Melvyn Douglas
Series
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
High-powered attorney George Simon frantically juggles the scandals, crimes, and crises that pass through the chrome-and-glass doors of his art deco office high in the Empire State Building. Balanced on an ethical tightrope, Simon engages in insider trading and bleeds funds from wealthy clients, while tending to the needs of the less fortunate New Yorkers who come from his own working-class background. A political enemy uncovers a past legal indiscretion...
2) Hud
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the very traditional ways of his father. Hud is a man who cares more for himself than he does his young nephew, his dad, or even their understanding housekeeper. When disease threatens the cattle on the Bannon Ranch, the conflict between Hud and his old-line father reaches an all time high.
3) The Tenant
Pub. Date
2002
Description
A timid file clerk becomes obsessed with the previous tenant of his apartment, a young woman who committed suicide under mysterious circumstances.
5) Being there
Pub. Date
1979.
Description
A feeble-minded gardener whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television is sent out into the real world when his employer dies. Equipped with his prize possession, his remote control unit, the gardener encounters a series of hilarious events.
8) Being there
Series
Criterion collection volume 864
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"In one of his most finely tuned performances, Peter Sellers plays the pure-hearted, childlike Chance, a gardener who is forced into the wilds of Washington, D.C., when his wealthy guardian dies. Shocked to discover that the real world doesn't respond to the click of a remote, Chance stumbles into celebrity after being taken under the wing of a tycoon (Melvyn Douglas, in an Oscar-winning performance), who mistakes his protégé's horticultural mumblings...
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Brewton's cattle empire includes a million acres of grazing land. Lutie marries him and they have a daughter Sara. Lutie goes alone to Denver where she and lawyer Chamberlain conceive a son Brock whom Jim later accepts with resignation. Long afterward Brock is killed by a posse and Susie brings Lutie and Jim together once more.
10) Ninotchka
Pub. Date
p2005
Description
A romantic comedy in which Ninotchka, a humorless, dedicated Soviet envoy, and Leon, a gigolo, are transformed when they fall in love in Paris.