Leslie NielsenFilmography

Superhero Movie

Actors: Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, Kevin Hart, Brent Spiner

Synopsis: After spoofing disaster films in Airplane!, police shows in The Naked Gun, and Hollywood horrors in Scary Movie 3 and 4, producer David Zucker sets his satirical sights on the superhero genre with this anarchic comedy lampooning everything from Spider-Man to X-Men and Superman Returns. Shortly Read More

Slap Shot 3: Junior League

Actors: Hunter Elliott, Ryan McDonnell, Greyston Holt, Jeff Carlson, Steve Carlson, David Hanson

Synopsis: The Hanson Brothers are back, and who better to whip a ragtag youth team into shape for the upcoming championships than the most unpredictable trio ever to strap on skates? Time is running short before the big game, but perhaps if the Hanson Brothers can teach their young protégés the true value Read More

Robson Arms: Season 02

Scary Movie 4

Actors: Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Craig Bierko, Simon Rex, Anthony Anderson

Synopsis: Spoof series torch-bearer and Airplane! mastermind David Zucker steps back into the captain's chair for yet another round of cinematic shenanigans in the latest installment of the Scary Movie franchise, this time mocking such frightful blockbusters as Saw, War of the Worlds, The Village, and The Grudge Read More

Game$how Marathon [TV Series]

Actors: Ricki Lake

Synopsis: In response to the American Idol juggernaut on the Fox network, CBS came up with a miniseries titled Game$how Marathon, based on the satirical British weekly Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon. Each hour-long episode lovingly recreated such classic TV games shows as Beat the Clock, The Price Is Right, Let's Make a Deal Read More

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The Nutcracker and the Mouseking

Synopsis: Airplane stars Robert Hays and Leslie Nielsen are reunited in this animated fairytale about a bratty prince who learns a lesson about wishes. After carelessly handling some magical nuts, the prince turns everyone in the kingdom into toys. Now it's up the young prince to stop the nasty Mouseking Read More

Scary Movie 3

Actors: Anna Faris, Anthony Anderson, Leslie Nielsen, Camryn Manheim, Simon Rex

Synopsis: While star Anna Faris returns for the third film in the Scary Movie series, the power behind the camera has shifted from the Wayans brothers to one of the Zucker brothers. The Zucker in question is David Zucker, and he's brought along his partner in movie-parody crime, Leslie Nielsen. This time Read More

Noel Noel

Synopsis: The animated holiday program Noel Noel tells the story of an awkward wealthy man who learns how to show his love for the apple of his eye after learning valuable lessons from a young girl and her pet dog as well as a reindeer. Leslie Nielson provides narration, and singer Ariane Moffatt Read More

Men with Brooms

Actors: Paul Gross

Synopsis: Paul Gross acts as writer, director, and star for this sports comedy about a Canadian curling team. When Chris Cutter (Gross) left his hometown of Long Bay, Ontario, he threw his team's curling stones into the lake and left his bride, Julie (Michelle Nolden), standing at the altar. Ten years Read More

2001: A Space Travesty

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Alexandra Kamp-Groenveld, Verona Feldbusch, Ophélie Winter, Peter Egan, Damien Masson, Ezio Greggio

Synopsis: Originally titled 2000.1: A Space Travesty, this zany send-up of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi classic will never be confused with Noel Coward or Neil Simon. The inescapable Leslie Nielsen (who also co-produced and co-scripted) stars as U.S. Marshall Richard "Dick" Dix, who springs into action Read More

Chilly Dogs

Actors: Skeet Ulrich, Natasha Henstridge, Rik Mayall

Synopsis: Idealistic travel agent Kevin Manley (Skeet Ulrich) quits his job and leaves the subtropical confines of his Southern Californian home when he's notified that he stands to gain an inheritance of 200 acres of Alaskan real estate from his late grandfather. There's a catch: He has to race in the Read More

Santa Who?

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Steven Eckholdt, Robyn Lively

Synopsis: Containing much of the same spirit that permeated Tim Allen's The Santa Clause, Santa Who? tells the story of Zack (Max Morrow), a young boy who helps Santa (Leslie Nielsen) figure out who he is after an attack of amnesia caused by a fall from his sled. Tommy Davidson, Steven Eckholdt, and Robyn Lively Read More

Camouflage

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Lochlyn Munro

Synopsis: A veteran detective and his novice assistant find some very unexpected mysteries in this offbeat comedy. Jack Potter (Leslie Nielsen) is a hard-boiled but absent-minded private detective who thinks it might be a good idea to retire soon. Potter is approached by Marty MacKenzie (Lochlyn Munro), a Read More

Pumper Pups [Animated TV Series]

Pirates: 3-D Show

Actors: Leslie Nielsen

Harvey

Actors: Harry Anderson, Swoosie Kurtz, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Previously adapted twice before, most notably for the Oscar-nominated 1950 film starring James Stewart, Mary Chase's classic stage-play Harvey once again receives the celluloid treatment with this 1998 CBS made-for-TV movie. Night Court's Harry Anderson fills Stewart's shoes, starring as the Read More

Safety Patrol

Actors: Bug Hall, Lainie Kazan, Curtis Armstrong

Synopsis: Curtis Armstrong and Lainie Kazan star in this goofball comedy (directed by Savage Steve Holland) about the new kid at school who wants more than anything to join the Safety Patrol -- never mind the fact he's so inept it's dangerous. Also features guest appearances from Leslie Nielsen and "Weird" Al Yankovic Read More

National Geographic: The Savage Garden

Synopsis: Comedian Leslie Nielsen narrates a truly unique introduction to the world of insects in National Geographic's The Savage Garden. Using state-of-the art cinematography, National Geographic filmmakers capture dramatic confrontational scenes amidst the deceiving tranquility of an average flower Read More

Wrongfully Accused

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Richard Crenna, Kelly LeBrock, Melinda McGraw, Michael York

Synopsis: Pat Proft directed this satire on The Fugitive with a plot parody of the 1993 Harrison Ford movie, which in turn was inspired by the 1963-67 ABC television series with David Janssen. Violinist Ryan Harrison (Leslie Nielsen) romances the wife (Kelly Le Brock) of his benefactor (Michael York), a man Read More

Family Plan

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Judge Reinhold, Emily Procter

Synopsis: In this family-friendly comedy, a band of orphans are taken to a summer camp by their accident-prone guardian Harry (Leslie Nielsen). However, they soon find that they have to fight to keep the place open when greedy land tycoon Jeffrey Shayes (Judge Reinhold) decides that he wants to buy the camp Read More

Mr. Magoo

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Kelly Lynch, Matt Keeslar, Nick Chinlund, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: Action-adventure director Stanley Tong (Supercop, Rumble in the Bronx) did a change of pace by directing this live-action adaptation of UPA's bumbling, near-sighted Mr. Magoo the animated-series character created during the '40s by John Hubley and others for the cartoon short Ragtime Bear (1949). Read More

Leslie Nielsen's Stupid Little Golf Video

Actors: Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen says "What I don't know about golf could fill an entire instructional video," and here he proves it in the ultimate guide for golfers who aren't very good. Learn how to miss shots, offend other golfers, raise hell with a golf cart, alter a score card and generally make your bad game Read More

Spy Hard

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Nicollette Sheridan, Charles Durning, Marcia Gay Harden, Barry Bostwick

Synopsis: The first of several sight gag and slapstick-rich comedies he produced without the team of Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, this lowbrow comedy from executive producer and star Leslie Nielsen suffers by comparison to his work with the "ZAZ" team. Nielsen plays Dick Steele, secret Read More

Out of Bounds: A Race to the End of the Earth

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Actors: Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Some things never change as this Italian comedy which spoofs government corruption, sports, night clubs, and the Mafia, amply proves. It is set in Rome, circa 71 B.C. and features comic actor Leslie Nielsen as a character similar to those in his Naked Gun series. Just as magistrate Antonio Read More

Dracula: Dead and Loving It

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Peter MacNicol, Steven Weber, Amy Yasbeck, Lysette Anthony

Synopsis: Mel Brooks does it again with this send-up of vampire films. That Leslie Nielson plays the great blood-sucking count gives viewers a good idea as to what they are in for. This Dracula takes himself very seriously despite the fact that he's a bit of a klutz with a tendency to slip in the bat guano Read More

Rent-A-Kid

Synopsis: In this light-hearted comedy, an ingenious salesman devises a clever scheme for finding homes for orphans. A pair of yuppies, trying to decide whether or not to become parents, use the plan to test out three rambunctious children in their home. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Due South: All the Queen's Horses

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen makes a return appearance as "legendary" Canadian mountie Sgt. Buck Frobisher, as do Alex Carter and Mark Melymick as well-meaning but bumbling FBI agents Ford and Deeter. Frobisher is among a group of singing mounties on board a train bound for an American concert. These redcoated Read More

Leslie Nielsen: Bad Golf My Way

Actors: Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Actor Leslie Nielsen and his dedicated caddy Donner return in the follow-up video to their first best-selling program designed to help less talented golfers perfect their limited skills in new and clever ways. Golf fans will hear hilarious stroke-saving techniques that self-respecting players Read More

Due South: Manhunt

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Catherine Bruhier, Daniel Kash, Tony Craig

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen guest stars as Sgt. Buck Frobisher, a legendary Canadian mountie who is idolized by our hero Benton Fraser (Paul Gross). Frobisher's daughter Julie (Cali Timmins) solicits Fraser's help when Buck disappears from view, one week shy of retirement. Resurfacing in Chicago, an Read More

The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson, Fred Ward

Synopsis: The further misadventures of bumbling Los Angeles police Lieutenant Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) are chronicled in this third installment in the popular Naked Gun comedy series. This by-the-numbers entry begins with Drebin as a happily retired house-husband called back into action when an evil Read More

Surf Ninjas

Actors: Ernie Reyes, Jr., Rob Schneider, Nicolas Cowan, Leslie Nielsen, Tone-Loc

Synopsis: Also known as Surf Warriors, this film is a low-budget, offbeat comedy aimed at the teen audience. Two young surfer dudes from southern California, Johnny (Ernie Reyes, Jr.) and Adam (Nicolas Cowen), have their lives changed when they discover that they are heirs to the crown of Patu San, an Read More

Leslie Nielsen: Bad Golf Made Easier

Actors: Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Although his earliest acting roles were more serious, including the work he did on TV's Peyton Place, Leslie Nielsen has worked hard in recent years to establish his comedic acting by appearing in such films as The Naked Gun and Airplane!. The Canadian-born actor appears in this lighthearted video Read More

The Unknown Marx Brothers

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen narrates this look into the private lives of Groucho, Chico, and Harpo Marx, which features interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, rare outtakes, and excerpts from unfinished TV projects, as well as solo work from the three brothers. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

The Blue Frontier: Underseas Legacy

The Blue Frontier: To Save a Whale

The Blue Frontier: Aquaspace Adventure

The Blue Frontier: Nature's Playground

The Blue Frontier: King of the Sea

The Blue Frontier: Gigi's Legacy

Digger

Actors: Adam Hann-Byrd, Joshua Jackson, Timothy Bottoms, Barbara Williams, Olympia Dukakis, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: This oddly unsettling PG-rated film stars Adam Hand-Byrd as Digger, a 12-year-old whose parents are going through serious domestic problems. To keep him out of the line of fire, Digger is sent to live with his crusty grandmother Olympia Dukakis in the Pacific Northwest. He has a great deal of Read More

All I Want for Christmas

Actors: Harley Jane Kozak, Jamey Sheridan, Ethan Randall, Thora Birch, Lauren Bacall

Synopsis: The leading lady of the Christmas tale knows just what she wants for Christmas and she lets Macy's Santa know, too. She wants nothing more than the reuniting of her recently divorced parents. Bordering on being a Miracle on 34th Street re-make, this film follows much the same theme, but the kids Read More

The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson, Robert Goulet

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen returns as the intrepid (and accident-prone) Lt. Frank Drebin in Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, "un film de David Zucker." This second feature film from the "Police Squad!" series finds Drebin as a guest at a White House dinner, receiving an award for shooting his 1,000th drug Read More

Chance of a Lifetime

Synopsis: In this romance, a widowed businesswoman, believing she has an incurable disease begins a series of romantic encounters only to discover that she has been misdiagnosed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Threshold: The Blue Angels Experience

Synopsis: This action video shows a close up view of the Blue Angels flying team in the sky. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Repossessed

Actors: Linda Blair, Leslie Nielsen, Anthony Starke, Ned Beatty, Jesse Ventura, Lana Schawb

Synopsis: This is almost a follow-up to its relative The Exorcist, since it stars Linda Blair, also the leading lady in the '70s head-spinner tale. In Repossessed, a grown-up Blair plays a housewife who becomes possessed by the Devil while watching TV. Leslie Nielsen plays Father Mayii, who gets called to Read More

The Blue Frontier: Shark, Shark, Shark

The Blue Frontier: Antarctic Adventure

The Blue Frontier: Clown or Criminal

The Blue Frontier: Sea of Many Moods

The Blue Frontier: Tails From the Nursery

The Blue Frontier: Vanishing Mermaids

The Blue Frontier: The Rescuers

Saturday Night Live: Leslie Nielsen

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Cowboy Junkies

Synopsis: This 1989 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Leslie Nielsen and features musical guest Cowboy Junkies. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

The Naked Gun

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban, O.J. Simpson

Synopsis: We know we're in a 1988 film when we're invited to laugh at O.J. Simpson in an opening slapstick sequence. We can also pinpoint the year of production when hard-nosed cop Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), during a scuffle with the world's leading dictators, wipes the wine-colored birthmark off the Read More

Dangerous Curves

Actors: Tate Donovan, Danielle von Zerneck, Grant Heslov, Valeri Breiman, Robert Stack

Synopsis: This direct to video, youth-oriented comedy is about Chuck (Tate Donovan) and Wally (Grant Heslov), friends in their senior year at college. Graduation is fast approaching. A wealthy industrialist (Robert Stack) offfers them jobs after graduation if they'll do him a favor and deliver a car to the Read More

Best of Sid and Marty Krofft's D.C. Follies, Vol. 3

Nuts

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton, Karl Malden, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: High-priced hooker Barbra Streisand has been arrested for the murder of one of her clients. The attorney engaged by Streisand's parents hope to cop an insanity plea so that she can avoid a trial and manslaughter conviction. But she refuses this, citing a proviso in New York law that may result in Read More

Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery

Actors: Tom Bosley, Tracy Nelson

Synopsis: This TV pilot film was based on the "Father Dowling" character created (in the tradition of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown) by Ralph McInery. Tom Bosley plays the good Father, who whiles away his off-hours by reading mystery novels. When a young millionaire entrepreneur turns up dead, the official Read More

Striker's Mountain

Synopsis: A resort owner struggles to turn heliskiing into a hot new sport. Along the way he encounters many obstacles that include convincing a millionaire to sponsor him and turmoil within his own family. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Nightstick

Actors: Bruce Fairbairn, Kerrie Keane, Robert Vaughn, John Vernon, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: A maverick Big Apple cop sets off on a deadly pursuit of his two murderous brothers after they bomb a series of banks. He must hurry, for they are threatening to explode more banks if they aren't paid a fortune in ransom. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Square Dance

Synopsis: In this farce from director Rex Bromfield, septagenerian twins Martin (Eric Christmas) and Art (Ted Stidder) come to the rescue when their 103-year-old billionaire father (Joe Austin) is abducted by a roller-derby queen (Valri Bromfield) who is after his fortune. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Soul Man

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Arye Gross, Rae Dawn Chong, James Earl Jones, Melora Hardin, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: An ambitious-but -spoiled rich white kid wins a scholarship to Harvard Law School by pretending to be African-American in this broadly-played comedy. After his father cuts him off financially, Mark Watson (C. Thomas Howell) wins a full tuition scholarship to Harvard by claiming to be Read More

The Patriot

Actors: Gregg Henry, Simone Griffeth, Michael J. Pollard, Jeff Conaway, Stack Pierce

Synopsis: This action film centers around the theft of a nuclear warhead from the U.S. Navy. Lt. Matt Ryder (Gregg Henry) is called out of his dishonorably discharged status and is requested to go find the missing nuke. It appears that the warhead has been stashed somewhere offshore, but it is never clear Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Dead Man's Gold

Synopsis: This episode reunites Jessica (Angela Lansbury) with her former sweetheart David Everett (Leslie Nielsen), a man of great charm--and a great capacity for causing trouble. This time, Everett has spearheaded a search for buried treasure off the coast of Cabot Cove. When one of the divers is Read More

Murder, She Wrote: My Johnny Lies Over the Ocean

Synopsis: Pamela Crane (Belinda Montgomery), the recenty widowed niece of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), goes on a relaxing ocean cruise in hopes of overcoming her husband's sudden death. This, however, proves impossible, as Pamela is systematically terrorized by the appearance of several personal Read More

Blade in Hong Kong

Actors: Terry Lester, Keye Luke, Jean-Marie Hon, Ken Fagan

Synopsis: Terry Lester stars as Joe Blade in this unclaimed TV pilot film. An American, Blade works in Hong Kong, the home of his adoptive father Keye Luke. When Luke is killed and a wealthy man is kidnapped, Blade springs into action (Maybe he's a switch-Blade. Forget we said that.) Ellen Regan, Leslie Nielsen Read More

Reckless Disregard

Actors: Tess Harper, Leslie Nielsen, Ronny Cox, Henry Ramer

Synopsis: Made for cable, Reckless Disregard was clearly inspired by the 1983 court trial involving Dan Rather of 60 Minutes and Dr. Carl Galloway, who felt he was wrongly linked to a pill-dispensing clinic. Leslie Nielsen stars as arrogant TV reporter Bob Franklin, who as part of a lengthy investigative Read More

Foxfire Light

Synopsis: The never-smiling Tippi Hedrin plays an ice-queen matron in Foxfire Light. Her daughter (Lara Parker) falls in love while on an Ozark vacation. It's Romeo and Juliet in the hinterlands, as both families oppose the romance. Leslie Nielsen and Barry Van Dyke, generally seen in funnier surroundings Read More

Cave-In!

Wrong Is Right

Actors: Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross, G.D. Spradlin, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Based on Charles McCarry's 1979 novel The Better Angels, Wrong is Right is set in a near future in which violence has become something of a national sport and television news has fallen to tabloid depths (a significantly bigger stretch in 1982, when the film was released.) Star Sean Connery plays Read More

More! Police Squad

Synopsis: The seminal early-'80s cop spoof is reprised here, with three classic episodes: "Revenge and Remorse," "The Butler Did It" and "Testimony of Evil." ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Creepshow

Actors: Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, Carrie Nye

Synopsis: Two of the most venerable names in the horror field, author Stephen King and director George A. Romero, present this anthology of original twisted tales inspired by the E.C. horror comics of the 50's and 60's (themselves a more direct basis for the popular Tales from the Crypt TV series). The five Read More

Ark on the Move

Crew: Producer

The Creature Wasn't Nice

Actors: Cindy Williams, Bruce Kimmel, Leslie Nielsen, Gerritt Graham, Patrick Macnee

Synopsis: This painfully dull Alien parody pits an inept spaceship crew against a mutating, one-eyed walking manure pile that grows out of an organic lump they obtained on a remote planet. When the token mad scientist (Patrick Macnee, whose hammy performance provides one of the film's few real laughs) Read More

OHMS

Synopsis: In this ecologically aware drama, local farmers rally together to stop an avaricious power company from running million-volt lines across their lands. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Night the Bridge Fell Down

Synopsis: In this disaster movie, eight people stranded on a bridge find their lives jeopardized after a collision has caused the unstable structure to collapse. One of the eight is a bank robber on the lam. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Prom Night

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Stevens, Eddie Benton, Antoinette Bower

Synopsis: This low-budget, tongue-in-cheek horror film of the slasher genre -- which had recently been popularized by Halloween (1978) -- stars that film's lead, Jamie Lee Curtis, as Kim Hammond, a prom queen who becomes a scream queen. Six years ago, a little girl was taunted by four classmates and fell to Read More

Airplane!

Actors: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack

Synopsis: This spoof of the Airport series of disaster movies relies on ridiculous sight gags, groan-inducing dialogue, and deadpan acting -- a comedy style that would be imitated for the next 20 years. Airplane! pulls out all the clichés as alcoholic pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays), who's developed a fear Read More

Riel

Actors: Christopher Plummer, William Shatner, Arthur Hill

Synopsis: This biographical tale is about Louis Riel, a Canadian of Indian descendants who employs his metaphysical powers to help the Metis Indians in their struggle for independence. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Institute for Revenge

Actors: John Hillerman

Synopsis: Big-time movie director Kenneth Annakin called the shots in this TV pilot film. "Institute for Revenge" is the nickname for a computer known as IFR 7000 (voice by John Hillerman). The computer is employed by a large foundation dedicated to righting wrongs, albeit nonviolently. Sam Groom, Lauren Hutton Read More

Cave-In!

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, James Olson, Julie Sommars

Synopsis: You'd think that Irwin Allen had exhausted the "disaster" genre by 1979. Think again: 1979 was the year that Allen put together the made-for-TV movie Cave-In. Once again, a diverse group is trapped in a perilous situation; this time they're caught in an underground cave-in in an anonymous national Read More

Backstairs at the White House

Actors: Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling memoirs of Lillian Rogers Parks, the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House traces over five decades of American political history as witnessed from the vantage point of the servants' quarters. Played by Tania Johnson as a teenager and by Leslie Uggams as an adult, Lillian Rogers Parks Read More

City on Fire

Actors: Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen, James Franciscus

Synopsis: City on Fire, a disaster thriller filmed in Canada with dialogue in both French and English, tells the story of an oil-refinery explosion in a small town. Dr. Frank Whitman (Barry Newman) and his co-workers, including Nurse Harper (Shelley Winters) and Dr. Matwick (Donald Pilon), fight bravely to Read More

Little Mo

Synopsis: This made-for-TV biopic covers the life of teenaged tennis star Maureen Catherine Connolly (Glynnis O'Connor), better known as "Little Mo." Making a spectacular debut during the 1951 US Open, 16-year-old Maureen goes on to become the first female ever to win the Grand Slam of Tennis. But in 1953 Read More

Grand Jury

Actors: Bruce Davison, Meredith Mac Rae, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Grand Jury is a minor theatrical-release melodrama with all the trappings of a made-for-TV movie. Meredith MacRae and Bruce Davison play a wide-eyed young couple who fall for an insurance scam. When they attempt to go to court to recoup their losses, they become involved in a wide-ranging Read More

Project: Kill!

Actors: Vic Diaz, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: This low-budget action film stars Leslie Nielsen as Jonathan Trevor, a spy who defects and is chased by drugged-out hitmen in the Philippines. Trevor ends up hooked on drugs himself and suffers painful withdrawals while attended to by girlfriend Nancy Kwan. Gary Lockwood co-stars with Vic Diaz Read More

Day of the Animals

Actors: Christopher George, Leslie Nielsen, Lynda Day George, Richard Jaeckel, Michael Ansara

Synopsis: An interesting low-budget entry in the post-Jaws animals-run-amok genre (which also owes more than a little to Hitchcock's The Birds), this noisy, violent thriller features the prophetic premise of a widening gap in the ozone layer (thanks to human indulgences in hairspray and other aerosol Read More

Viva Knievel!

Actors: Evel Knievel, Gene Kelly, Marjoe Gortner, Lauren Hutton, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Gordon M. Douglas' kitsch masterpiece starts as Evel Knievel (as himself) sneaks into an orphanage at midnight to distribute Evel Knievel action figures. Miraculously, one little boy casts aside his crutches and begins to walk. The plot kicks in as Evel, heading to a performance in Mexico, finds Read More

The Amsterdam Kill

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Bradford Dillman, Richard Egan, Leslie Nielsen, Keye Luke

Synopsis: Robert Mitchum seems more aloof and detached than usual in the Hong Kong-produced crime caper Amsterdam Kill. Mitchum plays a washed-up police officer, hired by DEA agent Bradford Dillman to help plug up a security leak. Someone is blabbing the name of the department's contacts in Hong Kong, and Read More

Sixth and Main

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Roddy McDowall, Beverly Garland, Leo Penn, Joe Maross

Synopsis: Sixth and Main is the Los Angeles street corner where on any given day you might find itinerant local "character" John Doe (Leslie Nielsen). Elegant authoress Monica (Beverly Garland) discovers that the supposedly derelict Doe has in his possession several manuscripts, all brilliantly written. Read More

Brink's: The Great Robbery

Actors: Darren McGavin, Leslie Nielsen, Carl Betz, Stephen Collins, Jenny O'Hara

Synopsis: In this crime drama, two dogged FBI agents are on the case to investigate one of the U.S.'s most infamous bank robberies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

S.W.A.T.: Pilot

Actors: Georg Stanford Brown, Steve Forrest, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Walden, Jamie Lyn Bauer

Synopsis: This two-hour pilot episode for S.W.A.T. originated as a special installment of the ABC police series The Rookies, explaining the omnipresence of that program's co-star Georg Stanford Brown in his familiar role of Officer Terry Webster. Essentially a peace-loving man and a firm believer in due Read More

Can Ellen Be Saved?

Actors: Louise Fletcher, Leslie Nielsen, John Saxon

Synopsis: This 1974 TV movie was based upon recent news stories about brainwashing techniques practiced by certain religious communes. Ellen (Kathy Cannon) is a confused teenager who falls in with a group of fanatics, who promise that they'll purge the "Devil" from her soul. Her anguished parents (Leslie Nielsen Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: One Last Shot

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen is the guest star in the season-three opener of Streets of San Francisco. Nielsen is cast as Joe Landers, an alcoholic police officer whose drunken bungling has caused the death of his longtime partner. Going to desperate and dangerous lengths to cover up his negligence, Officer Read More

Ironside: The Over-the-Hill Blues

Synopsis: For the third time in six years, Ironside (Raymond Burr) matches wits with gentleman thief Peter Justin--a role played in previous episodes by Sorrell Booke and Dan O'Herlihy, and here essayed by Leslie Nielsen. Determined to get even with Ironside for sending him to prison, Julian concocts an Read More

Kojak: Loser Takes All

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen guest stars as Michael Hagar, the mastermind of a million-dollar diamond heist. What Hagar doesn't realize is that he is being manipulated into adding murder to his list of crimes. Pulling the strings is Hagar's sexy partner Paula (Ja'net DuBois, a duplicitous loan shark who has Read More

... And Millions Will Die

Actors: Richard Basehart

Synopsis: Somewhat reminiscent of the 1965 film The Satan Bug, And Millions Will Die is a thriller based upon the premise of germ warfare. A lunatic plans to extort millions of dollars by threatening to unleash a deadly nerve gas upon the citizens of Hong Kong. He prepares to make good his threat--but then Read More

The F.B.I.: Fool's Gold

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen guest stars as Edward Hudson, a former convict now leading a quiet, respectable life as a farmer. Unfortunately for Hudson, his home is invaded by his former cellmate Parrish (Lou Antonio), who has just stolen a valuable jeweled religious icon. Parrish insists that Hudson help him Read More

The Letters

Actors: John Forsythe, Pamela Franklin, Henry Jones, Ben Murphy, Leslie Nielsen, Jane Powell, Lesley Ann Warren, Ida Lupino

Synopsis: Letters begins with the crash of a U.S. mail plane. One year later, cheerful postman Henry Jones delivers the long-delayed letters. These overdue missives profoundly affect the lives of (a) a man who's deserted his wife; (b) a woman anxious to break up her daughter's romance; and (c) a pianist Read More

The Return of Charlie Chan

Actors: Ross Martin

Synopsis: Return of Charlie Chan was subtitled Happiness is a Warm Clue, which should be warning enough for the discriminating viewer. Ross Martin, the disguise-happy "Artemus Gordon" of The Wild Wild West, here plays Earl Derr Biggers' scrupulously polite Chinese sleuth. Chan is dragged out of retirement Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Before I Die

Synopsis: A decidedly pre-Naked Gun Leslie Neilsen guest stars in this episode as veteran cop John T. Connor. Upon learning that he has a terminal illness, Connor vows to murder the slick racketeer whom he has been unsuccessfully trying to put behind bars for the past eighteen months. Thus are Stone (Karl Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Legion of the Lost

National Geographic: Strange Creatures of the Night

Synopsis: Nature is filled with a vast variety of creatures that are lovable and playful, swift and fierce, strong and brave, and odd and scary. This documentary from the National Geographic Society investigates and examines those creatures of the night, animals that are considered odd or mysterious, that Read More

M*A*S*H: The Ringbanger

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen guest-stars as Colonel Buzz Maxwell, a man whose record of combat casualties is much too high for the tastes of Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and Trapper (Wayne Rogers). Hoping to coerce Maxwell into retirement, the two doctors conspire with Radar (Gary Burghoff) to convince the Colonel that Read More

Al Oeming - Man of the North

Crew: Producer

The Poseidon Adventure

Actors: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: The Poseidon, an ocean liner larger than the Queens Elizabeth and Mary combined, is charting its course on New Year's Eve. Just after midnight, Captain Harrison (Leslie Nielsen) spots the mother of all tidal waves. It is the last thing that Harrison and practically everyone Read More

Snatched

Synopsis: In this made-for-television crime drama a trio of kidnapped wives struggle with their ordeal. Real trouble begins when one of their wealthy husbands refuses to pay the ransom and one of the wives goes into insulin shock. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

They Call It Murder

Synopsis: They Call It Murder was the pilot for a potential TV series based on the "Doug Selby" character created by Perry Mason mentor Earl Stanley Gardner. Inspired by Gardner's 1969 novel The DA Draws a Circle, the film finds district attorney Selby (Jim Hutton) probing the mystery of a corpse in a Read More

The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler

Actors: Jim Healey, Richard Schuyler

Synopsis: Television newsman Harry Walsh (Leslie Nielsen) holds fast to the maxim "seeing is believing" in this political/medical thriller, with science-fiction overtones. Harry saw a well-known U.S. Senator (Bradford Dillman) have a car accident, and took video coverage on the scene. When he arrives at the Read More

Hauser's Memory

Actors: David McCallum, Lilli Palmer, Susan Strasberg

Synopsis: David McCallum stars in Hauser's Memory as scientist Hillel Mondoro. At the behest of the CIA, Mondoro willingly has himself injected with the brain fluid from a dying fellow scientist named Hauser. The purpose of this experiment is to preserve the missile secrets lodged in Hauser's memory banks. Read More

Incident in San Francisco

Synopsis: In this made for TV movie meant to be the pilot for a big city newspaper series, a young reporter takes his job too much to heart when covering the story of a middle-aged businessman accused of murder when he kills a young man who was assaulting an old man. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Night Slaves

Synopsis: James Franciscus and his wife Lee Grant take a vacation in a faraway, fogbound village. Before we get a chance to ask "Why not go to the beach?" Franciscus awakens suddenly in the middle of the night to see several of the villagers compliantly boarding trucks; among these glassy-eyed passengers is Read More

The Aquarians

Actors: Ricardo Montalban

Synopsis: Ricardo Montalban heads a team of undersea explorers dealing in below-the-surface scientific research. At the moment, a mysterious pollutant is killing all the fish off the coast of a fictional East African nation. The cause is a sunken ship that is leaking a deadly nerve gas. Montalban must race Read More

Deadlock

Actors: James McEachin, Leslie Nielsen, Fred Williamson

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Deadlock stars Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Sam Danforth (since this is long before the Police Squad era, Nielsen plays it straight). The white Danforth finds himself at ideological loggerheads with black district attorney Leslie Washburn (Hari Rhodes). Racial tensions are escalated when Read More

How to Commit a Marriage

Actors: Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Jane Wyman, Maureen Arthur, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Frank Benson (Bob Hope) and his wife, Elaine (Jane Wyman), decide to end their marriage after 20 years. Their daughter, Nancy (Joanna Cameron), announces she wishes to marry her college sweetheart, David Poe (Tim Matheson). David's father, Oliver (Jackie Gleason), is against the union and tries to Read More

Four Rode Out

Synopsis: In this western, a Mexican desperado tries to flee his partner, a determined girl friend, and a US Marshal. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Change of Mind

Actors: Raymond St. Jacques, Susan Oliver, Janet MacLachlan, Leslie Nielsen, Donnelly Rhodes

Synopsis: A married couple struggles to adjust when the husband's brain is transplanted into the skull of a black man. David Rowe (Raymond St. Jacques) is the white district attorney who must now live life as a black man. His wife Margaret (Susan Oliver) tries to deal with the transformation of her Read More

Trial Run

Synopsis: Made for television, Trial Run is a slick, cynical tale of blind ambition. James Franciscus plays a young attorney who'll do anything to reach the top. To this end, Franciscus uses not only his employer Leslie Nielsen, but his faithful secretary Diane Baker, who has long sacrificed her own Read More

Dayton's Devils

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Leslie Nielsen, Lainie Kazan, Hans Gudegast, Barry Sadler

Synopsis: Frank Dayton (Leslie Nielsen) leads a group of crooks in a caper to steal one and a half million dollars from an Air Force base. Dayton is the tough-guy military leader who recruits Mike (Rory Calhoun), ex-Nazi Max (Hans Gudegast), sadistic killer Barney Barry (Barry Sadler), and failed French Read More

Shadow Over Elveron

Synopsis: Elveron is one of those corruption-ridden towns just ripe for reforming by idealists like doctor James Franciscus. He has tried to conduct business honestly, while all the powerful folks around him have pulled strings and paid off authorities to keep certain awkward business and personal deals Read More

How to Steal the World

Actors: David McCallum, Leslie Nielsen, Barry Sullivan, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: Released theatrically overseas, How to Steal the World was comprised of two episodes from the American TV series Man from U.N.C.L.E. U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Ilya Kuriakin (David McCallum) investigate when fellow agent Barry Sullivan and European general Leslie Nielsen Read More

The Reluctant Astronaut

Actors: Don Knotts, Leslie Nielsen, Joan Freeman, Jesse White, Jeanette Nolan, Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis: Roy Fleming (Don Knotts) is signed on to the space program at NASA by his father Buck (Arthur O'Connell), a gung-ho former World War I vet who is trying to make something out of his son. Roy becomes a janitor who is afraid of heights and mistaken for an astronaut through a series of comedic Read More

Rosie!

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Sandra Dee, Brian Aherne, Audrey Meadows, James Farentino

Synopsis: Rosie! is directly based upon Ruth Gordon's play A Very Rich Woman, which was itself based upon a French play by Philippe Heriat, but the indirect source for all three versions is Shakespeare's King Lear. Rosalind Russell has the Lear part, here transformed from a powerful king into a rich, madcap Read More

Bonanza: The Unseen Wound

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Leslie Nielsen, Nancy Malone

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen, who had once studied acting under Bonanza star Lorne Greene in his native Canada, is here cast as Sheriff Paul Rowan, an old friend of Ben Cartwright. Driven to madness after twelve hard years on the job, Rowan holes up in a stable, shooting or threatening to shoot anyone who comes Read More

The Boy Who Flew With Condors

Actors: Leslie Nielsen

Companions in Nightmare

Synopsis: Melvyn Douglas made his TV-movie debut in Companions in Nightmare. Douglas plays a famous psychiatrist who conducts a group-therapy session with several high-priced professionals. One of the patients turns out to be a murderer; the truth will come out, and it will be a shocker. Gig Young, Anne Baxter Read More

Code Name: Heraclitus

Actors: Signe Hasso

Synopsis: Code Name: Heraclitus is an expanded version of a TV drama first seen in January of 1967 on Bob Hope Chrysler Theatre. Stanley Baker stars as a British spy who investigating the past of Signe Hasso, the widow of secret agent Kurt Kasner. Hasso is suspected of selling cold war secrets to the Read More

Gunfight in Abilene

Actors: Bobby Darin, Emily Banks, Leslie Nielsen, Donnelly Rhodes, Don Galloway

Synopsis: Never once does Bobby Darin sing "Mack the Knife" or "Splish Splash" in Gunfight in Abilene. Instead, he plays a peaceable western sheriff, determined to stave off an outlaw invasion. The head outlaw is Leslie Nielsen, which makes this film very hard to watch with a straight face these days. The Read More

Counterpoint

Actors: Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Kathryn Hays, Leslie Nielsen, Anton Diffring

Synopsis: The beauty of classical music confronts the ugliness and treachery of war in this unusual drama. Lionel Evans (Charlton Heston) is the director of a well-respected symphony orchestra touring European concert halls in 1944. In the midst of one concert, the city where they are playing is attacked by Read More

The Plainsman

Synopsis: The Plainsman was a Technicolor remake of the 1936 Cecil B. DeMille film, all about the fictional romantic triangle of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill. DeMille had the advantage of a topnotch cast: Gary Cooper as Hickok, Jean Arthur as Calamity (complete with a Wally Westmore Read More

Beau Geste

Actors: Guy Stockwell, Doug McClure, Leslie Nielsen, Telly Savalas, David Mauro

Synopsis: Christopher Wren's classic adventure story is brought to the screen for the third time in this version, which featured several popular television stars of the day. Beau Geste (Guy Stockwell) is forced to take the blame for a crime he didn't commit in order to protect the good name of his family; Read More

Harlow

Actors: Carroll Baker, Martin Balsam, Red Buttons, Michael Connors, Angela Lansbury

Synopsis: Of the two competing Jean Harlow biopics released in 1965, producer Joseph E. Levine's Harlow is the more slickly professional, though neither film is exactly a cinematic landmark. Carroll Baker plays 1930s "platinum blonde" Jean Harlow, who, in keeping with the portrait painted by biographer Read More

The F.B.I.: Pound of Flesh

Synopsis: When the wife of Chaplain Craig Fletcher (Leslie Nielsen) is killed on an Army base, suspicion immediately falls upon PFC Byron Landy (Bruce Dern), a lifelong troublemaker and malcontent who has already beaten one murder rap. The angry locals demand immediate retribution against Landy, proof or no Read More

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Creature

Synopsis: The Seaview takes aboard Captain Adams (Leslie Nielsen), the sole survivor of a missile test that went awry, due to an unexplained ultra-sonic force. He's determined to discover the cause of the disaster, even if it puts the submarine in jeopardy, and he won't let Nelson (Richard Basehart) or Read More

See How They Run

Synopsis: In this adventurous chase film, three orphans head for the US. Unbeknownst to them, they carry with them important information--information the man who killed their father is desperate to retrieve. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dark Intruder

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Gilbert Green, Charles Bolender, Mark Richman, Judi Meredith

Synopsis: In this horror film, set in San Francisco during the Victorian age, a criminologist is often out-guessed by his little valet and a sensitive mandrake plant. He finds himself involved in a hellish situation when a disfigured wizard conjures up a demon to help him transfer his soul in to the perfect Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Magic Shop

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, John Megna, David Opatoshu, Peggy McCay, Paul Hartman

Synopsis: Adapted by John Collier from a story by H.G. Wells, this episode is built around the talents of child actor John Megna, best remembered for his role as the Truman Capote counterpart in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird. Obsessed by magic and magicians, Tony Grainger (Megna) begs his father Read More

The Fugitive: Tiger Left, Tiger Right

Synopsis: Posing as "Frank Jordan", Kimble (David Janssen) hires on as gardener for wealthy Mike Pryor (John Lasell) and his family. Meanwhile, Harold Cheyney (Leslie Nielsen), embittered over a crippling accident suffered while working for Pryor, has sworn revenge on his former partner. Cheyney plans to Read More

Night Train to Paris

Synopsis: A retired spy agrees to help his former boss by helping another agent get some tapes containing defense information to Paris. When his boss is killed, he must stay ahead of the rival agents, eventually learning that the female agent he is helping is one of them. He is able to defeat her and get Read More

The Fugitive: Glass Tightrope

Synopsis: Posing as "Harry Carson", Kimble (David Janssen) witnesses an accidental homicide committed by wealthy Martin Rowland (Leslie Nielsen). When a drifter named Arthur Tibbets (Jay Adler) is arrested for the killing, Kimble worries that if he comes forward to exonerate Tibbets, he is almost certain to Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Ambition

Synopsis: DA Rudolph Cox (Leslie Nielsen) hopes to use the testimony of stoolie Lou Heinz (Bernard Kates) to put mobster Mac Davis (Harold J. Stone) away for keeps. Unfortunately, Heinz's cover is blown and he is marked for death. Even more unfortunately, the most important official in town seems to be in Read More

The Swamp Fox: A Woman's Courage

Synopsis: In the seventh episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) has rescued his sweetheart Mary Videaux (Barbara Eiler) from the clutches of British officer Col. Tarleton. In their efforts to escape the British-held port of Read More

The Swamp Fox: Horses for Greene

Synopsis: In the final episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Revolutionary War patriot Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) and his fellow guerillas have placed themselves under the command of Continental Army officer Captain Richardson (James Seay). Intending to instill some discipline Read More

The Swamp Fox: Tory Vengeance

Synopsis: In the third episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) must pretend to despise his sweetheart, Mary Videaux (Barbara Eiler), lest anyone suspects Mary is one of Francis' most valuable allies against the Redcoats. Despite Read More

The Untouchables: Three Thousand Suspects

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen guest stars as Tom Sebring, a disgruntled prison inmate who has unexpectedly been denied parole. Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) hopes to play on Sebring's resentment to persuade him to act as an "inside man" at Leavenworth, the better to trap the partners of recently murdered mobster Read More

The Swamp Fox: Day of Reckoning

Synopsis: In the fourth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Continental Army guerilla leader Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) feels responsible when his nephew Gabe is killed by the Tories. Letting revenge outweigh his duty to his men, Marion personally sets out to kill Gabe's Read More

The Swamp Fox: A Case of Treason

Synopsis: In the sixth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, 18th century American guerilla leader Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) has again succeeded in thwarting the plans of Redcoat officer Col. Tarleton (John Sutton). Escaping from Marion's men, Tarleton takes refuge in the home Read More

The Swamp Fox: Redcoat Strategy

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, the guerilla forces under the leadership of Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) have succeeded in capturing British officer Col. Townes (Henry Daniell). Unfortunately, Marion's longtime enemy Col. Tarleton (John Sutton) has, at Read More

The Swamp Fox: Brother Against Brother

Synopsis: In the second episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, the Redcoats have retaliated against the raids of Colonel Francis Marion's guerillas by burning down their homes. While Francis (Leslie Nielsen) advises his men to wait before striking back, his own brother Gabriel (Dick Foran Read More

The Swamp Fox: The Birth of the Swamp Fox

Synopsis: One of producer Walt Disney's more blatant efforts to duplicate the success of his early TV miniseries Davy Crockett, the eight-part Swamp Fox featured another flamboyant frontiersman hero who wore coonskin-style headgear and whose adventures were introduced with a catchy, memorable theme song. Read More

The Swamp Fox [TV Series]

Actors: Leslie Nielsen

The Sheepman

Actors: Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLaine, Leslie Nielsen, Mickey Shaughnessy, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: The Sheepman was touted as a comedy by some of MGM's publicity people. It really isn't, but this western does have its lighthearted moments. Glenn Ford stars as a hard-bitten sheep farmer, running up against the opposition of cattle ranchers. Shirley MacLaine is a no-nonsense frontier girl who Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Two Million Dollar Defense

Synopsis: After he accidentally kills a man whom he assumes to be his wife's lover, wealthy Lloyd Ashley (Leslie Nielsen) engages his lawyer -- and best friend -- Mark Robeson (Barry Sullivan) to defend him in court. To bind the bargain, Ashley offers Robeson half of his four-million-dollar fortune. Only Read More

Tammy and the Bachelor

Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Walter Brennan, Leslie Nielsen, Mala Powers, Fay Wray, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: Debbie Reynolds stars as Tammy in this romantic comedy of a country girl living in the South who cares for pilot Peter Brent (Leslie Neilsen) after his plane crashes near her home. At the beckoning of mutual admiration, Peter soon invites her to his plantation where she charms the fancy-shmancy Read More

Hot Summer Night

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Colleen Miller, Edward Andrews, Jay C. Flippen, James Best

Synopsis: Hot Summer Night is an out-of-the-ordinary crime yarn from the TV/radio production team of Morton Fine and David Friedkin. Unemployed journalist William Joel Pertain (Leslie Nielsen) hopes to reestablish himself by capitalizing on a recent wave of bank robberies. Pertain has a "lead" to the gang's Read More

Forbidden Planet

Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly

Synopsis: MGM's first big-budget science fiction film, Forbidden Planet, combined state-of-the-art special effects with a storyline based on Shakespeare's The Tempest. In the 23rd century, Cmdr. J.J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) guides United Planets cruiser C-57-D on a rescue mission to faraway planet Read More

The Opposite Sex

Actors: June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Jeff Richards, Ann Sheridan, Ann Miller, Leslie Nielsen, Harry James, Dick Shawn, Jim Backus

Synopsis: The Opposite Sex is an opulent musical remake of Clare Booth Luce's The Women (1939). June Allyson stars in the old Norma Shearer role, playing the virtuous wife who loses her husband to scheming Joan Collins (as the Joan Crawford character). At first agreeing to a divorce, June decides to win Read More

Ransom

Actors: Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen, Juano Hernandez, Robert Keith, Alexander Scourby

Synopsis: Viewers familiar with the 1996 Mel Gibson blockbuster Ransom may be disappointed that there are no smirking villains, car chases, or bloody fistfights in the original 1956 version of the same story. Even so, the earlier Ransom! has much to offer on a purely dramatic level. Based on the Richard Maibaum Read More

The Vagabond King

Actors: Vincent Price, Kathryn Grayson, Oreste, Rita Moreno, Cedric Hardwicke, Walter Hampden

Synopsis: The Rudolf Friml operetta The Vagabond King was first filmed in 1930, with Dennis King in the lead. On both sides of this adaptation, audiences were treated to non-singing versions of the story, bearing titles like The Beloved Rogue and If I Were King. In all instances, the plot remained the same Read More

The Battle of Gettysburg

Studio One: The Spectre of Alexander Wolff