All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Oliver Reed, ranked

In AD 180, Hispano-Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius intends to return to his home after he leads the Roman army to victory against the Germanic tribes near Vindobona on the Limes Germanicus. Emperor Marcus Aurelius tells Maximus that his own son, Commodus, is unfit to rule and that he wishes Maximus to succeed him, as regent, to help save Rome from corruption and restore the Roman Republic.

In AD 180, Hispano-Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius intends to return to his home after he leads the Roman army to victory against the Germanic tribes near Vindobona on the Limes Germanicus. Emperor Marcus Aurelius tells Maximus that his own son, Commodus, is unfit to rule and that he wishes Maximus to succeed him, as regent, to help save Rome from corruption and restore the Roman Republic.

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist. Oliver is a nine-year-old orphan who’s sold to an undertaker by workhouse officials for objecting to his scant rations; he soon manages to escape from bondage and make his way to London. There he’s befriended by the precocious Artful Dodger, a pickpocket who belongs to a gang of youthful thieves run by Fagin, a veteran cutpurse.

Having learned swordsmanship from his father, the young country bumpkin d’Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king’s musketeer. D’Artagnan sides with the musketeers in the ensuing street fight and becomes their ally in opposition to the Cardinal, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king, Louis XIII.

In an unnamed war-torn European city in the Age of Reason, amid explosions and gunfire from a large Ottoman army outside the city gates, a fanciful touring stage production of Baron Munchausen’s life and adventures is taking place. In a theatre box, the mayor reinforces the city’s commitment to reason by ordering the execution of a soldier who had just accomplished a near-superhuman feat of bravery.

The miniseries picks up several years after the events of the original ‘Lonesome Dove.’ Captain Woodrow F. Call is now a bounty hunter in pursuit of a young Mexican bandit named Joey Garza. The story follows Call’s journey as he recruits a diverse group of individuals to join him in this pursuit, and they embark on a dangerous trek across the American West.

During the Anglo-French War (1627–1629), Cardinal Richelieu continues the machinations he began in The Three Musketeers by ordering the Count de Rochefort to kidnap Constance Bonancieux, dressmaker to the Queen Anne of France. The evil Milady de Winter, who wants revenge on junior musketeer d’Artagnan, seduces him to keep him occupied.

In 1970s England, private detective Philip Marlowe is asked to the stately home of General Sternwood, who hires Marlowe to learn who is blackmailing him. While at the mansion, he meets the general’s spoiled and inquisitive daughter Charlotte and wild younger daughter Camilla.

Woody Wilkins, a creative writer of comic books, assumes the role of a clumsy spy and embarks on a globe-trotting adventure as Condorman, the superhero he conceived. The humor and difficulties arise when Woody develops feelings for a Russian agent named Natalia and endeavors to assist her in defecting to the United States. Unfortunately, Krokov, Natalia’s ex-lover and a KGB agent, is determined not to let her go and mobilizes his agents to impede Condorman and foil Natalia’s getaway.

Woody Wilkins, a creative writer of comic books, assumes the role of a clumsy spy and embarks on a globe-trotting adventure as Condorman, the superhero he conceived. The humor and difficulties arise when Woody develops feelings for a Russian agent named Natalia and endeavors to assist her in defecting to the United States. Unfortunately, Krokov, Natalia’s ex-lover and a KGB agent, is determined not to let her go and mobilizes his agents to impede Condorman and foil Natalia’s getaway.