Melvyn Douglas

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Being There

(1979)

Comedy, Drama

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.

Runtime:

130 min

Director:

Hal Ashby

Cast:

Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart

8.0

95%

83

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The Tenant

(1976)

Drama, Horror, Thriller

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.

Runtime:

125 min

Director:

Roman Polanski

Cast:

Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Bernard Fresson, Shelley Winters

7.6

88%

71

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The Changeling

(1980)

Horror

After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.

Runtime:

103 min

Director:

Peter Medak

Cast:

George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh

7.2

83%

70

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Ninotchka

(1939)

Comedy, Romance

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Runtime:

110 min

Director:

Ernst Lubitsch

Cast:

Greta Garbo, Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire

7.9

97%

N/A

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Hud

(1963)

Drama, Western

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 way...

Runtime:

112 min

Director:

Martin Ritt

Cast:

Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde, Brandon De Wilde

7.8

83%

62

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Captains Courageous

(1937)

Adventure, Drama, Family

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 t...

Runtime:

115 min

Director:

Victor Fleming

Cast:

Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Charley Grapewin

8.0

94%

N/A

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The Candidate

(1972)

Comedy, Drama

Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.

Runtime:

110 min

Director:

Michael Ritchie

Cast:

Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas, Don Porter, Allen Garfield

7.0

88%

66

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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

(1948)

Comedy, Romance

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.

Runtime:

94 min

Director:

H. C. Potter

Cast:

Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Reginald Denny, Sharyn Moffett

7.3

80%

N/A

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The Old Dark House

(1932)

Comedy, Horror

Seeking shelter from a relentless rainstorm and landslides in a remote region of Wales, five travelers are admitted to a large foreboding old house that belongs to the extremely strange Femm family. Sepulchral Horace Femm and his obsessive, inhospitable sister Rebecca are the group's peculiar hosts. The house also holds surprises - and...

Runtime:

72 min

Director:

James Whale

Cast:

Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Ernest Thesiger, Raymond Massey

7.3

100%

N/A

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Ghost Story

(1981)

Drama, Horror, Thriller

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.

Runtime:

110 min

Director:

John Irvin

Cast:

Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Houseman, Craig Wasson

6.3

30%

N/A

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Billy Budd

(1962)

Action, Drama

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.

Runtime:

119 min

Director:

Peter Ustinov

Cast:

Robert Ryan, Terence Stamp, Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Peter Ustinov

7.8

91%

N/A

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The Americanization of Emily

(1964)

Comedy, Drama, Romance, War

American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless and dangerous D-Day mission concocted by a deranged admiral.

Runtime:

115 min

Director:

Arthur Hiller

Cast:

James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn, Joyce Grenfell

7.4

100%

N/A

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I Never Sang for My Father

(1970)

Drama, Family

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 ...

Runtime:

92 min

7.8

100%

N/A

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A Woman's Face

(1941)

Drama, Thriller

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

Runtime:

106 min

Director:

George Cukor

Cast:

Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt, Osa Massen, Reginald Owen

7.2

100%

N/A

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Theodora Goes Wild

(1936)

Comedy, Romance

The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against h...

Runtime:

94 min

Director:

Richard Boleslawski

Cast:

Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell, Thurston Hall, Rosalind Keith

7.3

N/A

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Angel

(1937)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.

Runtime:

91 min

Director:

Ernst Lubitsch

Cast:

Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas, Edward Everett Horton, Ernest Cossart

7.4

N/A

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Twilight's Last Gleaming

(1977)

Thriller

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 trusted advisors.

Runtime:

146 min

6.9

88%

N/A

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That Uncertain Feeling

(1941)

Comedy, Romance

A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.

Runtime:

84 min

Director:

Ernst Lubitsch

Cast:

Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith, Alan Mowbray, Olive Blakeney

6.8

60%

N/A

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Tonight or Never

(1931)

Comedy, Romance

A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.

Runtime:

80 min

Director:

Mervyn LeRoy

Cast:

Gloria Swanson, Melvyn Douglas, Alison Skipworth, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Boris Karloff

7.8

N/A

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Annie Oakley

(1935)

Drama, Western

Awkward Annie (Barbara Stanwyck) loves her sharpshooting rival (Preston Foster) in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

George Stevens

Cast:

Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas, Moroni Olsen, Pert Kelton

6.8

N/A

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Counsellor at Law

(1933)

Drama

Successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns his wife has been unfaithful.

Runtime:

82 min

Director:

William Wyler

Cast:

John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Isabel Jewell, Melvyn Douglas

7.6

100%

N/A

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The Sea of Grass

(1947)

Drama, Western

A St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

Runtime:

123 min

6.4

17%

N/A

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The Seduction of Joe Tynan

(1979)

Drama

Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family life. But it could be a big boost to his career, so he takes it on. Helping him prepare the ca...

Runtime:

108 min

Director:

Jerry Schatzberg

Cast:

Alan Alda, Barbara Harris, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Melvyn Douglas

6.1

100%

N/A

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Too Many Husbands

(1940)

Comedy

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.

Runtime:

81 min

6.6

N/A

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Two-Faced Woman

(1941)

Comedy, Romance

A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.

Runtime:

90 min

6.4

25%

N/A

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The Vampire Bat

(1933)

Horror, Thriller

When the villagers of Klineschloss start dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism. While police inspector Karl remains skeptical, scientist Dr. von Niemann cares for the vampire's victims one by one, and suspicion falls on simple-minded Herman Gleib because of his fondness for bats. A blood-thirsty mob ho...

Runtime:

64 min

Director:

Frank R. Strayer

Cast:

Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, Maude Eburne, George E. Stone

5.7

60%

N/A

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The Great Sinner

(1949)

Drama

A young man succumbs to gambling fever.

Runtime:

110 min

Director:

Robert Siodmak

Cast:

Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston, Ethel Barrymore

6.7

N/A

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Third Finger, Left Hand

(1940)

Comedy

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!

Runtime:

96 min

Director:

Robert Z. Leonard

Cast:

Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Raymond Walburn, Lee Bowman, Bonita Granville

6.9

N/A

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A Woman's Secret

(1949)

Drama, Mystery

A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few p...

Runtime:

84 min

6.1

43%

N/A

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Rapture

(1965)

Drama

Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.

Runtime:

105 min

7.4

N/A

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The Shining Hour

(1938)

Drama, Romance

A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.

Runtime:

76 min

6.1

N/A

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My Forbidden Past

(1951)

Drama

An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.

Runtime:

70 min

6.1

N/A

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As You Desire Me

(1932)

Drama

Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her memory was destroyed during World War I. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Sal...

Runtime:

70 min

Director:

George Fitzmaurice

Cast:

Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Erich von Stroheim, Owen Moore, Hedda Hopper

6.5

83%

N/A

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There's Always a Woman

(1938)

Comedy, Mystery

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...

Runtime:

81 min

Director:

Alexander Hall

Cast:

Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Mary Astor, Frances Drake, Jerome Cowan

6.9

N/A

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The Gorgeous Hussy

(1936)

Drama, History

It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several ...

Runtime:

103 min

Director:

Clarence Brown

Cast:

Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Melvyn Douglas

5.5

N/A

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She Married Her Boss

(1935)

Comedy

A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.

Runtime:

85 min

6.7

N/A

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They All Kissed the Bride

(1942)

Comedy, Romance

Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book on some of her tough ways. With no time for men, the effect an attractive stranger has on her at her sister's wedding is unnerving. When it turns out this is the hated writer, she starts ...

Runtime:

85 min

Director:

Alexander Hall

Cast:

Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Allen Jenkins

5.8

N/A

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Arsène Lupin Returns

(1938)

Mystery

A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farran...

Runtime:

81 min

Director:

George Fitzmaurice

Cast:

Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William, John Halliday, Nat Pendleton

6.7

N/A

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The Amazing Mr. Williams

(1939)

Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Wh...

Runtime:

80 min

Director:

Alexander Hall

Cast:

Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Clarence Kolb, Ruth Donnelly

6.6

N/A

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Fast Company

(1938)

Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance

Married book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

Runtime:

75 min

Director:

Edward Buzzell

Cast:

Melvyn Douglas, Florence Rice, Claire Dodd, Shepperd Strudwick, Louis Calhern

6.7

N/A

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