Melville Shavelson Movies

List of the best Melville Shavelson movies: The Five Pennies(1959), Yours, Mine and Ours(1968), Houseboat(1958), On the Double(1961), Cast a Giant Shadow(1966), It Started in Naples(1960), The War Between Men and Women(1972), The Pigeon That Took Rome(1962), Mixed Company(1974), A New Kind of Love(1963) ... ...

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The Five Pennies

Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to ... See full summary »

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Yours, Mine and Ours

A widower with ten children falls for a widow with eight, and they must decide about forming a huge, unconventional family.

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Houseboat

A widower, his three young children, and a bombshell nanny get to know each other better when circumstances have them living together aboard a badly neglected houseboat.

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On the Double

At the time of the Invasion of Normandy, an American soldier is asked to impersonate a British General in order to confuse the Nazi spies and assassins in London.

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Cast a Giant Shadow

In 1947, following the U.N. decision to split British Palestine into separate Jewish and Palestinian states, a former U.S. Army officer is recruited by the Jews to reorganize the Haganah.

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It Started in Naples

Days before his wedding, a Philadelphia lawyer travels to Naples in Southern Italy to settle the estate of his late brother, only to find that he has an Italian nephew who is being cared for by his maternal aunt, a cabaret singer.

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The War Between Men and Women

A sarcastic near-sighted cartoonist, averse to commitment, falls for an eye-catching brunette, a single mother of three and the only woman who can stand his strong anti-feminist opinions, and eventually proposes and moves in with her.

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The Pigeon That Took Rome

In 1944, two American spies, posing as priests, infiltrate German occupied Rome to relay information to HQ but can only communicate via pigeons due to the imposed radio silence.

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Mixed Company

Joseph Bologna portrays a racially prejudiced basketball coach who is persuaded to adopt three (more!) kids of mixed ethnic backgrounds. Frustrated and angry at first, his feelings soon turn to love. In HD.

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A New Kind of Love

The fashion industry and Paris provide the setting for a comedy surrounding the mistaken impression that Joanne Woodward is a high-priced call girl. Paul Newman is the journalist interviewing her for insights on her profession.

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