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Melvin And Howard, directed by Jonathan Demme, from a screenplay by Bo Goldman, opens nationally. A Nevada gas station attendant's mid sixties chance desert encounter with an elderly dishevelled bike rider claiming to be Howard Hughes, comes full circle nine years later when, following Hughes' death, a stranger presents the bumpkin - Melvin Dummar- a will, purportedly written by the reclusive mogul, bequeathing him a whopping $156 million. Demme channeling Preston Sturges. With Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards and Mary Steenbergen.
