy on Germany's industrial capacity. Much of the film takes place in Berlin where he found romance (in a role wonderfully portrayed by Lilly Palmer), faced death, but still made a major contribution to the war effort.

In "The Man Who Never Was," a stirring 1956 movie directed by Ronald Neame, one retells the stirring cloak and daggar tale of the allies' plan to divert the Germans to the wrong location prior to the invasion of Sicily. Urbane Clifton Webb plays the naval officer who conceived a plan to dump a body of a British officer off a submarine near the coast of Huelva, Spain. The body carried bogus papers about the invasion. The Germans found the body, inspected the papers, then sent in a spy to check the veracity of the courier.

All three are worth checking out on home video.