All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by John Frankenheimer, ranked

During the Korean War in 1952, the Soviets and Chinese capture a U.S. Army platoon and take the men to Manchuria in communist China. In the following years, Marco, since promoted to major and assigned to Army Intelligence, suffers from a recurring nightmare.

While serving a life sentence at Alcatraz, Robert Stroud, a convicted murderer, nurses a sick bird that enters his cell back to health, eventually transforming into an internationally recognized expert in ornithology.

Michael Lander is a pilot who flies the Goodyear Blimp over National Football League games to film them for network television. They plan to mount the bomb on the underside of the gondola of the Goodyear blimp which traditionally flies over the Super Bowl football game, and detonate it over the Miami Orange Bowl during Super Bowl X, in order to call attention to the plight of the Palestinians and to punish the US for supporting Israel.

Harry Mitchell is a successful businessman with mechanical aptitude living in the suburbs of Los Angeles whose wife Barbara is running for city council. Harry is confronted by three hooded blackmailers who demand $105,000 per year for a videotape of him and the mistress, Cini, with whom he has been having an affair.

Noel Holcroft’s late father – who was a general in the Wehrmacht and once close to Adolf Hitler – left behind a fortune supposedly to make amends for his wrongdoings. But more than forty years later, Noel finds himself embroiled in a web of conspiracies involving the children of two of his father’s Nazi colleagues, a mysterious organisation supposedly devoted to ensuring the Nazis never again come to power, and a woman who may be Noel’s downfall or his only hope.