All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Gene Hackman, ranked

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein is a lecturing physician at an American medical school and engaged to Elizabeth, a socialite. He becomes exasperated when anyone brings up the subject of his grandfather Victor Frankenstein, the infamous mad scientist, and insists that his surname is pronounced Fronkensteen.

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein is a lecturing physician at an American medical school and engaged to Elizabeth, a socialite. He becomes exasperated when anyone brings up the subject of his grandfather Victor Frankenstein, the infamous mad scientist, and insists that his surname is pronounced Fronkensteen.

In Marseille, an undercover police detective follows Alain Charnier, who runs the world’s largest heroin-smuggling syndicate. Charnier plans to smuggle $32 million worth of heroin into the United States by hiding it in the car of his unsuspecting friend, television personality Henri Devereaux, who is traveling to New York City by ship. Popeye notices Salvatore Boca and his young wife, Angie, entertaining mobsters involved in narcotics.

Three escaped criminals from the planet Krypton test the Man of Steel’s mettle. Led by General Zod, the Kryptonians take control of the White House and partner with Lex Luthor to destroy Superman and rule the world. But Superman, who attempts to make himself human in order to get closer to Lois, realizes he has a responsibility to save the planet.

Operation Market Garden envisions 35,000 men being flown 300 miles from air bases in England and dropped behind enemy lines in the Netherlands. Although British officers note that the portable radios are not likely to work for the long distance from the drop zone to the Arnhem Bridge, they choose not to convey their concerns up a chain of command intent on silencing all doubt.

On the planet Krypton, Jor-El of the Kryptonian high council discovers that the planet will be destroyed when its red supergiant sun goes supernova. To save Kal-El, his infant son, Jor-El sends him in a spaceship to Earth, where his dense molecular structure will give him superhuman strength and other powers.

In 1915, married socialite Louise Bryant encounters the radical journalist John Reed for the first time at a lecture in Portland, Oregon, and is intrigued with his idealism. After meeting him for an interview on international politics that lasts an entire night, she realizes that writing has been her only escape from her frustrated high-society existence.

In New Orleans, a shooting takes place at a stock brokerage firm. Two years later, with attorney Wendell Rohr, Jacob’s widow Celeste takes Vicksburg Firearms to court on the grounds that the company’s gross negligence led to her husband’s death.

The SS Poseidon, an ocean liner slated for retirement, travels to Athens. Despite safety concerns from the captain, the new owner’s representative insists he go full speed to save money, preventing Poseidon from taking on ballast. A tidal wave hits her, flipping her over so that all the internal rooms are upside down. A priest takes a mixed band of survivors on a journey through the bowels of the ship in an attempt to survive.

U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Tom Farrell is interrogated by two men about how he first met Secretary of Defense David Brice. Brice and Pritchard, Brice’s second-in-command, orient him to his new assignment which clearly involves surreptitiously getting secret information from other government agencies, such as the CIA, and passing it on to Brice.

Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark, finds himself working for Ray Bones Barboni after the death of Palmer’s boss, Momo. Chili and Bones constantly clash, and he orders Chili to Las Vegas collect a debt from Leo Devoe, who faked his death to claim $300,000 in an insurance scam. While in Vegas, Chili picks up a second job to collect a debt from film producer Harry Zimm.

Mitch McDeere, about to graduate near the top of his class from Harvard Law School, accepts a generous job offer from Bendini, Lambert & Locke, a boutique firm in Memphis, Tennessee. During a working trip to the Cayman Islands, Mitch hears a client state that the firm’s Chicago clients break people’s legs, and finds suspicious documents in a locked closet at Avery’s vacation house relating to four of the firm’s associates who died under suspicious circumstances.