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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Sidney Lumet, ranked
In the overheated jury room of the New York County Courthouse, a jury prepares to deliberate the case of an 18-year-old impoverished youth accused of stabbing his father to death. The judge instructs them that if there is any reasonable doubt, the jurors are to return a verdict of not guilty; if found guilty, the defendant will receive a death sentence. The verdict must be unanimous.
On August 22, 1972, first-time crook Sonny Wortzik, his friend Salvatore Sal Naturile, and Stevie attempt to rob the First Brooklyn Savings Bank. The plan immediately goes awry when Stevie loses his nerve and flees, and Sonny discovers they have arrived after the daily cash pickup, finding only $1,100 in cash.
During a VIP visit to the headquarters of the Strategic Air Command, at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, the Air Force’s early warning radar indicates that an unidentified aircraft has intruded into American airspace. Shortly after, the “intruder” is identified as an off-course civilian airliner and the alert is cancelled, but a computer error causes one American bomber group to receive apparently valid orders for a nuclear attack on Moscow.
In 1971, NYPD Officer Frank Serpico is rushed to the hospital, having been shot in the face. Years earlier, Frank graduates from the police academy and becomes frustrated with his fellow officers’ laxness. Frank breaks protocol to arrest the suspect himself, but is coerced not to take credit.
Once-promising attorney Frank Galvin, framed for jury tampering years ago, was fired from his elite Boston firm and is now an alcoholic ambulance chaser whose practice is on the verge of collapse. As a favor, his friend and former teacher Mickey sends him a medical malpractice case in which it is all but assured that the defense will settle for a large amount.
In December 1935, Hercule Poirot is travelling aboard the Orient Express, encountering his friend Signor Bianchi, a director of the company which owns the line. During the trip, American businessman Samuel Ratchett is found stabbed to death in his cabin. Bianchi entreats Poirot to solve the case.
In 1960s London, Charles Dobbs is a staid MI5 operative investigating Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan, a former Communist who apparently commits suicide. Dobbs discovers this to be a lie, and as a result Dobbs suspects that Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi extermination camp, might have some clues regarding Fennan’s death.
Daniel Isaacson endeavors to uncover the genuine involvement of his parents, Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who faced execution on charges of espionage in the 1950s.
Jessie McMullen is a Scottish American widower who emigrated with his Sicilian wife to New York in 1946. A lovable rogue, incorrigible womaniser and tough guy, Jessie is proud of his criminal past and lifestyle. He raised son Vito to follow in his footsteps, but Vito went straight at 21 when his son Adam was born. Vito now runs a thriving wholesale Twelfth Avenue meat-packing warehouse and has left his criminal life behind.
Encompassing a span of almost 40 years, from 1925 to 1964, the narrative unfolds between two Texas farm boys: the earnest and upright Gid and the easygoing Johnny. They engage in a continuous rivalry for the affections of Molly Taylor, a beautiful and strong-willed woman who consistently rejects the idea of marrying either of them.