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Son Of Flubber on DVD (1963)
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Charlie Ruggles, William Demarest
Director: Robert Stevenson
Certificate:
The lovable but hopelessly absent-minded professor, Ned Brainard, bounces back with new mishaps when he experiments with the amazing by-products of his startling anti-gravity substance - 'Flubber'.

51% from 176 members

Viva Las Vegas on DVD (1963)
Starring: Cesare Danova, Jack Carter, William Demarest
Director: George Sidney
Certificate:
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Viva Las Vegas, one of Elvis Presley's most popular vehicles, adheres as rigidly to formula as a Kabuki dance. Elvis plays a race-car driver competing in the Las Vegas Grand Prix opposite his principal rival, Cesare Danova. To finance his entry, Elvis takes a job as a casino waiter. Naturally, he ..read more »

65% from 776 members

Dangerous When Wet (1953)
Starring: Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, Jack Carson
Director: Charles Walters
Certificate:
A young woman enters a contest to be the first to swim the English Channel.

95% from 4 members
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Behave Yourself! on DVD (1951)
Starring: Farley Granger, William Demarest, Lon Chaney Jr.
Director: George Beck
Certificate:
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Young couple, Kate and William Denny, get caught up in the criminal underworld after adopting a stray pooch, which just so happens to to carry the key element to a criminal plan to hijack a million dollar shipment.

42% from 50 members

Sorrowful Jones on DVD (1949)
Starring: Thomas Gomez, Bob Hope, Bruce Cabot
Director: Sidney Lanfield
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Comedy starring Bob Hope as Humphrey 'Sorrowful' Jones, a low-rent bookmaker whose freewheeeling lifestyle is brought to an abrupt halt after a gambler leaves behind his young daughter Martha Jane (Mary Jane Saunders) as a bet marker. When the father is killed by mobster Big Steve Holloway (Bruce ..read more »

56% from 34 members

The Jolson Story / Jolson Sings Again on DVD (1946)
Starring: Evelyn Keyes, Ludwig Donath, William Demarest
Director: Alfred E. Green, Henry Levin
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A double bill of films making up a biopic of Broadway entertainer Al Jolson. In 'The Jolson Story', young Jolson (Scotty Beckett, and later Larry Parks, whose voice is dubbed for the musical numbers by Jolson himself) has an ambition to perform in vaudeville, although his parents would prefer that ..read more »

75% from 564 members

Along Came Jones on DVD (1945)
Starring: William Demarest, Dan Duryea, Frank Sully
Director: Stuart Heisler
Certificate:
Western starring Gary Cooper and Loretta Young. Melody Jones (Cooper) is a mild-mannered cowpoke who barely knows the difference between a six-shooter and a carbine rifle, but when he rides into Paynesville, he immediately commands the respect - and fear - of the entire town. The locals believe he'..read more »

58% from 135 members

The Great Moment on DVD (1944)
Starring: Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey
Director: Preston Sturges
Certificate:
The biography of Dr.W.T.Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.

60% from 139 members

Sullivan's Travels on DVD (1941)
Starring: Veronica Lake, William Demarest, Robert Warwick
Director: Preston Sturges
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In Preston Sturges' classic comedy of Depression-era America, filmmaker John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea), fed up with directing profitable comedies like Ants in Your Plants of 1939, is consumed with the desire to make a serious social statement in his upcoming film, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Unable ..read more »

73% from 1,778 member

The Jazz Singer on DVD (1927)
Starring: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland
Director: Alan Crosland
Certificate:
Al Jolson stars in this film of a play purportedly based on his own life. He plays Jakie Rabinowitz, a singer trying to make a career on Broadway instead of following the wishes of his Rabbi father to replace him as the Synagogue Cantor. Jakie breaks with his father, becomes Jack Robin and gets on ..read more »

63% from 489 members

The Jazz Singer - Blu-ray (1927)
Starring: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland
Director: Alan Crosland
Certificate:
Al Jolson stars in this film of a play purportedly based on his own life. He plays Jakie Rabinowitz, a singer trying to make a career on Broadway instead of following the wishes of his Rabbi father to replace him as the Synagogue Cantor. Jakie breaks with his father, becomes Jack Robin and gets on ..read more »

61% from 12 members

William Demarest facts

5 most recent films

Son Of Flubber - 2.5 stars
Viva Las Vegas - 3.5 stars
Dangerous When Wet - 5.0 stars
Behave Yourself! - 2.0 stars
Sorrowful Jones - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Jolson Story / Jolson Sings Again - 4.0 stars
Sullivan's Travels - 3.5 stars
Viva Las Vegas - 3.5 stars
The Jazz Singer - 3.0 stars
The Great Moment - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Sorrowful Jones - 3.0 stars
The Jazz Singer - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Dangerous When Wet - 5.0 stars
Behave Yourself! - 2.0 stars
Son Of Flubber - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Nicky Blair - 2 times - show films
May McAvoy - 2 times - show films
Cesare Danova - 2 times - show films
Farley Granger - 2 times - show films
Warner Oland - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alan Crosland - 4 times - show films
George Beck - 2 times - show films
George Sidney - 2 times - show films
Preston Sturges - 2 times - show films
Alfred E. Green - 1 times - show films

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