 Butterfield 8 1960  N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Mann
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill, Mildred Dunnock, Betty Field, Susan Oliver, Jeffrey Lynn, Kay Medford, George Voskovec
Elizabeth Taylor won the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance as a high-priced call girl. The story is pure soap, but it is glitzy, and Elizabeth Taylor's acting is impressive.
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Caddyshack II 1988  PG, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Allan Arkush
Cast: Jackie Mason, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Dyan Cannon, Robert Stack, Dina Merrill, Randy Quaid, Jessica Lundy, Jonathan Silverman, Brian McNamara, Marsha Warfield, Paul Bartel, Chynna Phillips, Pepe Serna
Eight years after the original "Caddyshack," the sequel appears with Jackie Mason in the role of millionaire contractor Jack Hartounian. Jack's daughter Kate (Jessica Lundy) wants to join upper-crust Bushwood Country Club whose members can't stand Jack. A solution is found by Jack when he buys the majority of Bushwood's stock and turns the country club into an amusement park featuring golf. The confrontation between Jack and the members is finally solved through a golf match.
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 Desk Set 1957  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Walter Lang
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, Dina Merrill, Sue Randall, Neva Patterson, Harry Ellerbe, Nicholas Joy, Diane Jergens
Everything is running on an even keel in a television station's research department–until Richard Sumner (Spencer Tracy) arrives on the scene to computerize the office. 1 User Review
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Fear 1990  R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Rockne S. O'Bannon
Cast: Ally Sheedy, Lauren Hutton, Michael O'Keefe, Dina Merrill, Stan Shaw, Dean Goodman, Pruitt Taylor Vince, John Agar, Keone Young, Jonathan Prince, Don Hood, Marta DuBois
Cayce Bridges (Ally Sheedy) has found fame using her psychic powers to help police crack cases. Now, while working a new case, she discovers that the killer has his own psychic powers and is using them to stalk Cayce.
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The Glow 2002  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Craig R. Baxley
Cast: Portia de Rossi, Dean Cain, Hal Linden, Dina Merrill, Grace Zabriskie, Joseph Campanella, Jonas Chernick, Nelson Tynes, Roberta Angelica, Sabrina Grdevich
It's hard to find an apartment in NYC, so when newlyweds Jackie and Matt (Portia de Rossi and Dean Cain) are offered a cheap apartment in an extremely nice building, they quickly accept the offer. The inhabitants are elderly people who are also health nuts and appear to be in great shape. When other younger couples residing in the complex disappear, it is certain that something is going on. Made for TV.
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The Greatest 1977 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tom Gries, Monte Hellman
Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Muhammad Ali, John Marley, Robert Duvall, David Huddleston, Ben Johnson, James Earl Jones, Lloyd Haynes, Paul Winfield, Dina Merrill, Roger E. Mosley, Annazette Chase, Lucille Benson, Skip Homeier
This is the biography of boxer Muhammad Ali who plays himself–beginning as 18-year-old boxer Cassius Clay who wins a Gold medal at the Olympic Games. Later, he trains under Angelo Dundee (Ernest Borgnine) and wins the World Heavyweight title from Sonny Liston (Roger E. Mosley). Now, he converts to Islam, refuses to join the Army, and goes through a three-and-a-half year court battle before returning to the ring to retake the World Heavyweight title. Throughout the film, Muhammad Ali's actual fight sequences are inter-cut into the story.
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I'll Take Sweden 1965 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frederick De Cordova
Cast: Bob Hope, Tuesday Weld, Frankie Avalon, Dina Merrill, Jeremy Slate, Walter Sande, Roy Roberts, Rosemarie Frankland, John Qualen, Peter Bourne, Fay DeWitt, Alice Frost, Beverly Powers
Bob Holcomb (Bob Hope) travels to Sweden to break up his daughter's (Tuesday Weld) love affair, and, in the process, he meets and falls in love with Karin (Dina Merrill).
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Just Tell Me What You Want 1980 R, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Ali MacGraw, Alan King, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn, Tony Roberts, Peter Weller, Dina Merrill, Joseph Maher, Michael Gross, David Rasche
When his mistress (Ali MacGraw) finally leaves her wealthy, but uncaring, corporate executive (Alan King), he pulls out all stops to get her back and away from her younger lover.
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The Letters 1973 TV, 74 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gene Nelson
Cast: John Forsythe, Pamela Franklin, Ida Lupino, Dina Merrill, Ben Murphy, Leslie Nielsen, Jane Powell, Barbara Stanwyck, Lesley Ann Warren, Henry Jones
This three-part drama revolves around three letters, each lost for one year in the mail, that unexpectedly reach their destinations –a little late! There is a sequel: "Letters from Three Lovers."
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The Lonely Profession 1969 TV, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Douglas Heyes
Cast: Harry Guardino, Dean Jagger, Ina Balin, Joseph Cotten, Barbara McNair, Dina Merrill, Fernando Lamas, Troy Donahue, Stephen McNally, Jack Carter
A private eye (Harry Guardino) is hired to trail the mistress of a reclusive millionaire. After he locates and spends a night with her, he finds her dead the next morning. Now he must clear himself. A good made-for-TV movie that stresses realism in its presentation.
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The Magnificent Ambersons 2002 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfonso Arau
Cast: Madeleine Stowe, Bruce Greenwood, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Gretchen Mol, Jennifer Tilly, William Hootkins, Dina Merrill, James Cromwell, Darren McHugh, Michael Devaney
This made-for-TV remake of Orson Welles' 1942 classic sticks to the same screenplay, with more added, but is not in the same league as the earlier film. It is the story of a wealthy Indianapolis family who must come to grips with a changing world in the early 20th century.
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 Open Season 1996 R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Wuhl
Cast: Robert Wuhl, Tom Selleck, Joe Piscopo, Dina Merrill, Rod Taylor, Helen Shaver, Gailard Sartain, Saul Rubinek, Jimmie Walker, Maggie Han
A Public TV executive (Robert Wuhl) finds his shows receive top ratings (because of a tabulating error), and commercial networks jump on the bandwagon by inserting culture into their programming fare.
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Operation Petticoat 1959 N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O'Brien, Dina Merrill, Gene Evans, Dick Sargent, Arthur O'Connell, Virginia Gregg, Robert F. Simon, Gavin McLeod, Robert Gist, George Dunn, Dick Crockett
The U.S.S. Sea Tiger is a World War II submarine that undergoes more than any military vessel should be required to endure. Not only must the boat be painted pink, it is also used to transport a group of nurses across the Pacific. Cary Grant plays the hapless commanding officer.
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Shade 2003 R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Damian Nieman
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Melanie Griffith, Gabriel Byrne, Hal Holbrook, Thandie Newton, Stuart Townsend, Dina Merrill, Bo Hopkins, Jamie Foxx, Patrick Bauchau, Roger Guenveur Smith, Charles Rocket, Joe Nicolo, George Tovar, Frank Medrano
Charlie (Gabriel Byrne) and Tiffany (Thandie Newton) join forces with fellow L.A. poker players Larry (Jamie Foxx) and Vernon (Stuart Townsend) to carry out a sting in which they plan to beat "The Dean" (Sylvester Stallone) in a poker game. There is one catch: the ill-begotten money belongs to a mob boss, he wants his money back, and now they are pursued by gangsters.
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The Sundowners 1960  N/R, 133 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns, Michael Anderson Jr., Dina Merrill, Chips Rafferty, Lola Brooks, John Meillon, Wylie Watson
Paddy Carmody (Robert Mitchum) and his wife Ida (Deborah Kerr), along with their son (Michael Anderson Jr.), are migrant sheep drovers in Australia. Ida dreams of settling down, but Paddy lives and plays too hard to adapt to the quiet life of home ownership. Academy Award nominations were received for Best Picture, Actress (Kerr), Supporting Actress (Glynis Johns), Director, and Writing.
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Suture 1993 R, 96 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Scott McGehee
Cast: Dennis Haysbert, Mel Harris, Sab Shimono, Dina Merrill, David Graf, Michael Harris, Fran Ryan, John Ingle, Sandra Ellis Lafferty, Sanford Gibbons
Two brothers are separated at birth–Vincent (Mel Harris) and Clay (Dennis Haysbert) later meet at their father's funeral. Clay is a good, unsuspecting man who gets blown up by a car bomb–set off by his brother Vincent in order to cover Vincent's murder of their father. Clay lives, suffers amnesia, goes through plastic surgery, and is helped by his psychiatrist (Sab Shimono) to become "Vincent" (who everyone believes he is). The question is–will Clay regain his true identity before the real Vincent returns? (It's also clever that one brother is white, the other black.)
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True Colors 1991  R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Herbert Ross
Cast: John Cusack, James Spader, Imogen Stubbs, Mandy Patinkin, Richard Widmark, Dina Merrill, Philip Bosco, Paul(2) Guilfoyle, Brad Sullivan, Antonia Rey
The apparent void of political morality in the 1980s is shown through the lives of two college classmates (John Cusack and James Spader). Each comes from a different background and each has separate means and aims in life.
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A Wedding 1978 PG, 125 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Lillian Gish, Ruth Nelson, Desi Arnaz Jr., Vittorio Gassman, Nina Van Pallandt, Dina Merrill, Carol Burnett, Paul Dooley, Amy Stryker, Mia Farrow
This is a good story about an upper-middle-class wedding in which religion and values are satirized.
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The Young Savages 1961 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Shelley Winters, Edward Andrews, Telly Savalas, Pilar Seurat, Milton Selzer, Larry Gates, Vivian Nathan, Jody Fair, Roberta Shore, Robert Burton, John Davis Chandler, Neil Nephew, Stanley Kristien
District Attorney Hank Bell (Burt Lancaster) deals with ghetto gangs from Harlem, where he grew up, while trying to solve the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. The teenage gang members (John Davis Chandler, Neil Nephew, and Stanley Kristien) have been caught, and Bell is assigned the case as prosecutor. The case appears to be easy–until Bell realizes that there is more to it than meets the eye. In fact, one of the defendants is the son of Bell's ex-lover, Mary di Pace (Shelley Winters), and his wife, Karen (Dina Merrill), is turning against him because of his past. Now the question is: As more secrets come to the fore, will Bell be able to keep his principles intact?
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| 1. Butterfield 8 (1960)
2. Caddyshack II (1988)
3. The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
4. Desk Set (1957)
5. Don't Give Up the Ship (1959)
6. Fear (1990)
7. The Glow (2002)
8. The Greatest (1977)
9. I'll Take Sweden (1965)
10. Just Tell Me What You Want (1980)
11. The Letters (1973)
12. The Lonely Profession (1969)
13. The Magnificent Ambersons (2002)
14. Open Season (1996)
15. Operation Petticoat (1959)
16. Shade (2003)
17. The Sundowners (1960)
18. Suture (1993)
19. True Colors (1991)
20. A Wedding (1978)
21. The Young Savages (1961)
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