All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Roddy Mcdowall, ranked

Astronauts Taylor, Landon, and Dodge awaken from deep hibernation after a light-speed voyage. After traveling through desolate wasteland, they come upon eerie scarecrow-like figures. Two chimpanzees, animal psychologist Zira and surgeon Galen, save Taylor’s life, though his throat injury renders him temporarily mute.

A young Huw, the youngest child of Gwilym Morgan, walks home with his father to meet his mother, Beth. Huw’s childhood is idyllic, the town, not yet overrun with mining spoil, is beautiful, and the household is warm and loving, the miners sing as they walk home (in this case Bread of Heaven in Welsh). Afterwards the spending money is given out.

Teenage witches predict that Macbeth, a devoted goon for his crime master Duncan, would one day hold tremendous power. He conspires with his wife to assassinate Duncan because of their prophecy, and he assumes control of the gang. The more murders and other acts of violence he commits, the more his remaining foes will come together to overthrow him.

Television series about a group of astronauts who travel in time and become marooned on a planet. Unbeknownst to them, they are actually on future Earth. The astronauts encounter an advanced civilization run by apes, but supported by enslaved human workers.

The SS Poseidon, an ocean liner slated for retirement, travels to Athens. Despite safety concerns from the captain, the new owner’s representative insists he go full speed to save money, preventing Poseidon from taking on ballast. A tidal wave hits her, flipping her over so that all the internal rooms are upside down. A priest takes a mixed band of survivors on a journey through the bowels of the ship in an attempt to survive.

Charley Brewster is a 17-year-old fan of both traditional horror films and a horror TV series entitled Fright Night, hosted by former movie vampire hunter Peter Vincent. One evening, Charley discovers that his new next-door neighbor Jerry Dandrige is a vampire responsible for the disappearances of several victims. Charley tells his mother and asks his friends for help. In desperation, he contacts the authorities.

During the Blitz, three orphaned children named Charlie, Carrie, and Paul Rawlins are evacuated from London to Pepperinge Eye, where they are placed in the reluctant care of Miss Eglantine Price, who agrees to the arrangement temporarily. He gives the book to Miss Price, who is distraught to discover the final spell, Substitutiary Locomotion, is missing.

During the Blitz, three orphaned children named Charlie, Carrie, and Paul Rawlins are evacuated from London to Pepperinge Eye, where they are placed in the reluctant care of Miss Eglantine Price, who agrees to the arrangement temporarily. He gives the book to Miss Price, who is distraught to discover the final spell, Substitutiary Locomotion, is missing.

After the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC, Julius Caesar goes to Egypt, under the pretext of being named the executor of the will of the young Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII and his sister Cleopatra’s father. Caesar, in effective control of the kingdom, sentences Pothinus to death for arranging an assassination attempt on Cleopatra, and banishes Ptolemy to the eastern desert, where he and his outnumbered army would face certain death against Mithridates.

The physicist Dr. Lionel Barrett is enlisted by eccentric millionaire Mr. Deutsch to make an investigation into survival after death in the one place where it has yet to be refuted. This is Belasco House, the Mount Everest of haunted houses, originally owned by the notorious Roaring Giant Emeric Belasco, a six-foot-five perverted millionaire and supposed murderer, who disappeared soon after a massacre at his home.

David Spaulding is the most feared and efficient Allied agent in wartime Europe. Expert, deadly and professional, he is also high on the Gestapo’s ‘most wanted’ list. Now Spaulding has been selected by the Allied Command to transact an undercover deal in Argentina involving top secret Nazi scientific plans. The dealer is Erich Rhinemann, an exiled German Jew who is awaiting the end of the war with his millions in an impenetrable retreat near Buenos Aires.

At Bilbo Baggins’s 129th birthday party in Rivendell, his nephew Frodo tells the story of the quest to destroy the One Ring and defeat the Dark Lord Sauron. In Mordor, Frodo’s friend and companion Samwise Gamgee bears the Ring in Frodo’s absence as he ventures to rescue Frodo from the Orc fortress of Cirith Ungol. During his journey, Sam is tempted to claim the Ring for himself.