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

On Christmas Eve 1945, in Bedford Falls, New York, 38-year-old George Bailey contemplates suicide. An angel is sent from Heaven to help George by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.

On Christmas Eve 1945, in Bedford Falls, New York, 38-year-old George Bailey contemplates suicide. An angel is sent from Heaven to help George by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.

Recuperating from a broken leg, adventuresome professional photographer L. B. Jeff Jefferies is confined to a wheelchair in his apartment in Chelsea, Manhattan. He spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

After a rooftop chase, where a fellow policeman falls to his death, San Francisco detective John “Scottie” Ferguson retires due to fear of heights and vertigo. Gavin Elster, an acquaintance from college, asks Scottie to follow his wife, Madeleine, claiming that her mental state was abnormal and could put her in danger.

Senator Ranse Stoddard and his wife Hallie arrive in Shinbone, a frontier town in an unnamed western state, to attend the funeral of Tom Doniphon. Upon entering the territory as a young attorney, Ranse is beaten and robbed by Liberty Valance and his gang. Tom is the only man who stands up to Valance, stating that force is all Valance understands.

Senator Ranse Stoddard and his wife Hallie arrive in Shinbone, a frontier town in an unnamed western state, to attend the funeral of Tom Doniphon. Upon entering the territory as a young attorney, Ranse is beaten and robbed by Liberty Valance and his gang. Tom is the only man who stands up to Valance, stating that force is all Valance understands.

Alfred Kralik is the top salesman at a leathergoods shop in Budapest owned by the high-strung Mr. Hugo Matuschek. One morning, Kralik reveals to his friend and coworker Pirovitch that he’s been corresponding anonymously with an intelligent and cultured woman whose ad he came across in the newspaper.

Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan, strangle to death their former classmate from Harvard University, David Kentley, in their Manhattan penthouse apartment. they want to prove their superiority by committing the ‘perfect murder’. The guests, who are unaware of what has happened, include the victim’s father, Mr. Kentley, and aunt, Mrs. Atwater.

Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan, strangle to death their former classmate from Harvard University, David Kentley, in their Manhattan penthouse apartment. they want to prove their superiority by committing the ‘perfect murder’. The guests, who are unaware of what has happened, include the victim’s father, Mr. Kentley, and aunt, Mrs. Atwater.

In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, small-town lawyer Paul Biegler, a former district attorney who lost his re-election bid, spends most of his time fishing, playing the piano, and hanging out with his friends. One day, Biegler is contacted by Laura Manion, to defend her husband US Army Lieutenant Frederick Manny Manion, who has been arrested for the murder of innkeeper Bernard Barney Quill.

Tracy Lord is the elder daughter of a wealthy Philadelphia Main Line socialite family. She was married to C.K. Dexter Haven, a yacht designer and member of her social set, but divorced him two years prior, because, according to her father, he does not measure up to the standards she sets for all her friends and family:

A successful banker, Anthony P. Kirby, has just returned from Washington, D.C., where he was effectively granted a government-sanctioned munitions monopoly, which will make him very rich. Kirby instructs his real estate broker, John Blakely, to offer a huge sum for the house, and if that is not accepted, to cause trouble for the family.