All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Elisha Cook Jr, ranked

In San Francisco in 1941, private investigators Sam Spade and Miles Archer meet prospective client Ruth Wonderly. He meets his friend, Police Detective Tom Polhaus, at the murder scene and then tries calling his client at her hotel, but she has checked out. Back at his apartment, he is grilled by Polhaus and Lieutenant Dundy, who tell him that Thursby was also murdered the same evening.

In 1965, Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse rent an apartment in the Bramford, a large Gothic building in New York City. They ignore their friend Hutch’s warning about the Bramford’s dark past with witchcraft and murder. Rosemary meets a young woman, Terry Gionoffrio, a recovering drug addict whom Minnie and Roman Castevet, the Woodhouses’ elderly neighbors, took in.

Johnny Clay is a veteran criminal planning one last heist before settling down and marrying Fay. Johnny assembles a team consisting of a corrupt cop, a betting window teller to gain access to the backroom, a sharpshooter to shoot the favorite horse during the race to distract the crowd, a wrestler to provide another distraction by provoking a fight at the track bar, and a track bartender.

Private detective Philip Marlowe is summoned to the mansion of General Sternwood, who wants to resolve ‘gambling debts’ that his daughter Carmen owes to bookseller Arthur Geiger. She suspects her father’s true motive for hiring a detective is to find his protégé Sean Regan who had mysteriously disappeared a month earlier.

Shane, a laconic but skilled gunfighter with a mysterious past, is a drifter who rides into an isolated valley in the sparsely settled Wyoming Territory, sometime after the Civil War. On Shane’s next trip to town with the Starrett’s and other homesteaders, he defeats Calloway, and then he and Starrett win a bar room brawl against most of Ryker’s other men.

At a church in Guatemala, a man and a boy, Ben Mears and Mark Petrie, are filling small bottles with holy water. Attempting to rent it, Mears finds that it has already been purchased by another new arrival in town, the mysterious Richard Straker, who is in the process of opening an antique shop with his oft-mentioned but never present business partner, Kurt Barlow.

The son of the renowned detective Sam Spade continues the family legacy by entangling himself with the Maltese Falcon, and with individuals willing to resort to anything, including murder, to obtain it.