Nick AdamsFilmography

Fever Heat

Actors: Nick Adams, Jeannine Riley, Norman Alden, Vaughan Taylor, Daxson Thomas

Synopsis: Ace Jones (Nick Adams) is a ex-stockcar racer who finds himself in need of repairs on his truck. The garage is owned by a young widow Sandy (Jeannine Riley), whose husband was killed in a racing accident at the local track. He gets a job as a mechanic helping the veteran wrench-man Toad (Vaughn Taylor Read More

Mission Mars

Actors: Darren McGavin, Nick Adams, George de Vries, Heather Hewitt, Michael de Beausset

Synopsis: This routine science-fiction saga concerns the crew of a rocket ship slated to travel to the red planet Mars. Mike (Darren McGavin) is the chief pilot who is assisted by the navigator Nick (Nick Adams). Using several scenes containing stock footage of McDonnell Air Force Base and Cape Kennedy, the Read More

Mosby's Marauders

Synopsis: Mosby's Marauders, a Disney production released theatrically in Europe, began life as a three-part offering on the TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. Jack Ging plays Lieutenant (later Major) Mosby, a Confederate spy who elusiveness earned him the nickname "The Gray Ghost." While Read More

Combat!: The Masquers

Synopsis: Kirby (Jack Hogan) is accosted by two American GIs, Roberts (Nick Adams) and Driskoll (Roger Perry)--one of whom takes a shot at him. All three men are subsequently taken prisoner by British corporal Tommy Behan (Gavin MacLeod), who is convinced that they are German infiltrators. To be sure, there Read More

Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title

Actors: Morey Amsterdam, Richard Deacon, Tim Herbert

Synopsis: Unfortunately, the comedy in this film is just about as crummy as its title. On the bright side, it does feature a number of veterans from popular TV sitcoms. It is set in a run-down diner where a bumbling short-order cook and a klutzy waitress work. They are so terrible at their jobs that they Read More

Young Dillinger

Actors: Nick Adams, Robert Conrad, John Ashley, Dan Terranova, Victor Buono

Synopsis: This exploitation crime drama offers a fictionalized account of John Dillinger just before he became known as one of the most ruthless mobsters of the 1930s. The tale begins as Dillinger and his girlfriend try to rob her daddy's safe and get caught red-handed. Dillinger takes the fall and goes to Read More

Die, Monster, Die!

Actors: Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson, Suzanne Farmer, Terence de Marney

Synopsis: Also known as Monster of Terror, this British-made horror opus is very loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Colour Out of Space". The story begins with an American scientist (Nick Adams) paying a visit to the remote estate of his fiancee's family (located in Lovecraft's fictional Arkham Read More

Godzilla vs. Monster Zero

Actors: Nick Adams

Synopsis: Toho's bid to merge the Godzilla series with their popular alien-invasion films resulted in this entertainingly goofy entry. The plot involves the discovery of the mysterious Planet X in our solar system, leading to a joint U.S./Japanese space exploratory mission. The explorers bump into some Read More

The Outer Limits: Fun & Games

Synopsis: In Volume 27 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, two Earthlings square off against a pair of aliens, with the continued survival of their individual planets promised to the winner. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Outer Limits: Controlled Experiment

Synopsis: In Volume 16 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, the human phenomena of "murder" is investigated by a pair of curious Martians. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Turn Back the Clock

Synopsis: The Seaview rescues a survivor (Nick Adams) from an Antarctic expedition who seems to be suffering tropical exposure, and claims to have seen live dinosaurs. Nelson (Richard Basehart) and Crane (David Hedison) find a prehistoric veldt, filled with creatures presumed to have been extinct for Read More

The Young Lovers

Actors: Peter Fonda, Sharon Hugueny, Nick Adams, Deborah Walley, Beatrice Straight, Malachi Throne

Synopsis: Producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. took a stab at directing with this '60s-era melodrama about college students dealing with the realities of love, sex, and war. Peter Fonda and Sharon Hugueny star as Eddie and Pam, the titular young lovers. An art student and teacher's assistant, the two meet in college Read More

Frankenstein Conquers the World

Actors: Nick Adams, Tadao Takashima, Kumi Mizuno

Synopsis: This hilarious monster mess from the makers of the Godzilla series (including director Inoshiro Honda) essentially recruits Mary Shelley's classic creature into the ever-growing ranks of Japanese city-stomping behemoths -- albeit with a less colorful costume. The only nod to the original Read More

Combat!: Bridgehead

Synopsis: Saunders (Vic Morrow) and the squad are assigned to capture a heavily guarded enemy bridge. Threatening to sabotage the mission from the get-go is Pvt. Mick Haler (guest star Nick Adams), an obnoxious wisecracker who'll do anything to stay alive long enough to resume his civilian career as a jazz Read More

Twilight of Honor

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Joey Heatherton, Nick Adams, Claude Rains, Joan Blackman

Synopsis: Former TV leading man Richard Chamberlain plays a young lawyer about to take on an important murder case. He is shepherded through this big break by veteran attorney Claude Rains. The client is the disreputable Nick Adams, who seems determined to sabotage his own case. But a last-minute scrap of Read More

A Girl Named Tamiko

Actors: Laurence Harvey, France Nuyen, Martha Hyer, Gary Merrill, Michael Wilding, Sr.

Synopsis: Certain film historians are perpetually amazed that the doggedly unappetizing Laurence Harvey became a major film star. In Girl Named Tamiko, Harvey is once more the embittered heel, this time playing a Eurasian photographer who pretends to be in love with numerous American ladies. His only true Read More

The Interns

Actors: Michael Callan, Cliff Robertson, James MacArthur, Nick Adams, Suzy Parker

Synopsis: Using a technique that involves the kind of ensemble acting seen in later long-running, large-cast television programs, director David Swift has tried to tie together the stories of five young interns in this routine drama. One of the interns is a woman who is at odds with the chief surgeon (Telly Savalas Read More

The Hook

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Nick Adams, Enrique Magalona, Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis: Only slightly murky around the edges of character delineation, this wartime drama by George Seaton focuses on three American soldiers on board a neutral Finnish vessel during the Korean War. Seasoned veteran Sgt. P.J. Briscoe (Kirk Douglas) has had no more than the normal difficulties when being Read More

Hell Is for Heroes

Actors: Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Nick Adams, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, Mike Kellin, James Coburn

Synopsis: Don Siegel's only war film and unfortunately his only teaming with Steve McQueen, an actor whose rebellious persona jibed well with the director's vision, it puts the star in the familiar role of antihero. His character, Reese, is an embittered G.I. who has just been sent back to join his Read More

Who Killed Julie Greer?

Pillow Talk

Actors: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams

Synopsis: The fabulously successful Pillow Talk was essentially Shop Around the Corner for the 1950s. Playboy composer Rock Hudson and interior-decorator Doris Day are obliged to share a telephone party line. Naturally, their calls overlap at the least opportune times, and just as naturally, this leads to Read More

The FBI Story

Actors: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Larry Pennell, Nick Adams

Synopsis: If Warner Bros.' pageantlike The FBI Story resembles an episode of Jack Webb's Dragnet at times, it's probably because the screenplay was by veteran Dragnet scrivener Richard L. Breen. The film meticulously details the history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, from its formation in 1924 to Read More

Sing, Boy, Sing

Actors: Tommy Sands, Lili Gentle, Edmond O'Brien, John McIntire, Nick Adams

Synopsis: In this musical drama, a popular rock star leads a successful and happy life while his grandfather, a stern, traditional preacherman admonishes the lad for his sinful existence. The young man is filled with guilt and after the old reverend dies, becomes a preacher himself. But try as he might, he Read More

Teacher's Pet

Actors: Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young, Mamie van Doren, Nick Adams

Synopsis: Hard-boiled, self-educated newspaper editor Clark Gable turns down an opportunity to lecture before a night-school journalism class, publicly ridiculing the notion that the art of news writing can be taught. Gable's publisher, sensing a good story, orders the recalcitrant editor to appear at the Read More

No Time for Sergeants

Actors: Andy Griffith, Nick Adams, Myron McCormick, Murray Hamilton, Howard I. Smith

Synopsis: Mac Hyman's hilarious barracks novel No Time for Sergeants was adapted for TV by Ira Levin in 1955, with newcomer Andy Griffith as bumptious Air Force draftee Will Stockdale. This TV version was soon afterward transformed into a Broadway play, and then a movie, again with Griffith in the lead. Read More

Fury at Showdown

Actors: John Derek, John Smith, Carolyn Craig, Nick Adams, Gage Clarke

Synopsis: Fury at Showdown stars John Derek as a gunfighter who hopes to hang up his guns and live the peaceful life of a cattle ranch. Settling down on his new spread with his brother Nick Adams, Derek finds that he can't live down his reputation. When his brother is murdered on the orders of land-grabbing Read More

A Strange Adventure

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a young man with a love of hot cars and fast women gets into real trouble when he finds himself involved with a beautiful bank robber who forces him to help her hijack an armored car. At her insistence they end up hiding out in a remote cabin in the High Sierras. ~ Sandra Read More

The Last Wagon

Actors: Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Susan Kohner, Kenneth Clark, Tommy Rettig, Stephanie Griffin

Synopsis: Richard Widmark once again essays a character who could be either hero or heel in the rugged western The Last Wagon. After cold-bloodedly shooting down the three men responsible for the death of his wife, Widmark is captured, chained up, and thrown into a wagon heading eastward. Soon afterward Read More

Our Miss Brooks

Actors: Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Robert Rockwell, Jane Morgan

Synopsis: Our Miss Brooks had been a radio and TV sitcom hit thanks to the considerable input of star Eve Arden. The film version of Our Miss Brooks was not quite as successful (why pay for something that you can get at home every week for free?), but it admirably captures the spirit of the original audio Read More

I Died a Thousand Times

Actors: Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lee Marvin

Synopsis: I Died a Thousand Times is a scene-by-scene remake of the 1941 crime-drama classic High Sierra. Jack Palance steps into the old Humphrey Bogart role as Roy "Mad Dog" Earle, the ageing bank robber who intends to pull off one last heist before retiring. Sprung from prison by likeable crime boss Big Read More

Mister Roberts

Actors: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon, Betsy Palmer

Synopsis: Henry Fonda returned to films after an eight-year absence in this masterful adaptation of the actor's Broadway hit Mister Roberts. Written and partially directed by Joshua Logan, the film stars Fonda as Lt. Doug Roberts, chief cargo officer of the supply ship "Reluctant." WW2 is in its last few Read More

Rebel Without a Cause

Actors: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Corey Allen, Sal Mineo, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: This landmark juvenile-delinquent drama scrupulously follows the classic theatrical disciplines, telling all within a 24-hour period. Teenager Jimmy Stark (James Dean) can't help but get into trouble, a problem that has forced his appearance-conscious parents (Jim Backus and Ann Doran) to move Read More

Strange Lady in Town

Actors: Greer Garson, Dana Andrews, Cameron Mitchell, Lois Smith, Walter Hampden

Synopsis: Greer Garson's first non-MGM starring vehicle was the stylish western Strange Lady in Town. That lady is Julia (Garson), who arrives in 1880 New Mexico to set up practice as a doctor. The townsfolk are not only resistant to the notion of a lady sawbones, but they become downright hostile when Read More

Picnic

Actors: William Holden, Rosalind Russell, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson

Synopsis: One of the biggest box-office attractions of the 1950s, Picnic was adapted by Daniel Taradash from the Pulitzer Prize-winning William Inge play. William Holden plays Hal Carter, a handsome drifter who ambles into a small Kansas town during the Labor Day celebration to look up old college chum Alan Read More

Somebody Loves Me

Actors: Betty Hutton, Ralph Meeker, Robert Keith, Adele Jergens, Billie Bird

Synopsis: Written and directed by Irving Brecher, best known for his weekly TV series Life of Riley and The People's Choice, Somebody Loves Me is the highly fictionalized life story of vaudeville and Broadway star Blossom Seeley (Betty Hutton) and her husband-partner Benny Fields (Ralph Meeker). Read More