All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Mark Rydell, ranked

Late one night, private investigator Philip Marlowe is visited by his close friend Terry Lennox, who asks for a lift from Los Angeles to the California–Mexico border at Tijuana. Marlowe obliges. On returning home, Marlowe is met by two police detectives who accuse Lennox of having murdered his rich wife, Sylvia.

This movie portrays the infamous 1932 kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindberg’s infant son, as well as the controversial investigation, trial, and execution of the accused, Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Throughout the film, the viewer is presented with a disturbing portrayal of a corrupt police force, desperate to solve the case, who resorts to framing an innocent man by creating false evidence, bribing and threatening witnesses, and suppressing evidence that could exonerate him.

John Baggs Jr. is a US Navy sailor who falls in love with Maggie, an attractive woman hustling sailors at a pool table. John will becoming a surrogate father figure for Maggie’s bi-racial 10-year-old son Doug during an extended liberty due to his service records being lost.

Jill Banford and Ellen March have created a comfortable life for themselves on a difficult Canadian farm. However, when the attractive Paul Grenfel enters their secluded world, he causes conflicts between the two friends. But is Paul the main cause of the issues between Jill and Ellen? Or has his arrival only brought to light the underlying, unacknowledged sexual tension that has always existed between the women?