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  • Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
  • Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House review by Cato from Shropshire
    Rated - 4 stars Good ol' American film 15 March 2007
    ...Grant and Myrna Loy are very good and the throwaawy script helps a lot, as does Melvyn Douglas at his sardonic best as their know-it-all friend. This copy looks to have bee...  

Melvyn Douglas - filmography


  • The Changeling on DVD (1980)
    Starring: George C. Scott,  Trish Van Devere,  Melvyn Douglas
    Director: Peter Medak
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
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  • Being There on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Peter Sellers,  Shirley MacLaine,  Jack Warden
    Director: Hal Ashby
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
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  • The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Meryl Streep,  Barbara Harris
    Director: Jerry Schatzberg
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
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  • Hud on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Patricia Neal,  Melvyn Douglas
    Director: Martin Ritt
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 845 members
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  • Billy Budd (1962)
    Starring: Robert Ryan,  Peter Ustinov,  Melvyn Douglas
    Director: Peter Ustinov
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
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  • Angel on DVD (1937)
    Starring: Ernest Cossart,  Marlene Dietrich,  Melvyn Douglas
    Director: Ernst Lubitsch
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 57 members
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  • The Old Dark House
    Starring: Boris Karloff,  Melvyn Douglas,  Charles Laughton
    Director: James Whale
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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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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  • Old Dark House to Watch Now (1932)
    Starring: Boris Karloff,  Melvyn Douglas,  Charles Laughton
    Director: James Whale
    Certificate: Certificate: U (TBC)
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    Run time: 69 minutes
    Seeking shelter from a pounding rainstorm in a remote region of Wales, several travellers are admitted to a gloomy, foreboding mansion belonging to the extremely strange Femm family. Trying to make the best of it, the guests must deal with their sepulchral host, Horace Femm and his obsessive, ..read more »
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Melvyn Douglas facts

5 most recent films

Ghost Story - 3.0 stars
The Changeling - 3.5 stars
Being There - 3.5 stars
Being There - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
The Seduction of Joe Tynan - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Captains Courageous - 3.5 stars
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House - 3.5 stars
Hud - 3.5 stars
Being There - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Being There - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Counsellor-at-Law - 1.0 stars
Americanization of Emily - 2.5 stars
The Seduction of Joe Tynan - 2.5 stars
Billy Budd - 3.0 stars
Ghost Story - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Peter Sellers - 2 times - show films
Jack Warden - 2 times - show films
Richard Basehart - 2 times - show films
Charles Laughton - 2 times - show films
Boris Karloff - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

James Whale - 2 times - show films
Hal Ashby - 2 times - show films
Edward Ludwig - 1 times - show films
Jerry Schatzberg - 1 times - show films
H.C. Potter - 1 times - show films