Biography: Leslie Nielsen |
Although his career stretches back half a century and includes over 100 films and countless TV programs, Leslie Nielsen gained true fame late in his career, when he starred in a series of comic spoofs beginning with 1980's Airplane!. The son of a... more
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Cast: George A. Romero Hal Holbrook Leslie Nielsen E.G. Marshall
Tags: Horror Natural Horror Supernatural Horror Creature Film
Length: 129min
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...
Cast: Sean Connery Richard Brooks Teri Garr Dean Stockwell
Tags: Media Satire Comedy Black Comedy
Length: 117min
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 Creature Wasn't Nice (1981)
Cast: Patrick Macnee
Tags: Musical Horror Science Fiction Comedy Horror Comedy Sci-Fi Comedy Parody/Spoof
Length: 88min
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...
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis
Tags: Horror Slasher Film
Length: 91min
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...
Cast: Roddy McDowall
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 103min
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...
Cast: David Zucker Lloyd Bridges Robert Stack Peter Graves Jerry Zucker
Tags: Parody/Spoof Absurd Comedy Comedy
Length: 88min
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...
Tags: Thriller
Length: 100min
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...
Cast: Henry Fonda Ava Gardner Shelley Winters
Tags: Disaster Film Action Thriller
Length: 104min
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)...
Tags: Natural Horror Action Horror Thriller
Length: 95min
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 hriller features the prophetic premise of a widening gap in the ozone layer (thanks to human...
Tags: Addiction Drama Action Chase Movie Spy Film
Length: 94min
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...
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