All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring James Garner, ranked

In 1943, having expended enormous resources on recapturing escaped Allied POWs, the German armed forces move the most determined to a new, high-security prisoner-of-war camp supervised by Luftwaffe Colonel von Luger. The prisoners’ escape committee mount an audacious plan to tunnel out of the camp and break out 250 men.

At a modern-day nursing home, an elderly man, Duke, reads a romantic story from his notebook to a fellow patient. He pursues her, and they begin a summer romance. One evening, he takes her to the abandoned Windsor Plantation that he intends to buy and restore for them.

Having attended General Eisenhower’s final briefing on the Normandy landings, U.S. Army Major Jeff Pike is sent to Lisbon on June 1, 1944, to meet an informant to confirm that the Nazis still expect the invasion at the Pas de Calais. He is abducted and transported to Germany.

When his rich grandfather, Howard Red Stevens, dies, Jason does not expect to inherit anything from his multi-billion-dollar estate. He strongly resents his grandfather because his father had died while working for him. There is an inheritance, in fact, but it comes with a condition: Jason must complete 12 separate assignments within a year in order to get it.

When his rich grandfather, Howard Red Stevens, dies, Jason does not expect to inherit anything from his multi-billion-dollar estate. He strongly resents his grandfather because his father had died while working for him. There is an inheritance, in fact, but it comes with a condition: Jason must complete 12 separate assignments within a year in order to get it.

The story is set several years after the events of ‘Lonesome Dove.’ Captain Woodrow F. Call, played by James Garner in this adaptation, is now retired and living in the town of Lonesome Dove. The story follows Call as he is reluctantly drawn back into the life of a Texas Ranger to track down and capture a young, elusive outlaw named Joey Garza.

In the American Old West, gambler Bret Maverick is on his way to a major five-card draw poker tournament being held on the paddle steamer Lauren Belle. Joseph owes $1,000 to Maverick; they swindle that amount from a Russian Archduke with a scheme that “allows” him to hunt and kill an Indian.

A massive tidal wave, triggered by a distant explosion, threatens to drown the island kingdom of Atlantis. In the midst of an evacuation from the capital city, the Queen of Atlantis is caught by a strange, hypnotic blue light and lifted up into the ‘Heart of Atlantis’, a powerful crystal protecting the city.

On November 5, 1975 in Snowflake, Arizona, logger Travis Walton, and his co-workers head to work in the White Mountains. Driving home from work, the loggers come across an unidentified flying object. Curious to learn more, Walton gets out of the truck and is struck by a bright beam of light from the object and is sent flying several feet backwards as if pushed by an unseen force.

Philip Marlowe, a private investigator, struggles to earn five hundred dollars. However, if it’s paid for with a bribe, it might as well only be five cents. When Winslow Wong’s offer of money is rejected, Wong immediately turns the detective’s office into a junkyard.

Sidda Lee Walker, a playwright from New York, is far from her hometown in Louisiana, but the emotional gap between her and her mother Vivi is even wider. The “Ya-Yas,” Vivi’s lifelong friends, orchestrate an unconventional intervention to reunite the estranged mother and daughter in this heartwarming story.

Sidda Lee Walker, a playwright from New York, is far from her hometown in Louisiana, but the emotional gap between her and her mother Vivi is even wider. The “Ya-Yas,” Vivi’s lifelong friends, orchestrate an unconventional intervention to reunite the estranged mother and daughter in this heartwarming story.