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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Scott Frank, ranked
The Queen’s Gambit follows the life of an orphan chess prodigy, Elizabeth Harmon, during her quest to become the world’s greatest chess player while struggling with emotional problems and drug and alcohol dependency. The story begins in the mid-1950s and proceeds into the 1960s.
The series revolves around the renowned detective Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett, who has been leading a peaceful retirement in the small town of Bozuls in the South of France. The year is 1963, the Algerian War has recently concluded, and soon Spade’s tranquility will also come to an end.
In 1991, Detective Matthew Matt Scudder is in a car with his partner, who urges him to get help and expresses his concern that Scudder is not a reliable backup. Kenny tells Scudder that after he delivered the ransom, the kidnappers directed him to a car containing his wife’s dismembered body.