All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Sam Wood, ranked

In 1966, a wealthy industrialist has moved from Chicago to Sparta, Mississippi, to build a factory there. Late one night, police officer Sam Wood discovers Colbert’s murdered body lying in the street. A doctor estimates that Colbert had been dead for a few hours. At the train station, Wood finds a black man, Virgil Tibbs, and arrests him.

Army generals grapple with the dilemma of whether to prioritize the bombing of German factories manufacturing new jet fighters, despite the anticipated significant casualties that the mission would incur.

Theodora, a young and penniless aristocrat, marries a much older man, self-made millionaire grocer Josiah Brown, so that her father and spinster sisters can live comfortably. The couple honeymoon in the Alps. On a climbing excursion Theodora slips and dangles precariously by her safety line over a cliff. She is rescued by Hector Bracondale, a young playboy and Theodora falls in love with him. She must choose between love and duty, and then Josiah and Hector must make choices of their own.