All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Robert Mitchum, ranked

The story continues to follow the Henry family and other central characters introduced in ‘The Winds of War,’ including Victor ‘Pug’ Henry, his wife Rhoda, and their children. America is attacked by Japan and enters World War II. For Victor Henry, an upwardly mobile naval career sets him in command of a cruiser with sights on selection for the Admiralty.

The story follows Pug Henry’s navigation through the circumstances preceding and unfolding during World War II. His posting in Europe exposes him to the emergence of Nazi Germany, the propagation of fascism, and the mounting tensions that ultimately culminate in the war’s eruption. The miniseries portrays the array of personal and professional trials confronted by Pug Henry and his spouse and their three children, all of whom become entangled in the worldwide turmoil.

In West Virginia in the 1930s, Reverend Harry Powell is a self-appointed preacher and misogynistic serial killer who travels along the Ohio River, justifying the women he murdered with his switchblade knife after marrying them for their money as doing God’s work. But with the police about to catch him, Harper makes his children John and Pearl promise to never reveal where the money is hidden after hiding it in Pearl’s doll.

Shot in a docudrama style, the film opens in the days leading up to D-Day, concentrating on events on both sides of the English channel. Also shown is the uncertainty of German commanders regarding whether this is a feint in preparation for Allied crossings at the Strait of Dover, where the senior German staff had always assumed that the invasion would begin.

In Southeast Georgia in 1962, after spending eight years in prison for rape, Max Cady is released. Cady begins to stalk and subtly threaten Bowden’s family. A friend of Bowden, Police Chief Mark Dutton, attempts to intervene on Bowden’s behalf, but he cannot prove Cady guilty of any crime.

Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) is a lawyer living in North Carolina with his wife Leigh (Jessica Lange) and teenage daughter Danielle (Juliette Lewis). Unbeknownst to him, however, his former client is a naturally intelligent and single-minded psychopath; he learned how to read and studied law in prison, and even unsuccessfully appealed his own conviction several times.

Following the destructive Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and a series of setbacks for the United States, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle formulates a bold plan for a daring raid to strike at the core of Japan. A squadron of American planes embarks on a perilous journey across the Pacific Ocean to deliver a deadly payload.

A Philip Marlowe’s case, the death of a client and the hunt for an ex-long-lost convict’s love, take a nasty turn when they start to intertwine, dragging the private eye deeper and deeper into 1940s Los Angeles’ seedy underbelly. It appears that Marlowe might be the next person to pass out as the stakes are heightened and the death toll rises.

IBC Television president Frank Cross is pushing his company to broadcast an extravagant live production of A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve, making the staff work throughout the holiday. Frank’s boss Preston Rhinelander, seeing the stress Frank is under with the production, brings in Brice Cummings to provide assistance, though Brice secretly wants Frank’s job.

A young boy, Tom Tiflin, is given a small pony by his father. Tom asks the stable helper, Billy Buck, to help him raise and train it so that it can be ridden. During a rain storm the pony gets out of the stable and, having been soaked, becomes fevered. Despite Buck’s best efforts to nurse the pony it develops strangles and requires a tracheotomy. Shortly after the procedure, the pony escapes from the farm.

Set in Hollywood during the 1930s, the movie revolves around the life of Monroe Stahr, a talented and influential film producer loosely based on the legendary producer Irving Thalberg. Stahr faces various challenges, including studio politics, love affairs, and the struggles of the Great Depression, all while trying to create successful movies.

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.