Nick StuartFilmography

This Property Is Condemned

Actors: Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, Kate Reid, Mary Badham

Synopsis: Sydney Pollack's tawdry potboiler, adapted from a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, was rife with production problems, culminating in Williams' failed attempt to have his name removed from the credits. The story is set by a framing device as thirteen-year-old Willie Starr (Mary Badham) sits on Read More

The Longest Day

Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Richard Todd

Synopsis: The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck. Whenever possible, the original locations were utilized, and an all-star international cast impersonates the people involved, from high-ranking officials to ordinary GIs. Each Read More

We Are in the Navy Now

Actors: Kenneth More, Lloyd Nolan, Joan O'Brien, Mischa Auer, Jeremy Lloyd

Synopsis: This was the last film for British director Wendy Toye whose special interests were always comedies and fantasies. In this light farce, the talented Kenneth More is Lt. Commander Bodger, a man with a penchant for honesty in moments when silence is much more diplomatic. Bodger offends the Navy Read More

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

Actors: Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield, Robert Morley, Ronald Squire, David Horne, Henry Hull

Synopsis: Kenneth More portrays a British gunsmith who travels to the American West. After winning a rigged poker game, More is appointed sheriff of Fractured Jaw, a wide-open town where law officers are plugged and planted on a regular basis. He befriends hard-bitten saloon gal Jayne Mansfield, who doesn't Read More

High Hell

Actors: John Derek, Elaine Stewart, Rodney Burke, Patrick Allen, Jerold Wells

Synopsis: Craig Rhodes (John Derek) is the partner of gold miner Frank Davidson (Al Mulock). Frank's wife Lenore (Elaine Stewart) develops a yen for Rhodes, while he insists upon remaining honorable.The situation becomes prickly when a heavy snowfall forces Frank, Lenore and Craig to share close quarters Read More

High Tide at Noon

Actors: William Sylvester, Michael Craig, Flora Robson, Alexander Knox

Synopsis: A rugged, isolated island off the coast of Nova Scotia provides the setting for this drama. Much of the island is owned by one person, the other inhabitants, primarily lobster fishermen, rent from him. One of the lobster men begins romancing the wealthy owner's daughter and marries her. After the Read More

The Night My Number Came Up

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox, Denholm Elliott, Ursula Jeans

Synopsis: The Night My Number Came Up was based on an actual incident in the life of Britain's Sir Victor Goddard. Michael Redgrave stars as an RAF pilot who is tormented by the premonition that his plane will crash. After much trepidation, he agrees to take a routine flight. As Redgrave prepares to take Read More

Joe Macbeth

Actors: Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman, Bonar Colleano, Gregoire Aslan, Sidney James

Synopsis: It took nerve to transpose Shakespeare's Macbeth into a 1930s gangster story using "tough guy" jargon, but Joe Macbeth very nearly pulls the trick off successfully. Paul Douglas plays Joe MacBeth, a successful mobster whose wife (Ruth Roman) has ambitions to be even more successful. Mrs. MacBeth Read More

The Divided Heart

Actors: Cornell Borchers, Yvonne Mitchell, Armin Dahlen, Alexander Knox, Geoffrey Keen

Synopsis: Based on a true story, The Divided Heart is an effective, high-gloss British soap opera. Cornell Borchers stars as Inga, a young German woman who disappears and is presumed killed during WW2. Inga's infant son is placed in an orphanage; years later, the boy is adopted by childless couple Sonja Read More

The Love Lottery

Actors: David Niven, Peggy Cummins, Anne Vernon, Herbert Lom, Charles Victor

Synopsis: David Niven returns to his native England to star in the frothy comedy The Love Lottery. Niven plays a Hollywood movie star who is the "prize" in a lottery dreamed up by his press agent. The lucky lady who "wins" Niven will be able to spend a week in his company. Sensing the silliness of the whole Read More

The French Line

Actors: Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland, Craig Stevens, Arthur Hunnicutt, Mary McCarty, Joyce MacKenzie

Synopsis: Like so many other films that were once considered "lewd" and "scandalous", The French Line seems as harmless as Pollyanna when seen today. Essentially a remake of The Richest Girl in the World, the film stars Jane Russell as Mary Carson, an incredibly wealthy Texas oil heiress. Lucky in Read More

The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd

Killer Ape

Actors: Johnny Weissmuller, Carol Thurston, Max Palmer, Burt Wenland, Nestor Paiva

Synopsis: Killer Ape is one of the most violent entries in Columbia's "Jungle Jim" series. In this outing, Jim (Johnny Weissmuller) finds out that members of the Wazuli tribe are selling animals to white hunters. These animals are in turn used for illegal research in a scheme to create drugs for bacterial Read More

The Lost Planet

Synopsis: In this comical sci-fi adventure, two brave heroes take on a mad scientist and his legion of wicked aliens from the planet Ergo. Thanks to the efforts of the two brave fighters, Earth is saved again. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

King of the Congo [Serial]

Synopsis: In this convoluted adventure serial, a U.S. Air force captain begins searching for some stolen microfilm that contains vital information. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Blackhawk [Serial]

Actors: Kirk Alyn, Carol Forman, John Crawford, Michael Fox, Don C. Harvey

Synopsis: The 15-episode Columbia serial Blackhawk was based on the comic book created by Reed Crandall and Charles Cuidera. The title character is played by Kirk Alyn, previously the leading man in Columbia's Superman serial. Also returning from Superman is Carol Forman, here cast as slinky Soviet spy Read More

Night Beat

Actors: Anne Crawford, Maxwell Reed, Ronald Howard, Hector Ross, Christine Norden

Synopsis: The oft-used title Night Beat was applied to the 1948 British melodrama. After serving as commandoes in WW2, Felix (Maxwell Reed) and Andy (Ronald Howard) follow widely divergent paths in peacetime. Andy joins the London police, while Felix falls in with the Black Market. As a result, their Read More

Gunsmoke

Journey Together

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Richard Attenborough, Hugh Wakefield, Jack Watling, David Tomlinson, Ronald Squire

Synopsis: Filmed in 1945 and released in the US the following year, the Anglo-American Journey Together is a tribute to the Royal Air Force, with several members of the RAF (and the acting profession) in prominent roles. The story follows the progress of two aspiring RAF pilots, cockney David Wilton (Sgt. Richard Attenborough Read More

The Way to the Stars

Actors: John Mills, Michael Redgrave, Douglass Montgomery, Bonar Colleano, Trevor Howard, Rosamund John

Synopsis: Originally released in England as The Way to the Stars, Johnny in the Clouds is the story of how the Battle of Britain affected the lives of combatants and civilians alike. Terence Rattigan's screenplay concentrates on three groups of people: an American pilot and his wife, a doomed British Read More

Time Flies

Synopsis: In this sci-fi comedy, a nutty inventor and his loyal butler use his time machine to travel to Elizabethan times. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Gentle Sex

Actors: Joan Gates, Joan Greenwood, Jean Gillie, Joyce Howard, Rosamund John, Lilli Palmer

Synopsis: Whenever one sees a title like The Gentle Sex, one braces oneself for an ironic switcharound. The supposedly gentle girls of the title--seven in all--are actually determined young British moderns who go into military service during World War II. In true "Army bomber crew" fashion, the film Read More

Mr. Muggs Steps Out

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Billy Benedict

Synopsis: The East Side Kids come face to face with High Society in Mr. Muggs Steps Out. Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey) is hired by wealthy Mrs. Murray (Betty Blythe), who has a penchant for picking up trouble-prone servants. At an engagement party for Mrs. Murray's spoiled Read More

Secret Mission

Actors: Hugh Williams, Carla Lehmann, James Mason, Roland Culver, Michael Wilding, Sr.

Synopsis: In this WW II actioner, two British Intelligence agents and a French agent follow their leader into Nazi-occupied France to see how strong the invaders really are; unfortunately, the only way to get that information is to break into the German headquarters. They do so by pretending to be champagne Read More

Pride of the Bowery

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Donald Haines, Carleton Young, Ken Howell

Synopsis: Muggs Maloney (Leo Gorcey) is supposed to be preparing for the Golden Gloves competition but he doesn't want to train anymore in a stuffy slum building. His friend Danny (Bobby Jordan) lures him upstate to what he thinks is going to be a training camp, but instead turns out to be a Civilian Read More

Fighting Playboy

Actors: Nick Stuart, Lucille Browne, Robert Webb, Michael Heppell

Synopsis: The Fighting Playboy is a "Northern": a western plotline set in the Canadian woods. Nick Stuart plays the ne'er-do-well son of a wealthy man, who cuts Stuart off without a dime because the boy refuses to make something of himself. Thus, Stuart heads northward to prove his mettle. In short order Read More

Blake of Scotland Yard [Serial]

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Ralph Byrd

Synopsis: Silver-haired silent film leading man Herbert Rawlinson plays Scotland Yard inspector Sir James Blake in this 15-episode serial. Blake has financed a death ray designed by young inventor Ralph Byrd. The ray will be a boon to mankind (sure!) so long as it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. Those Read More

Put on the Spot

Actors: Eddie Nugent, Maxine Doyle, Fuzzy Knight, Lucille Lund, Don Alvarado

Synopsis: One of the few non-western releases from Sam Katzman's Victory Productions, Put on the Spot stars Eddie Nugent as G-Man Bob Andrews. When Joe Bradley (George Walsh) is railroaded into prison for a murder he didn't commit, Andrews takes it upon himself to clear the man. Digging up new evidence, our Read More

Rio Grande Romance

Actors: Eddie Nugent, Maxine Doyle, Fuzzy Knight, Lucille Lund, Don Alvarado

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a G-man goes on vacation and ends up pursing a crook disguised as an honest lawyer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Underworld Terror

Secrets of Chinatown

Synopsis: Devil worshipping and Chinese tongs were the selling points of this ultra low-budget thriller produced at Willow Park, B.C., Canada. Assigned to quell a Chinatown crime wave, private detective Donegal Dawn (Raymond Lawrence) discovers that his best friend, Robert Rand (Nick Stuart), has become Read More

A Demon for Trouble

Synopsis: In his first of thirty-two B-Westerns for producer A.W. Hackel, bantamweight Bob Steele plays Bob Worth, a cowboy seeking employment at Lita Morton's (Gloria Shea) New Mexico ranch. Lita's brother Bud (Nick Stuart) turns him down flat and instead puts the property up for sale. The buyer, Dyer Read More

Police Call

Actors: Nick Stuart, Merna Kennedy, Roberta Gale, Mary Carr, Warner P. Richmond

Synopsis: Just because Police Call was cheaply made doesn't mean it isn't fun to watch. Nick Stuart stars as Danny, a champion boxer who hopes to make enough money to support his lovin' ma and his kid sister. This accomplished, Danny begins working towards saving for his college education. These plans are Read More

Secret Sinners

Actors: Jack Mulhall, Sue Carol, Nick Stuart, Cecilia Parker, Armand Kaliz

Synopsis: A whole slew of former silent-film favorites shows up in Mayfair's Secret Sinners. Dilettante songwriter Jack Mulhall falls in love with chorus girl Sue Carol and promises to marry her -- as soon as he can get a divorce from his wife Natalie Morehead. As the months pass, Carol becomes convinced Read More

Mystery Train

Actors: Hedda Hopper, Bryant Washburn, Marceline Day, Jack Richardson

Synopsis: Future gossip columnist Hedda Hopper enjoyed one of her few top-billed movie roles in the independently-produced thriller Mystery Train. After several reels of heavy plotting, a Pullman car is cut loose from its train and sent hurtling down a steep railway slope in the Rockies. Hero Ronald Read More

Trapped

Actors: Nick Stuart, Priscilla Dean, Nina Quartero, Tom Santschi

Synopsis: Trapped could well describe how former silent-movie queen Priscilla Dean must have felt when she was cast in this poverty-row quickie. Nick Stuart, the chauffeur for a gangster chieftain, falls in love with Nena Quartaro, the daughter of brassy nightclub entertainer Dean. Meanwhile, Dean herself Read More

Sundown Trail

Actors: Tom Keene, Marion Shilling, Nick Stuart, Hooper Atchley, Stanley Blystone

Synopsis: In this western, a cowboy and an eastern city-slicker find they are co-inheritors of a ranch. The genteel woman loathes the West and is appalled by the rough and tumble ways of the cowboy. Later after he saves their ranch from cattle rustlers, she changes her tune and they fall in love. ~ Sandra Read More

Sheer Luck

Actors: Jobyna Ralston, Nick Stuart, Bobby Vernon, Philo McCullough

Synopsis: Several silent-film favorites briefly extended their film careers in the Poverty Row epic Sheer Luck. Nick Stuart plays a milkman who's "that way" about winsome Jobyna Ralston. The wealthy and powerful villain, Philo McCullough, steals Ralston's heart, then tries to take a few other things. But Read More

The Fourth Alarm

Actors: Nick Stuart, Ann Christy, Ralph Lewis, Tom Santschi, Harry Bowen

Synopsis: In this action-romance, a fireman captures a lovely little arsonist while heading out to fight a fire. He later has a debilitating accident and becomes a fire inspector upon the waterfront. There he discovers that his lover's father has been manufacturing explosives illegally. Now he must decide Read More

Happy Days

Synopsis: Filmed in "Fox Grandeur," an early widescreen process, Happy Days was the immediate follow-up to Fox Studios' Movietone Follies of 1929. Most of the film takes place on the showboat of Mississippi entrepreneur Colonel Billy Batcher (Charles E. Evans). When the Colonel faces foreclosure after Read More

Swing High

Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, Fred Scott, Dorothy Burgess, John Sheehan, Daphne Pollard

Synopsis: Advertised as an "all star" film, Swing High is hardly that: The biggest name in the picture, both in terms of popularity and sheer marquee space, was Helen Twelvetrees. A variation of the 1926 German classic Variety, the film casts Twelvetrees and Dorothy Burgess as sisters Maryan and Trixie, a Read More

Why Leave Home?

Actors: Sue Carol, Dixie Lee, Jean Bary, Nick Stuart, Richard Keene

Synopsis: Dixie Lee, best known to latter-day viewers as the first wife of Bing Crosby, essayed a leading role in the early Fox talkie Why Leave Home?. Things get under way when suburban matrons Ethel (Ilka Chase), Susan (Dot Farley) and Maude (Laura Hamilton) discover that their husbands George (Jed Read More

Chasing through Europe

Actors: Gavin Gordon, E. Alyn Warren, Sue Carol, Nick Stuart, Gustav von Seyffertitz

Synopsis: Chasing Through Europe was an entertaining sequel to David Butler's 1928 directorial effort The News Parade. Nick Stuart returns in the role of a brash newsreel cameraman who trods the globe in search of a "hot scoop." In the course of his travels, Stuart meets Sue Carol, engaged to marry a man Read More

Girls Gone Wild

Actors: Sue Carol, Nick Stuart, William Russell, Roy D'Arcy, John Darrow

Synopsis: In this drama, a young woman gets angry when her boyfriend's father, a motorcycle cop, stops her for speeding, refuses her bribe, and makes her go to court. She is so angry that she dumps her beau. Later, the wild young woman is dancing with a renowned bootlegger at a dance on the seamy side of Read More

Joy Street

Synopsis: An heiress Lois Moran heads to the United States from her Swiss boarding school. She begins an exciting life as a flapper whose love interest (Nick Stuart), works unsuccessfully to change her. Only the trauma of an automobile accident makes her realize her mistakes. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The River Pirate

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Lois Moran, Nick Stuart, Earl Foxe, Donald Crisp

Synopsis: One of the first talkies, this film concerns a youth torn between his fatherly gangland mentor and the beautiful, virtuous daughter of a police detective. This film was recently remastered complete with its long-absent talking sequence finale. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

The News Parade

Actors: Nick Stuart, Sally Phipps, Earl Foxe, Truman Talley, Brandon Hurst

Synopsis: Even fifty years after the fact, director David Butler harbored fond memories of 1928's News Parade. Fearless cameraman "Newsreel Nick" (Nick Stuart) will do anything for a good story, even unto risking his neck. His current assignment is to get an exclusive film of camera-shy millionaire A.K. Read More

Why Sailors Go Wrong

Actors: Sally Phipps, Sammy Cohen, Ted McNamara

Synopsis: Why Sailors Go Wrong was directed by Henry "Pathe" Lehrmann, whose comedy technique hadn't changed much since his days with the Keystone studios. Sammy Cohen and Ted McNamara play a pair of silly sailors, the best friends of hero Nick Stuart. In love with wealthy Sally Phipps, Stuart has been Read More

High School Hero

Actors: Nick Stuart, Sally Phipps, William Norton Bailey, John Darrow, Wade Boteler

Synopsis: Veteran leading man David Butler made his directorial debut with High School Hero. The story, co-written by Butler and newspaper humorist William Conselman, concerns a group of high-school Latin students who endeavor to put on an amateur play. Campus rivals Pete Greer (Nick Stuart) and Bill Read More

Cradle Snatchers

Actors: Louise Fazenda, Ethel Wales, Franklin Pangborn, Dorothy Phillips

Synopsis: This first film version of the popular Russell Medcraft-Norma Mitchell stage farce The Cradle Snatchers is also one of the earliest directorial efforts of Howard Hawks. Tired of their husbands' philandering, three wealthy matrons decide to fight fire with fire by hiring three college boys to pose Read More