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Melvyn Douglas
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Melvyn Douglas - what members say
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Melvyn Douglas - filmography
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The Changeling
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, John Colicos
Director: Peter Medak
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Months after the death of his wife and child in a car accident, composer John Russell (George S. Scott) retires to an old mansion which has been unoccupied for years. But John's hopes of peace and quiet prove unfulfilled, as he finds himself regularly disturbed by a strange and uncanny presence ..read more »
 
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from 2,566 members
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Being There
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Richard Basehart, Jack Warden
Director: Hal Ashby
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Having lived his life as the gardener on a millionaire's estate, Chance (Peter Sellers) knows of the real world only what he has seen on TV. When his benefactor dies, Chance walks aimlessly into the streets of Washington D.C., where he is struck by a car owned by wealthy Eve Rand (Shirley MacLaine)...read more »
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from 6,614 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 »
60%
from 14 members
Currently unavailable
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Being There - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Richard Basehart, Jack Warden
Director: Hal Ashby
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Peter Sellers plays a simple, innocent gardener who falls in with some high-powered political folk who mistake his endless prattle about gardening for allegorical wisdom. Shirley MacLaine is the Washington socialite who brings him home.
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from 524 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 »
69%
from 11 members
Currently unavailable
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The Tenant
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Melvyn Douglas, Isabelle Adjani, Shelley Winters
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 »
65%
from 2,344 members
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The Candidate
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Melvyn Douglas, Peter Boyle, Robert Redford
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Watch now: Unavailable
This documentary-style political drama features Robert Redford as Bill McKay, an idealistic attorney who reluctantly stands for Senate. On the understanding that neither his ex-governor father (Melvyn Douglas) nor the party machine will interfere, McKay runs a refreshingly honest campaign that sees ..read more »
66%
from 744 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: Brandon De Wilde, Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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Paul Newman plays Hud, the hard-drinking, 'no account' son of old style, moralising ranch owner Homer (Melvyn Douglas), in this brutal contemporary Western. Hud and Homer's relationship comes to a head when the government demands the slaughter of the family's complete cattlestock in order to ..read more »
72%
from 1,140 member
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My Forbidden Past
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Lucile Watson, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Robert Stevenson
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Romantic melodrama starring Robert Mitchum and Ava Gardner. Barbara Beaurevel (Gardner) is a decadent belle living with her great aunt and her cousin in 1800s New Orleans. In love with Mark Lucas (Mitchum), a handsome young research doctor at Tulane University, her plans to marry him are thwarted ..read more »
57%
from 21 members
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Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Cary Grant, Melvyn Douglas, Myrna Loy
Director: H.C. Potter
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Jim (Cary Grant) and Muriel Blandings (Myrna Loy) are Manhattanites who are forced to seek a new home for themselves and their two daughters. Jim selects a farmhouse in the country, but upon moving in discovers that not only was he hideously overcharged, but the property needs extensive repairs and ..read more »
70%
from 784 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 »
55%
from 4 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 302 members
Not currently released
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That Certain Age
on DVD
(1938)
Starring: Irene Rich, Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Edward Ludwig
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Musical comedy originally released in 1938. The Fullerton's are a middle class American family whose lives change when young Alice Fullerton falls in love with a news reporter. Despite the efforts of her parents and boyfriend, nothing can stop Alice from following her heart.
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from 109 members
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Angel
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Herbert Mundin, Dennie Moore, Edward Everett Horton
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 »
66%
from 135 members
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Captains Courageous
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Melvyn Douglas, 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 »
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from 513 members
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Annie Oakley
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas
Director: George Stevens
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
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 »
61%
from 22 members
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The Old Dark House
(1932)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton, Melvyn Douglas
Director: James Whale
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Watch now: Unavailable
An American in England decides to go and stay in an old country house with his friend Casper Femm. Upon his arrival he is informed of Casper's untimely death, and is then introduced to the rest of the family, but as evening draws on members of the family begin to get murdered and the murderer must ..read more »
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from 481 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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