Melvyn Douglas Puns

What motion pictures were both William Powell and Melvyn Douglas in?

Best Picture

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Alien
3. All That Jazz
4. Kramer vs. Kramer
5. Stalker
6. Manhattan
7. Life of Brian
8. Being There
9. Nosferatu the Vampyre
10. Breaking Away

Best Director

1. Francis Ford Coppola for Apocalypse Now
2. Bob Fosse for All That Jazz
3. Ridley Scott for Alien
4. Andrei Tarkovsky for Stalker
5. Woody Allen for Manhattan

Best Lead Actor

1. Roy Scheider as Joe Gideon in All That Jazz
2. Dustin Hoffman as Ted Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer
3. Peter Sellers as Chance the gardener in Being There
4. Martin Sheen as Benjamin Willard in Apocalypse Now
5. Jack Lemmon as Jack Godell in The China Syndrome

Best Lead Actress

1. Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Alien
2. Sally Field as Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae
3. Diane Keaton as Mary Wilkie in Manhattan
4. Bette Midler as Mary Rose Foster in The Rose
5. Jane Fonda as Kimberly Wells in The China Syndrome

Best Supporting Actor

1. Robert Duvall as Bill Kilgore in Apocalypse Now

2. Marlon Brando as Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now

3. Justin Henry as Billy Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer

4. Melvyn Douglas as Ben Rand in Being There

4. Ian Holm as Ash in Alien

Best Supporting Actress

1. Meryl Streep as Joanna Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer

2. Ann Reinking as Katie Jagger in All That Jazz

3. Mariel Hemingway as Tracy in Manhattan

4. Jane Alexander as Margaret Phelps in Kramer vs. Kramer

4. Shirley MacLaine as Eve Rand in Being There

Best Original Screenplay

1. Alien

1. All That Jazz

3. Manhattan

4. Life of Brian

5. Breaking Away

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Kramer vs. Kramer
3. Being There
4. Stalker
5. The Muppet Movie

Best Animated Film

1. The Castle of Cagliostro
2. Tale of Tales
3. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

Best Non-English Language Film

1. Stalker
2. Nosferatu the Vampyre
3. The Tin Drum
4. The Marriage of Maria Braun
5. Camera Buff

Best Documentary Film

1. The Kids Are Alright
2. Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
3. Best Boy
4. ¡Que viva México!
5. Town Bloody Hall

1 - Christopher Plummer (December 13, 1929-February 26, 2012) - Beginners (2011) - 82 years, 2 months and 13 days

2 - George Burns (January 20, 1896-March 29, 1976) - The Sunshine Boys (1975) - 80 years, 2 months and 9 days

3 - Melvyn Douglas (April 5, 1901-April 14, 1980) - Being There (1979) - 79 years and 9 days

4 - John Gielgud (April 14, 1904-March 29, 1982) - Arthur (1981) - 77 years, 11 months and 15 days

5 - Don Ameche (May 31, 1908-March 24, 1986) - Cocoon 1 (1985) - 77 years, 9 months and 21 days

6 - Jack Palance (February 18, 1919-March 30, 1992) - City Slickers 1 (1991) - 73 years, 1 month and 12 days

7 - Alan Arkin (March 26, 1934-February 25, 2007) - Little Miss Sunshine (2006) - 72 years, 10 months and 30 days

8 - John Houseman (September 22, 1902-April 2, 1974) - The Paper Chase (1973) - 71 years, 6 months and 11 days

9 - James Coburn (August 31, 1928-March 21, 1999) - Affliction (1998) - 70 years, 6 months and 18 days

10 - Edmund Gwenn (September 26, 1877-March 20, 1948) - Miracle on the 34th Street (1947) - 70 years, 5 months and 23 days

Do your worst!

Best run in terms of anything

Cary Grant: Topper, The Awful Truth, Only Angels Have Wings, Wedding Present, Bringing Up Baby, Holiday, Gunga Din, This Is the Night, Merrily We Go to Hell, Suzy, In Name Only, The Toast of New York, The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, Sylvia Scarlett, When You're in Love, Wings in the Dark, Big Brown Eyes, Wedding Present, Born to Be Bad, Kiss and Make-Up, Ladies Should Listen, The Last Outpost, Enter Madame, The Woman Accused, Hot Saturday, Madame Butterfly, She Done Him Wrong, Gambling Ship, I'm No Angel, Alice in Wonderland, Thirty-Day Princess, Singapore Sue, The Eagle and the Hawk, Devil and the Deep, Sinners in the Sun, and Blonde Venus.

Clark Gable: It Happened One Night, Test Pilot, Gone With The Wind, Idiot's Delight, Mutiny on the Bounty, Red Dust, Wife Vs. Secretary, Manhattan Melodrama, The Painted Desert, Dance, Fools, Dance, The Easiest Way, Chained, Forsaking All Others, After Office Hours, China Seas, Call of the Wild, No Man of Her Own, The White Sister, Parnell, Saratoga, Too Hot to Handle, Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise), Possessed, Polly of the Circus, Strange Interlude, Hell Divers, Night Flight, Hold Your Man, Dancing Lady, Men in White, A Free Soul, Laughing Sinners, The Finger Points, Sporting Blood, The Secret Six, Night Nurse, Cain and Mabel, Love on the Run, San Francisco, and Idiot's Delight.

John Wayne: The Big Trail, Stagecoach, The Star Packer, Riders of Destiny, Blue Steel, Born Reckless, Arizona, The Deceiver, Maker of Men, The Shadow of the Eagle, The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, Sagebrush Trail, Three Texas Steers, Red River Range, Overland Stage Raiders, Pals of the Saddle, New Frontier, Santa Fe Stampede, The Night Riders, Allegheny Uprising, The New Frontier, Winds of the Wasteland, The Lawless Nineties, King of the Pecos, The Oregon Trail, The Lonely Trail, Lawless Range, Conflict, Sea Spoilers, I Cover the War!, Adventure's End, Born to the West, Wyoming Outlaw, California Straight Ahead!, Idol of the Crowds, The Lucky Texan, West of the Divide, The Trail Beyond, The Man from Utah, Randy Rides Alone, Texas Terror, 'Neath the Arizona Skies, The Dawn Rider, The Desert Trail, Paradise Canyon, Westward Ho, The Man from Monterey, Baby Face, The Three Musketeers, Somewhere in Sonora, The Hurricane Express, That's My Boy, The Big Stampede, Ride Him, Cowboy, Two-Fisted Law, Haunted Gold, Lady and Gent, The Telegraph Trail, His Private Secretary, Rainbow Valley, The Lawless Frontier, The Life of

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It could be the best in terms of anything

Paul Newman: The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Exodus, From the Terrace, Paris Blues, Hud, Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, Sweet Bird of Youth, Harper, Lady L, Hombre, Torn Curtain, Winning, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Secret War of Harry Frigg, The Prize, What a Way to Go!, The Outrage, and A New Kind of Love.

Gregory Peck: To Kill a Mockingbird, Mackenna's Gold, The Chairman, Cape Fear, Captain Newman, M.D., How the West Was Won, Behold a Pale Horse, Marooned, Mirage, Arabesque, The Stalking Moon, and The Guns of Navarone.

Steve McQueen: The Sand Pebbles, The Great Escape, Love with the Proper Stranger, The Magnificent Seven, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Cincinnati Kid, Bullitt, The Honeymoon Machine, The Honeymoon Machine, The War Lover, Soldier in the Rain, Nevada Smith, Baby the Rain Must Fall, and The Reivers.

Dustin Hoffman: The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, The Tiger Makes Out, Madigan's Millions, and John and Mary.

Peter O Toole: Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, The Lion in Winter, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Kidnapped, The Day They Robbed the Bank of England, The Savage Innocents, What's New Pussycat?, The Sandpiper, Lord Jim, How to Steal a Million, The Bible: In the Beginning..., Casino Royale, The Night of the Generals, and Great Catherine.

Henry Fonda: How the West Was Won, Firecreek, Once Upon a Time in the West, Madigan, The Boston Strangler, Fail Safe, Sex and the Single Girl, The Longest Day, Advise & Consent, Spencer's Mountain, The Dirty Game, In Harm's Way, A Big Hand for the Little Lady, Welcome to Hard Times, The Best Man, The Rounders, Battle of the Bulge, and Yours, Mine and Ours.

Toshiro Mifune: Shinsengumi, The Battle of the Japan Sea, Red Lion, Safari 5000, Hell in the Pacific, Samurai Banners, The Day the Sun Rose, Admiral Yamamoto, Japan's Longest Day, The Sands of Kurobe, Samurai Rebellion, Grand Prix, The Mad Atlantic, The Adventure of Kigan Castle, Rise Against the Sword, The Sword of Doom, Fort Graveyard, The Retreat from Kiska, Sanshiro Sugata, Samurai Assassin, Red Beard, Legacy of the 500,000, The Lost World of Sinbad, Whirlwind, Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki, Attack Squadron!, High and Low, Yojimbo, The Youth and his Amulet, Sanjuro, Tatsu, Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong, Salaryman Chushingura Part 1 & 2, The Story of Osaka Castle, The Youth and his Amulet, Ánimas Trujano, The Last Gunfight, The Gambling Samurai, The Bad Sleep Well, Man Against Man

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Don't you think it's time for a little romance and alot of laughs? Lubitsch ya! This week on the Criterion Film Club, we're going to explore the work of the great Ernst Lubitsch and have a good time.

THE SMILING LIEUTENANT (1931): Starring Miriam Hopkins, Claudette Colbert, and Maurice Chevalier. Maurice Chevalier’s randy Viennese lieutenant is enamored of Claudette Colbert’s freethinking, all-girl-orchestra-leading cutie. Yet complications ensue when the sexually repressed princess of the fictional kingdom of Flausenthurm, played by newcomer Miriam Hopkins, sets her sights on him. THE SMILING LIEUTENANT is a delightful showcase for its rising female stars, who are never more charming than when Colbert tunefully instructs Hopkins, “Jazz Up Your Lingerie.”

NINOTCHKA (1939): Starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. "Garbo Talks!" proclaimed ads when silent screen star Greta Garbo made her debut sound picture. Nine years later, the movie legend was ready for another change. "Garbo laughs!" cheered the publicity for her first comedy, the frothy tale of a dour Soviet envoy who, while on assignment in Paris, succumbs to the pleasures of capitalism--and to the charms of a suave man-about-town (Melvyn Douglas.) Working from a cleverly barbed script cowritten by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, director Ernst Lubitsch crafts a marvel of sublime wit and champagne elegance.

TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942): Starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny. As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch stars Jack Benny and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught in a dangerous spy plot. TO BE OR NOT TO BE is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S entered WWII. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.

HEAVEN CAN WAIT (1943): Starring Gene Tierney and Don Ameche. Deceased playboy Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche) presents himself to the outer offices of Hades, where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter through the gates of hell. Though the devil doubts that Henry’s sins qualify him for eternal damnation, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetim

Pilot on me!!

They’re on standbi

My Rating: 1/5 stars

Plot

Captain S. Melly takes over as commander of an army anti-aircraft battery and is surprised to find it a mixed-sex base. He tries to bring it into shape with the help of a Sergeant Major.

Verdict

It's not a good start when the first joke is repeated ad nauseum and it doesn't get any better. Windsor Davies is just playing the same character as in It Ain't Half Hot Mum and so is Melvyn Hayes. The cast are just too old for this caper. The writing is terrible and the line delivery amateurish.

I made it thirty minutes in and gave up.

David Lodge is great as a drunken officer though he's just reprising his role as the drunken landlord in Behind.

My Favourite Character

None

The Trivia Section aka What I Found on Wikipedia

Only Kenneth Connor from the original crew stars, though Joan Sims, Jack Douglas and Peter Butterworth have small parts

It failed miserably at the box office

And The 'Not Aged Well' Award Goes To...

Nothing really

Best Carry-On Style Character Names

Captain S. Melly, Gunner Shorthouse, Privates Ready, Willing & Able

Best Non-Carry-On Style Character Names

None

Relevant Extracts From The Kenneth Williams Diaries

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Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

Ever wonder:

#Who's Watching Me?

Tonight the spirits are entering the realm of Movie Dicks and we can't wait for them to get busted. First, the kid from Witness is now stuck with the ghost of a serial killer's victim and has to help her solve the crime, all without the help of Harrison Ford and the Amish. Next, several classic Hollywood stars come together after a family tragedy and realize that the ghosts of their past are literal. Ghosts, they just won't leave you alone. Fuck off, ghosts!

The show begins at 8:00 PM CT in the PreRec Twitch chat.

(All Links Here)

• Lady in White (Director's Cut) (1988) (1:57:50)

• Ghost Story (1981) (1:50:45)

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##Synopses:

Lady in White (1988): An author tells the story of how, as a young boy growing up in a 1960s small town, he was haunted after witnessing the murder of a little girl. Directed by Frank LaLoggia, starring Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco and Katherine Helmond.

Ghost Story (1981): Two generations of men find themselves haunted by the presence of a spectral woman. When the son of one of the elderly men returns to his hometown after his brother's mysterious death, they attempt to unravel her story. Directed by John Irvin, starring Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Houseman, Craig Wasson, Patricia Neal and Alice Krige.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Best Picture

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Alien
3. All That Jazz
4. Kramer vs. Kramer
5. Stalker
6. Manhattan
7. Life of Brian
8. Being There
9. Nosferatu the Vampyre
10. Breaking Away

Best Director

1. Francis Ford Coppola for Apocalypse Now
2. Bob Fosse for All That Jazz
3. Ridley Scott for Alien
4. Andrei Tarkovsky for Stalker
5. Woody Allen for Manhattan

Best Lead Actor

1. Roy Scheider as Joe Gideon in All That Jazz
2. Dustin Hoffman as Ted Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer
3. Peter Sellers as Chance the gardener in Being There
4. Martin Sheen as Benjamin Willard in Apocalypse Now
5. Jack Lemmon as Jack Godell in The China Syndrome

Best Lead Actress

1. Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Alien
2. Sally Field as Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae
3. Diane Keaton as Mary Wilkie in Manhattan
4. Bette Midler as Mary Rose Foster in The Rose
5. Jane Fonda as Kimberly Wells in The China Syndrome

Best Supporting Actor

1. Robert Duvall as Bill Kilgore in Apocalypse Now

2. Marlon Brando as Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now

3. Justin Henry as Billy Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer

4. Melvyn Douglas as Ben Rand in Being There

4. Ian Holm as Ash in Alien

Best Supporting Actress

1. Meryl Streep as Joanna Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer

2. Ann Reinking as Katie Jagger in All That Jazz

3. Mariel Hemingway as Tracy in Manhattan

4. Jane Alexander as Margaret Phelps in Kramer vs. Kramer

4. Shirley MacLaine as Eve Rand in Being There

Best Original Screenplay

1. Alien

1. All That Jazz

3. Manhattan

4. Life of Brian

5. Breaking Away

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Kramer vs. Kramer
3. Being There
4. Stalker
5. The Muppet Movie

Best Animated Film

1. The Castle of Cagliostro
2. Tale of Tales
3. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

Best Non-English Language Film

1. Stalker
2. Nosferatu the Vampyre
3. The Tin Drum
4. The Marriage of Maria Braun
5. Camera Buff

Best Documentary Film

1. The Kids Are Alright
2. Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
3. Best Boy
4. ¡Que viva México!
5. Town Bloody Hall