Melvin and Howard
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| Melvin and Howard | |
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| Directed by | Jonathan Demme |
| Produced by | Art Linson Don Phillips |
| Written by | Bo Goldman |
| Starring | Jason Robards Paul Le Mat Elizabeth Cheshire Mary Steenburgen Michael J. Pollard |
| Release date(s) | September 19, 1980 |
| Running time | 95 min |
| Language | English |
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Melvin and Howard is a 1980 movie directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Bo Goldman, based upon the claims of Utah service station owner Melvin Dummar concerning a purported will written by Howard Hughes, leaving Dummar 1/16th of his $2 billion estate, which would have amounted to $156 million. Dummar claimed that Hughes bestowed the $156 million to him after Dummar picked him up as a lost hitchhiker late one evening in December 1968 and at Hughes's request, drove him to the Sands hotel-casino in Las Vegas, but the subsequent legal proceedings found his claims to be false. Notable performers in the film are Jason Robards as Hughes, Paul Le Mat as Melvin Dummar and Mary Steenburgen who later won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Dummar's first wife, Lynda.
Charles Napier and Dabney Coleman also had small roles.
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