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Fred MacMurray - what members say

The Caine Mutiny review by A customer from St Albans, England

A Classic Tale 4 February 2005
...g a Bogart fan so don't expect a bad review! However, good as he is, I think Fred MacMurray steals the show. The story is timeless and has aged pretty well considering... Read customer review

The Trail Of Lonesome Pine review by FrankIV from Cirencester, England

A Real Find 27 September 2009
...between natural justice and civil law is discussed in a wonderful scene between Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney and a sherrif whom MacMurray wants to prosecute a crime, while i... Read customer review

Fred MacMurray - filmography

Follow Me Boys on DVD (1966)
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, David Alan Bailey
Director: Norman Tokar
Certificate:
The trials and tribulations of a jazz saxophonist who retires to a small town.

67% from 63 members

Son Of Flubber on DVD (1963)
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn
Director: Robert Stevenson
Certificate:
The story of an inventor who makes a rain-making machine. Needless to say - it goes wrong...

51% from 167 members

The Absent-Minded Professor on DVD (1961)
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Tommy Kirk, Keenan Wynn
Director: Robert Stevens
Certificate:
The invention of flubber enables its inventor to get his Model-T airborne.

57% from 459 members

The Apartment on DVD (1960)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
Director: Billy Wilder
Certificate:
Winner of numerous Academy and BAFTA Awards, Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT blends his customary harsh cynicism with a humane streak that appears only fleetingly in his films. The movie stars Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter, an office clerk who curries favor with the executives in his office by giving ..read more »

74% from 12,396 members

The Shaggy Dog on DVD (1959)
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk
Director: Charles Barton
Certificate:
Filled with impossible situations and hilarious gags, this comic allegory follows the adventures of Wilby Daniels (Tommy Kirk) after he finds an ancient mysterious ring and unintentionally casts a hex on himself and turns into a huge sheepdog. The only other odd thing is that Wilby still has his ..read more »

53% from 216 members

There's Always Tomorrow on DVD (1956)
Starring: William H. Reynolds, Fred MacMurray, Jane Darwell
Director: Douglas Sirk
Certificate:
THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW is a remake of a 1934 film of the same name. Fred MacMurray is a toy company executive whose wife (Joan Bennett) and kids (Gigi Perreau, William Reynolds and Judy Nugent) take him for granted. Barbara Stanwyck is Fred's former girlfriend, whose own business activities result ..read more »

72% from 89 members

The Caine Mutiny on DVD (1954)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Van Johnson, Jose Ferrer
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Certificate:
Robert Francis is at the center of the story as Willis Keith, a newly minted ensign assigned to the U.S.S. Caine. Keith has an uneasy relationship with his skipper, Lt. Comdr. DeVries (Tom Tully), partly through his own ineptitude and as a result of his disapproval of the slovenly way DeVries seems ..read more »

69% from 802 members

The Caine Mutiny - Blu-ray (1954)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Van Johnson, Jose Ferrer
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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In director Edward Dmytryk's classic seafaring drama, privileged mama's boy Ensign Keith (Robert Francis) gets assigned to the Caine, a rusty old minesweeper with a haggard, undisciplined crew during the latter days of WWII. Soon the paranoid, strawberry-loving Captain Queeg (Humprey Bogart) takes ..read more »

65% from 4 members
Due for release on 2nd July 2012

Borderline on DVD (1950)
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor, Raymond Burr
Director: William A. Seiter
Certificate:
Two undercover agents fall in love whilst working to bring down a drug gang.

36% from 27 members

The Miracle Of The Bells on DVD (1948)
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Fred MacMurray, Alida Valli
Director: Irving Pichel
Certificate:
Granting her final request, a Hollywood press agent brings the dead body of an actress, who died after making her first and only film, back to her hometown for burial..

55% from 33 members

The Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle - The... (1947)
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main
Director: Chester Erskine
Certificate:
This program contains four adventures from the Ma and Pa Kettle Series. Films include, THE EGG AND I, THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF MA AND PA KETTLE, MA AND PA KETTLE GO TO TOWN, and MA AND PA KETTLE BACK ON THE FARM.

43% from 9 members
Currently unavailable

Double Indemnity - Blu-ray (1944)
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Director: Billy Wilder
Certificate:
Wilder's classic noir, a familiar brew of lust, larceny, and lethal intentions, stars Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck as a hot-blooded couple. Framed in flashback, the story is told by the dying Walter Neff (MacMurray), beginning with his first meeting with the seductive Phyllis Dietrichson (..read more »

82% from 17 members
Not available for rental

Double Indemnity (1944)
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Director: Billy Wilder
Certificate:
Director Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler (Creator of the ultimate private investigator, Philp Marlowe - 'The Big Sleep', 'Farewell My Lovely'), adapted James M. Cain's hard-boiled novel into this dark film noir. Insurance investigator Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) plans the perfect murder with the ..read more »

78% from 6,334 members
Not available for rental

The Lady Is Willing on DVD (1942)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Fred MacMurray, Aline MacMahon
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Certificate:
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Lisa Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. Why not her new obstetrician Dr. McBain? She offers him help with his research on rabbits in ..read more »

56% from 53 members

Dive Bomber on DVD (1941)
Starring: Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Allen Jenkins
Director: Michael Curtiz
Certificate:
The true story of the American Naval Air Corps' unsung heroes who flew into danger more for science than glory. The story follows a naval surgeon devoted to aviation medicine, experimenting with ways to eliminate black-outs, altitude sickness and night-blindness. The drama of his personal life ..read more »

59% from 182 members

The Texas Rangers on DVD (1936)
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker
Director: King Vidor
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Made with the full cooperation of the real-life Texas Rangers, this sprawling historical western stars Fred MacMurray as Jim Hawkins, one of three outlaws working the Lone Star State in the years following the American Civil War. Both Jim Hawkins and his partner in crime, Wahoo Jones (Jack Oakie), ..read more »

54% from 55 members

The Trail Of Lonesome Pine on DVD (1936)
Starring: Spanky McFarland, Henry Fonda, Fuzzy Knight
Director: Henry Hathaway
Certificate:
This adaptation of John Fox Jr.'s novel was the first feature to be shot outdoors in Technicolor. It tells the tale of a railroad engineer who inadvertently fans the flames of an ancient family feud when he arrives to build a line through the Blue Ridge Mountains. Academy Award Nominations: Best ..read more »

54% from 20 members

Alice Adams (1935)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone
Director: George Stevens
Certificate:
The misadventures of two social-climbing women in small town America. This is one of Hepburn's best ever roles.

56% from 22 members
Currently unavailable

Fred MacMurray facts

5 most recent films

Follow Me Boys - 3.5 stars
Son Of Flubber - 2.5 stars
The Absent-Minded Professor - 3.0 stars
The Apartment - 3.5 stars
The Shaggy Dog - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Double Indemnity - 4.0 stars
The Apartment - 3.5 stars
There's Always Tomorrow - 3.5 stars
The Caine Mutiny - 3.5 stars
Follow Me Boys - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Borderline - 2.0 stars
The Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle - The Egg and I - 2.5 stars
The Trail Of Lonesome Pine - 2.5 stars
The Miracle Of The Bells - 2.5 stars
Alice Adams - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tommy Kirk - 3 times - show films
Barbara Stanwyck - 3 times - show films
Jean Heather - 2 times - show films
Jack Kruschen - 2 times - show films
Jose Ferrer - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Billy Wilder - 4 times - show films
Edward Dmytryk - 2 times - show films
Robert Stevens - 1 times - show films
Douglas Sirk - 1 times - show films
Chester Erskine - 1 times - show films