Jarrett (film)

Jarrett (1973) is an NBC TV film, directed by Barry Shear and starring Glenn Ford as an investigator who specializes in art cases.

[3] Sam Jarrett, a middleweight boxing champion turned globe-trotting private detective, specializes in art crimes.

He is tasked with tracking down the missing Book of Adam and Eve, a collection of rare biblical papyrus scrolls stolen from a museum.

A traveling preacher, Vocal Simpson, claims to own the scrolls and has built a religious practice about the salacious behavior within them.

However, Jarrett and Larsen realize that Bastrop had arranged that Simpson and Luluwa would receive the scrolls, and that the test was a hoax.