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Melvyn Douglas

Melvyn Douglas

05/04/1901- 04/08/1981
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The Tenant

The Tenant
7.6/10
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill himself.

Being There

Being There
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/12/1979
  • Character: Benjamin Rand
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

Hud

Hud
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 28/05/1963
  • Character: Homer Bannon
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
7.2/10
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.

Ninotchka

Ninotchka
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 23/11/1939
  • Character: Count Leon d'Algout
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Ghost Story

Ghost Story
6.3/10
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.

Billy Budd

Billy Budd
7.8/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 12/11/1962
  • Character: The Dansker, Sailmaker
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.

The Sea of Grass

The Sea of Grass
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 25/04/1947
  • Character: Brice Chamberlain
A St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

Captains Courageous

Captains Courageous
7.9/10
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.

That's Entertainment, Part II

That's Entertainment, Part II
7.3/10
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 15/11/1935
  • Character: Jeff Hogarth
Awkward Annie (Barbara Stanwyck) loves her sharpshooting rival (Preston Foster) in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

I Never Sang for My Father

I Never Sang for My Father
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 18/10/1970
  • Character: Tom Garrison
Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. Just before the wedding, the mother dies. Hackman's sister (who has been disowned by their father for marrying a Jewish man) advises him to live his own life, and not let himself be controlled by their father.

My Forbidden Past

My Forbidden Past
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/04/1951
  • Character: Paul Beaurevel
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.

We Were Dancing

We Were Dancing
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 30/04/1942
  • Character: Nicholas Prax
A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American socialites.

Advance to the Rear

Advance to the Rear
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyWarWestern
  • Release: 10/06/1964
  • Character: Col. Claude Brackenbury
Slapstick rules in this 1964 Civil War comedy about miltary misfits and their incompetent commanders. Directed by George Marshall, and starring Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Jim Backus, Andrew Prine, Alan Hale Jr., Jesse Pearson, Michael Pate, James Griffith, Preston Foster, Yvonne Craig and the ever ubiquitous Whit Bissell.

One Is a Lonely Number

One Is a Lonely Number
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/06/1972
  • Character: Joseph Provo
A young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with and for a time lives with the hope that her husband will come back to her. After uncovering disturbing new information about her husbands infidelity, she finally comes to realize her marriage is truly over. And it is only then that she discovers what is truly important in life.

Tell Me a Riddle

Tell Me a Riddle
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/12/1980
  • Character: David
Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their granddaughter Jeannie in San Francisco.

There's Always a Woman

There's Always a Woman
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 20/04/1938
  • Character: William H. Reardon
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.

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