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Melvyn Douglas
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Melvyn Douglas - what members say
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Horror comedy 18 May 2007
Melvyn Douglas - filmography
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The Changeling
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Peter Medak
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This horror story stars George C. Scott as a music teacher who loses his family in a car accident and moves to Seattle in hopes of starting a new life in a grand old mansion. Unfortunately, his new home turns out to be haunted by the troublesome ghost of a murdered child bent on revenge after 70 ..read more »
 
65%
from 2,402 members
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The Seduction of Joe Tynan
(1979)
Starring: Alan Alda, Meryl Streep, Barbara Harris
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
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Rising politician Joe ... Full DescriptionTynan (Alda) is having serious difficulty juggling his career and his family. In particular, he is experiencing a growing number of problems with his loving, neglected wife. An affair with beautiful lobbyist Karen Traynor (Meryl Streep) further ..read more »
57%
from 12 members
Currently unavailable
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Being There
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden
Director: Hal Ashby
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BEING THERE is based on Jerzy Kosinski's short comic novel about a simpleton, Chance (Peter Sellers), raised in isolation whose only education came from watching TV. When he's forced out of the house where he worked as a gardener by the death of the wealthy recluse who raised him from infancy, he's ..read more »
68%
from 6,354 members
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Being There - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden
Director: Hal Ashby
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BEING THERE is based on Jerzy Kosinski's short comic novel about a simpleton, Chance (Peter Sellers), raised in isolation whose only education came from watching TV. When he's forced out of the house where he worked as a gardener by the death of the wealthy recluse who raised him from infancy, he's ..read more »
72%
from 455 members
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
(1977)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning
Director: Robert Aldrich
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A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most ..read more »
67%
from 8 members
Currently unavailable
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The Tenant
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Roman Polanski
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Director Roman Polanski casts himself in the lead of the psychological thriller The Tenant. Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents an apartment in a spooky old residential building, where his neighbors -- mostly old recluses -- eye him with suspicious contempt. Upon discovering that the apartment's previous ..read more »
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from 2,180 members
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Billy Budd
(1962)
Starring: Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Peter Ustinov
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Adapted from the last book written by Herman Melville, an allegory of good vs. evil, with innocence standing by as the helpless victim. A naive young man is pressed into the service of the British Navy at the very end of the 18th century. He views first hand the cruelty and extreme brutality of the ..read more »
60%
from 17 members
Currently unavailable
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Hud
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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Martin Ritt's HUD is an adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel HORSEMAN, PASS BY, successfully transformed into an entertaining and ambitious contemporary Western. Set on a Texas ranch where Cadillacs, cattle, and transistor radios coexist uneasily, the film stars Paul Newman as the hedonistic, ..read more »
72%
from 1,069 member
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My Forbidden Past
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Robert Stevenson
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Barbara Beaurevel lives with her aunt and cousin in New Orleans in the late 1800s. In love with Mark Lucas, a research doctor at Tulane University, her plans to marry him are thwarted. Barbara's family is of the high society stratum, but her late grandmother was not in fact the connection with her ..read more »
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from 13 members
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The Sea of Grass
(1947)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Robert Walker
Director: Elia Kazan
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Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star as a husband and wife on America's frontier; cattlemen in a "Sea of Grass". The wife has an affair which produces a child, and she is ostracised from the community. Meanwhile, the farmers watch helplessly as the sea of grass is exploited until it becomes a ..read more »
50%
from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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Ninotchka
(1939)
Starring: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
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Garbo Talks! proclaimed ads when silent star Greta Garbo debuted in talkies. Nine years and 12 classic screen dramas later, the gifted movie legend was ready for another change. Garbo Laughs! cheered the publicity for her first comedy, a frothy tale of a dour Russian envoy sublimating her womanhood ..read more »
73%
from 270 members
Not currently released
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That Certain Age
on DVD
(1938)
Starring: Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Douglas, Jackie Cooper
Director: Edward Ludwig
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The Fullerton's, an affluent middle class American family, have the balance of their lifestyle upset when young Alice Fullerton falls in love with a talented news reporter invited to lodge in their house. Despite the efforts of her mother, father, boyfriend - and even the reporter himself - nothing ..read more »
61%
from 103 members
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Captains Courageous
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore
Director: Victor Fleming
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A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based on a story by Rudyard Kipling. Young Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew) is the working definition of a spoiled brat; the only child of a wealthy widowed businessman, Harvey ..read more »
73%
from 479 members
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Angel
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Ernest Cossart, Marlene Dietrich, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
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Classic comedy starring Marlene Dietrich. Maria (Dietrich) is married to Sir Frederick Barker (Herbert Marshall), a British diplomat who spends a lot of time travelling and pays little attention to his partner. Maria is starting to feel neglected by her husband and while she is visiting a friend in ..read more »
65%
from 114 members
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Annie Oakley
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas
Director: George Stevens
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Barbara Stanwyk stars in this rip-roaring biopic of the sharpest shooter in the Old West. Annie Oakley is just a gal from the Ohio backwoods but her skill with the six-shooters wins her a place in Buffalo Bill’s legendary Wild West show.
She’s shown the ropes by fellow gunslinger Toby Walker (..read more »
56%
from 15 members
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The Old Dark House
(1932)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton
Director: James Whale
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One of the most literate and visually striking horror films of the Thirties, The Old Dark House was directed by award-winning James Whale the year after he made the seminal Frankenstein, which starred Boris Karloff as the monster. An artful mixture of chills and exceedingly dry gallows humour, The ..read more »
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from 421 members
Not available for rental
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Melvyn Douglas facts
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...agreeable as only French concierges can be);and the ancient but still wonderful Melvyn Douglas as the sinister landlord living 'on site'.
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