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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Hal Holbrook, ranked
In April 1992, Christopher McCandless arrives in a remote area called Healy, just north of Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. McCandless travels into the wilderness and sets up a campsite in an abandoned city bus, which he calls The Magic Bus. At first, McCandless is content with the isolation, the beauty of nature around him, and the thrill of living off the land.
On June 17, 1972, security guard Frank Wills at the Watergate complex finds a door’s bolt taped over so that it will not lock. Woodward learns that the five men, four Cuban-Americans from Miami and James W. McCord, Jr., had electronic bugging equipment and are represented by a high-priced country club attorney.
The story of the Angeluzzi-Corbos family, a family of immigrants living an adopted life in New York City. The head of the family is Lucia Santa, a wife, widow and mother of two families. It is her formidable will that steers them through the Great Depression and the early years of World War II. But she cannot prevent the conflict between Italian and American values.
The decision to employ the atomic bomb to conclude World War II was a highly contentious occurrence in human history. This acclaimed miniseries, which won an Emmy in 1989, vividly depicts the conflicts through outstanding performances by a talented cast.
In January 1865, United States President Abraham Lincoln expects the Civil War to end soon, with the defeat of the Confederate States. He is concerned that his 1863 Emancipation Proclamation may be discarded by the courts after the war and that the proposed Thirteenth Amendment will be defeated by the returning slave states.
Mobster Carmine Ricca drives away from court in his limousine after being acquitted of a mass murder on a legal technicality. Inspector Harry Callahan visits the crime scene alongside his partner Earlington Smith, despite the fact that the two of them are supposed to be on stakeout duty. Sometime after, a motorcycle cop slaughters a mobster’s pool party using a satchel charge and a submachine gun.
A biographical drama film. The true story of Carl Brashear, the first African American U.S. Navy diver, and his remarkable journey to overcome racial discrimination and physical challenges to achieve his dreams.
Charlie O’Brien, Circus Vargas’ owner, encounters an elderly man named Jacob Jankowski, who is separated from his nursing home group. The two strike up a conversation and Jacob reveals he had a career in the circus business and was present during one of the most infamous circus disasters of all time, equal in seriousness to the 1944 Hartford circus fire and the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus wreck.
A young boy named Billy Hopkins gets disciplined by his father Stan for reading a horror comic titled Creepshow. After swiping the comic from Billy and throwing it in the garbage, Stan reminds his wife that he has to be hard on Billy because he does not want their son to read it, calling it horror crap.
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of scientists stages a phony Mars landing. Willingly participating in the deception are a trio of well-meaning astronauts, who become liabilities when their space capsule is reported lost on re-entry. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth.
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.
Candy Morrison, feeling unfulfilled in her role as a spouse and parent in a small community, craves stimulation and discovers it through a romantic liaison with her husband’s intimate acquaintance, Stan Blankenship. However, their intense affair abruptly ends after only a brief period. Shockingly, several weeks later, Stan’s spouse is discovered viciously slain by an ax, marking the town’s first occurrence of such a brutal killing. Astonishingly, Candy becomes the primary suspect in the investigation.