All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Wilfrid Hyde-white, ranked

The American Western writer Holly Martins arrives in post–Second World War Vienna (which has been divided between the Allies: the Americans, British, French, and Soviets) seeking his childhood friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job. Martins is told that Lime was killed by a car while crossing the street.

In London, Professor Henry Higgins, a scholar of phonetics, believes that the accent and tone of one’s voice determines a person’s prospects in society. He agrees to a wager that he can make Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl with a thick, unintelligible accent, presentable in high society.

In late-1800s London, the well-to-do Adelaide, over the objections of her family, marries her drawing teacher, impoverished artist Henry Lambert, and moves into his flat in the run-down street Britannia Mews. Henry soon proves himself to be an alcoholic who is more interested in drinking and pursuing his hobby of making elaborate marionettes than in completing his paintings.