Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau stars as a New York transit cop who must keep gunmen who've hijacked a subway car from killing hostages if their $1,000,000 ransom demand is not met within an hour.

Naughty Dennis Mitchell, a mischievous five-year-old rascal, is dedicated to making his forbearing next-door neighbor George Wilson's life miserable, even though he really doesn't mean it. But now that school is out for the summer, he has all the time in the world to channel his overbearingly excessive energy to his beloved pensioner who only wants to be left alone with his garden. Meanwhile, a tattered thief visits the town. Undoubtedly, Dennis only...

Walter Matthau and Jill Clayburgh star in this dramatic comedy that centers around the appointment of the first woman to the U.S. Supreme Court. She is aggressive, witty, magnetic-and an arch-conservative. He is wry, opinionated and roundly liberal. One hundred and one men have preceded the new female justice to seats on the bench of the nation's highest court, but now it's eight men and her. All unanimously accept their new colleague-except Matthau,...

The unforgettable songs and lavish production numbers in this classic musical, directed by the legendary Gene Kelly, reach glorious heights. Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau star in the charming tale of Dolly Levi (Streisand), a New York matchmaker who falls in love with a wealthy bachelor from Yonkers named Horace (Matthau).

Grumpy old men. Neighborhood curmudgeons' long-running feud becomes an all-out rivalry when an attractive widow moves into the house across the street. Grumpier old men. Grumpy old men become grumpier in this sequel as a newcomer plans to change the town's bait shop into a restaurant.

Henry Graham is a man with a problem: he has run through his entire inheritance and is completely unequipped to provide for himself. His childhood guardian, Uncle Harry, refuses to give him a dime, so Henry devises a plan with the help of his imaginative butler to make his money the old-fashioned way, he can marry it.

A chronicle of the rise and fall of Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes, a boisterous entertainer discovered in an Arkansas drunk tank by Marcia Jeffries, a local radio producer with ambitions of her own. His charisma and cunning soon shoot him to the heights of television stardom and political demagoguery, forcing Marcia to grapple with the manipulative, reactionary monster she has created. Directed by Elia Kazan, this incisive satire features an extraordinary...

A woman, about to divorce her husband, finds that he has been murdered after converting all of their fortune into cash. Numerous people are searching for the money, which he apparently stole, and everyone assumes she must know where the money is hidden.