Writing

Nelson Gidding

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Haunting poster
7.1

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…

The Haunting

1963

The Andromeda Strain poster
7.1

When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scrambles to a secure laboratory and tries first to isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form, unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.

The Andromeda Strain

1971

Lost Command poster
6.2

After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts to convert a rugged band of soldiers into a formidable fighting unit, with the promise of marrying a beautiful countess if he's made a general.

Lost Command

1966

The Hindenburg poster
6.3

Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.

The Hindenburg

1975

Skullduggery poster
4.5

An expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea comes across a tribe of ape-like people who may or may not be ancestors of early man.

Skullduggery

1970

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure poster
5.0

After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium.

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

1979

Onionhead poster
5.5

An irresponsible student enlists in the Coast Guard expecting to sit out World War II.

Onionhead

1958

Odds Against Tomorrow poster
6.9

An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

Odds Against Tomorrow

1959

The Misfit Brigade poster
5.7

War story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners.

The Misfit Brigade

1987

I Want to Live! poster
7.0

Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.

I Want to Live!

1958

The Helen Morgan Story poster
5.3

Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.

The Helen Morgan Story

1957

Nine Hours to Rama poster
6.2

José Ferrer and Horst Buchholz star in this fictionalised account of events leading up to the assassination of Indian spiritual leader and independence campaigner Mahatma Gandhi.

Nine Hours to Rama

1963

Journey of Honor poster
5.1

The son of a besieged Shogun in war-torn 17th century Japan travels to Spain to buy weaponry from the king.

Journey of Honor

1991

The Mummy Lives poster
4.2

An Egyptian noble, sentenced to death for a forbidden affair, returns from the grave 3,000 years later and becomes obsessed with a woman whom he thinks is the reincarnation of his dead lover.

The Mummy Lives

1993

The Inspector poster
7.1

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

The Inspector

1962

The Life You Save May Be Your Own poster
NR

A Southern Gothic parable (truncated on-screen as “The Life You Save”) that twists the typical story of chivalrous boy-meets-girl romance, it follows a seemingly aimless drifter who inserts himself into the isolated lives of an old spinster and her invalid daughter. Adaptation of the short story by Flannery O’Connor.

The Life You Save May Be Your Own

1957