7 Movies Starring Dick Van Dyke

Bye Bye Birdie

Bye Bye Birdie

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1963-05-27

Languages:

English, Russian, Cantonese

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (5354 Reviews)

Director:

George Sidney

Cast:

Writer:

Michael Stewart (book)

Irving Brecher (screen play)

Fullplot:

Conrad Birdie is the biggest rock & roll star of the 60's ever to be drafted. Aspiring chemist and song writer Albert is convinced he can make his fortune and marry his girlfriend Rosie if he gets Conrad on the Ed Sullivan show to kiss a high school girl goodbye. Albert's mother will do anything to break him up with Rosie. Kim and Hugo, the high school steadies, live in Sweet Apple, Ohio where most of the action takes place.

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1964-09-11

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

139 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (96120 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Bill Walsh (screenplay)

Don DaGradi (screenplay)

P.L. Travers (based on: The "Mary Poppins" books by)

Fullplot:

The movie combines songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who flies in with her umbrella in response to the request of the Banks children and proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers.

The Art of Love

The Art of Love

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1965-07-08

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (374 Reviews)

Director:

Norman Jewison

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Richard Alan Simmons (story)

William Sackheim (story)

Carl Reiner

Fullplot:

Painter Paul Sloan feels he's a failure, since nobody will buy his paintings. His art dealer informs him, that the works of an artist become much more wanted and valuable if the artist is dead. Therefore, Paul, together with his friend Casey Barnett, plans to fake his own suicide. However, it starts looking like Casey has murdered Paul and when Casey starts making a move for Paul's fiancèe, he decides to get revenge. However, Paul falls in love with Nikki, who has also tried to commit suicide.

Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.

Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1966-07-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

(834 Reviews)

Director:

Byron Paul

Cast:

Writer:

Walt Disney (story)

Don DaGradi (screenplay)

Bill Walsh (screenplay)

Daniel Defoe (novel)

Fullplot:

Lt. Robin Crusoe is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house, finds an abandoned submarine with lots of gadgets that he can use, and also finds a marooned chimp from the US Space program and a native girl named Wednesday who was exiled by her father. Wednesday thinks Crusoe wants to marry her, and when her father arrives on the island to collect her and Crusoe refused to marry her, chaos ensues.

Divorce American Style

Divorce American Style

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1967-06-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

109 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (1129 Reviews)

Director:

Bud Yorkin

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Kaufman (story)

Norman Lear (screenplay)

Fullplot:

After 17 years, things have got too predictable and stale. They argue, they visit a marriage counselor, Richard (drunk) visits a prostitute. They split up. After meeting other people, they are re-united at a night club where they realize that their marriage was better than their divorce.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1968-12-18

Languages:

English, German, French, Latin

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

144 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (27432 Reviews)

Director:

Ken Hughes

Cast:

Writer:

Roald Dahl (screenplay)

Ian Fleming (novel)

Ken Hughes (screenplay)

Richard Maibaum (additional dialogue)

Fullplot:

An eccentric professor invents wacky machinery but can't seem to make ends meet. When he invents a revolutionary car, a foreign government becomes interested in it and resorts to skulduggery to get their hands on it.

Night at the Museum

Night at the Museum

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-12-22

Languages:

English, Italian, Hebrew

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (209185 Reviews)

Director:

Shawn Levy

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Ben Garant (screenplay)

Thomas Lennon (screenplay)

Robert Ben Garant (screen story)

Thomas Lennon (screen story)

Milan Trenc (book)

Fullplot:

In New York, unemployed and divorced Larry Daley is a complete loser. His son Nick is very disappointed with his father who is going to be evicted. Larry accepts the job of night watchman in the Museum of Natural History and takes the place of three old security guards that have just retired in order to raise some money and pay his bills. On his first shift, Larry soon realizes that everything at the museum is not as it seems as the statues begin to come to life after the sun sets. The Museum transforms into complete chaos with the inexperienced Larry in charge as he learns that an old Egyptian stone that came to the Museum in 1950 brings these statues to life until dawn. When Larry brings his son to spend a night with him, the three old guards break into the Museum to try to steal the magical stone. Larry organizes all the historic characters to help him stop the criminals and save the museum.

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