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: Gene Kelly Dabney Coleman   
Tags: Action Thriller Action Crime 
Length: 104min
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...

Cast: Robert Mitchum   
Tags: Spy Film Crime Drama Crime Thriller Action Crime 
Length: 93min
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...

Cast: Richard Jaeckel Christopher George   
Tags: Thriller Horror Action Natural Horror 
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...

Cast: Louise Fletcher Harvey Hart   
Tags: Drama Religious Drama 
Length: 74min
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"...

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck Lesley Ann Warren Ida Lupino   
Tags: Drama Ensemble Film 
Length: 74min
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...

Brink's: The Great Robbery (1976)
Cast: Marvin J. Chomsky   
Tags: Detective Film Caper Mystery 
Length: 97min
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

Cast: Raymond St. Jacques Donnelly Rhodes   
Tags: Social Problem Film Thriller Science Fiction Drama 
Length: 103min
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...

Cast: Fred Williamson James McEachin Leslie Nielsen Ruby Dee   
Tags: Police Detective Film Crime Drama Drama Police Drama 
Length: 100min
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...

Tags: Mystery Adventure Action Master Criminal Films Spy Film 
Length: 89min
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...

How to Commit a Marriage (1969)
Cast: Bob Hope Jackie Gleason Jane Wyman   
Tags: Comedy Domestic Comedy 
Length: 96min
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...






























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