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  • The Tenant
  • The Tenant review by Nitaray from
    Rated - 5.0 stars Tragic, but magic. 28 June 2011
    ...agreeable as only French concierges can be);and the ancient but still wonderful Melvyn Douglas as the sinister landlord living 'on site'. The apartment was typical of cheap ...   Read customer review
  • Ninotchka
  • Ninotchka review by RJNeb2 from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars The great Garbo 10 July 2006
    ...f lots of pithy jokes mainly at Communist Russia's expense. Although the smarmy Melvyn Douglas is eminently resistible as the love interest for Garbo's grim visiting commissa...   Read customer review
  • The Old Dark House
  • The Old Dark House review by from London, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Horror comedy 18 May 2007
    ...rs include Charles Laughton, Raymond Massey, Boris Karloff, Ernest Thesiger and Melvyn Douglas, all of whom later became superstars. This alone is a reason to watch the film,...   Read customer review

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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 12 members
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 6,354 members
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  • Being There - Blu-ray (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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 455 members
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  • Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Richard Widmark,  Charles Durning
    Director: Robert Aldrich
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 8 members
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  • The Tenant on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Roman Polanski,  Isabelle Adjani,  Melvyn Douglas
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2,180 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 »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 17 members
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  • Hud on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Patricia Neal,  Melvyn Douglas
    Director: Martin Ritt,  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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 13 members
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  • The Sea of Grass (1947)
    Starring: Katharine Hepburn,  Spencer Tracy,  Robert Walker
    Director: Elia Kazan
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 3 members
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  • Ninotchka (1939)
    Starring: Greta Garbo,  Melvyn Douglas
    Director: Ernst Lubitsch
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 270 members
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  • That Certain Age on DVD (1938)
    Starring: Deanna Durbin,  Melvyn Douglas,  Jackie Cooper
    Director: Edward Ludwig
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 103 members
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 114 members
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  • Annie Oakley on DVD (1935)
    Starring: Barbara Stanwyck,  Preston Foster,  Melvyn Douglas
    Director: George Stevens
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 15 members
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  • The Old Dark House (1932)
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 421 members
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Melvyn Douglas facts

5 most recent films

Ghost Story - 3.0 stars
The Changeling - 3.5 stars
The Seduction of Joe Tynan - 3.0 stars
Being There - 3.5 stars
Being There - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Captains Courageous - 3.5 stars
Ninotchka - 3.5 stars
Being There - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Hud - 3.5 stars
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Counsellor-at-Law - 2.0 stars
Americanization of Emily - 2.5 stars
The Sea of Grass - 2.5 stars
My Forbidden Past - 2.5 stars
Annie Oakley - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Richard Basehart - 2 times - show films
Charles Laughton - 2 times - show films
Robert Redford - 2 times - show films
Shirley MacLaine - 2 times - show films
Barbara Stanwyck - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Hal Ashby - 2 times - show films
James Whale - 2 times - show films
Michael Ritchie - 2 times - show films
George Stevens - 2 times - show films
Ernst Lubitsch - 2 times - show films