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Hume Cronyn
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Hume Cronyn - what members say
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A Neglected Classic 3 November 2005
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Prisoner of the Movies 29 October 2010
Hume Cronyn - filmography
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Santa And Pete
(1999)
Starring: Hume Cronyn, Flex Alexander, Tempestt Bledsoe
Director: Duwayne Dunham
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This warmhearted Yuletide tale tells the story of Grandpa Nichols (James Earl Jones) who is spending his first Christmas alone as a widower. His grandson Pete (Flex Alexander from SHE'S ALL THAT) is riveted by his grandfather's story of St. Nick, and Pete decides that it is his desire to do all he ..read more »
 
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from 5 members
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Marvin's Room
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton
Director: Jerry Zaks
Certificate: 
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Upon receiving a call from her leukemia-stricken sister after not speaking with her for two decades, a devil-may-care single mother packs up her two sons--one, a rebellious teen who has spent time in a mental institution--and heads to Florida to reunite with her ailing sibling and their bedridden ..read more »
61%
from 1,955 member
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The Pelican Brief - Blu-ray
(1993)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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Julia Roberts (ERIN BROCKOVICH) stars in THE PELICAN BRIEF as sharp law student Darby Shaw whose querying mind gets her into trouble. A faithful adaptation of John Grisham's (THE FIRM) best-selling novel, this taut thriller follows the travails that beset Shaw when her theory on the cause of the ..read more »
69%
from 673 members
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The Pelican Brief
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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Embroiled in an affair with Thomas Callahan (Sam Shephard), her alcoholic professor, precocious 24-year-old Tulane University law student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) writes up an insightful theory about the recent murder of two Supreme Court justices, one of whom, Abraham Rosenberg (Hume Cronyn), ..read more »
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from 8,961 members
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Hiroshima
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Brian Dennehy, Michael Tucker, Hal Holbrook
Director: Joseph Sargent
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Chronicling America's top-secret Manhattan Project, this made-for-TV drama follows the two-year storm of scientific rivalry, intrigue, disappointment, and triumph in the quest to build the ultimate weapon of mass destruction--the atomic bomb. The all-star cast includes Brian Dennehy, David ..read more »
57%
from 64 members
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Cocoon The Return
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Don Ameche, Courteney Cox, Wilford Brimley
Director: Daniel Petrie
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When the space travellers return to Earth on a special rescue mission, they are reunited with their own families and friends who they left behind when they were offered the gift of eternal youth by benevolent aliens. To their delight they soon realise that Earth isn't the worst planet in the galaxy.
58%
from 2,023 members
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Batteries Not Included
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae
Director: Matthew Robbins
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Set in New York's Lower East Side, this amusing story tells of a group of poor tenants with nothing more than determination to stop the destruction of their building, who are more than delighted when a few friends from outer space drop in to help out...
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from 4,583 members
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Cocoon
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn
Director: Ron Howard
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A group of senior citizens residing in a rest home find their lives turned upside down after they are offered the gift of eternal youth by benevolent aliens in Ron Howard's wonderful tribute to the human spirit. Brian Dennehy is Walter, an alien who returns to earth to rescue 20 of his friends now ..read more »
63%
from 5,048 members
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Honky Tonk Freeway
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Beau Bridges, Teri Garr, Beverly D'Angelo
Director: John Schlesinger
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Merchants and residents of a small Florida hamlet called Ticlaw are up in arms over the construction of a major freeway that's scheduled to bypass their town, funnelling much needed tourism thirty-two miles up the road to the freeway's nearest exit. Mayor Kirby T. Calo attempts to bribe highway ..read more »
52%
from 91 members
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Rollover
(1981)
Starring: Jane Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, Hume Cronyn
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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A political-romantic thriller by Alan J. Pakula and replete with favorite themes of large-scale conspiracy and paranoia, ROLLOVER is perfectly in tune with the director's previous work, although this time set in the world of international high finance. Jane Fonda, who appeared in Pakula's KLUTE as ..read more »
49%
from 10 members
Currently unavailable
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The Parallax View
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, Hume Cronyn
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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While the Watergate scandal filled the headlines, Alan J. Pakula's 1974 thriller took its inspiration from the conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination. Journalist Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) misses witnessing the assassination of a senator at Seattle's Space Needle, but his ..read more »
69%
from 2,025 members
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Gaily, Gaily
(1969)
Starring: Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, Brian Keith
Director: Norman Jewison
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A naive young news reporter arrives in Chicago at the turn of the century, gets a job covering the seamier side of the city for a major newspaper with the help of a "madam", and then gets into a lot of trouble.
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People Will Talk
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Certificate: 
A lovely movie featuring Cary Grant in one of his more inscrutable roles as an angel of mercy to the sick, recalling his work in THE BISHOP'S WIFE. PEOPLE WILL TALK focuses on Dr. Praetorius, a non-traditional doctor whose patients and medical students love him, while his success spurs the jealousy ..read more »
64%
from 443 members
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Brute Force
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford
Director: Jules Dassin
Certificate:
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Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel, corrupt prison guard who has his own less-than-ethical ways of dealing with inmates, enough so that Joe Collins (Lancaster) -- the toughest inmate in the cell block -- has ..read more »
71%
from 118 members
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
Director: Tay Garnett
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James M. Cain's novel received its first authorized screen treatment in this MGM production. Drifter Frank Chambers (John Garfield) takes a job at a roadhouse run by slovenly but likeable Nick Smith (Cecil Kellaway). Nick's sexy young wife Cora (Lana Turner) takes an immediate liking to Frank, but ..read more »
68%
from 1,418 member
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The Phantom Of The Opera
on DVD
(1943)
Starring: Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains
Director: Arthur Lubin
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The masked phantom of the Paris Opera House schemes to make a beautiful young soprano the star of the opera company and wreak revenge on those who stole his music. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best (Color) Cinematography.
59%
from 328 members
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Shadow of a Doubt
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Hume Cronyn
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
The Newton family lead a quiet life in the North California town of Santa Rosa. The Newton's eldest daughter, 'young Charlie', decides that things need brightening up and resolves to contact her Uncle Charlie (after whom she is named) and invite him to stay. On arrival at the telegraph office she ..read more »
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from 3,233 members
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Hume Cronyn facts
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...hodox Dr Noah Praetorius who is hounded by the jealous Professor Rodney Elwell (Hume Cronyn)who hopes to find a dark secret in his past. The secret involves Praetorius's m...
