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  • The Inspector General
  • The Inspector General review by A customer from Birmingham, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars The Ultimate Danny Kaye experience 15 July 2004
    ...film justice with some good performances from both Gene Lockhart(the Mayor) and Walter Slezak(Yakov)....   Read customer review
  • Michael
  • Michael review by Savage from London, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars Half good; half guff 30 March 2006
    ...ho made the awesome 'Haxan') who conceives an amour fou for his model, Michael (Walter Slezak, in the pre-Hollywood days when he hadn't neglected his handsome lessons). Eve...   Read customer review

Walter Slezak - filmography


  • Black Beauty on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Mark Lester,  Patrick Mower,  Walter Slezak
    Director: James Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    One of several film versions of Anna Sewell's classic children's novel, in which a black horse is passed from one master to another, encountering harsh treatment along the way. Meanwhile, its original owner (Mark Lester) endeavours to take it into his loving care once more.
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 950 members
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  • Black Beauty - Blu-ray (1971)
    Starring: Mark Lester,  Patrick Mower,  Walter Slezak
    Director: James Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    One of several film versions of Anna Sewell's classic children's novel, in which a black horse is passed from one master to another, encountering harsh treatment along the way. Meanwhile, its original owner (Mark Lester) endeavours to take it into his loving care once more.
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 14 members
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  • The Young Ones on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Cliff Richard,  Robert Morley,  Carole Gray
    Director: Sidney J. Furie
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The Young Ones When aspiring young pop singer Nicky Black (Cliff Richard) learns that his local youth club is to be demolished by his millionaire tycoon father (Robert Morley), he and his friends decide to stage a variety show to buy the lease. But as they begin jamming the airwaves with pirate ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 605 members
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  • Come September (1961)
    Starring: Walter Slezak,  Rock Hudson,  Sandra Dee
    Director: Robert Mulligan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Rock Hudson stars in this frothy romantic comedy as filthy-rich American Robert Talbot. Talbot owns an Italian villa, where he traditionally stays only one month out of the year (September), but when Talbot suddenly decides to show up in July, Talbot's major overseer Maurice (Walter Slezak) is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 309 members
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  • The Miracle (1959)
    Starring: Carroll Baker,  Roger Moore,  Walter Slezak
    Director: Irving Rapper
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    During the Napoleonic era, in Spain, a young postulant falls in love with a handsome British soldier who is recovering with others of his regiment after being wounded. Before leaving, he asks her to leave the convent and marry him. The postulant, devoted to the statue of the Virgin Mary, asks her ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 6 members
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  • People Will Talk on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Walter Slezak,  Cary Grant,  Finlay Currie
    Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Classic drama starring Cary Grant as Dr. Praetorius, an unorthodox medical professor at a sedate midwestern college who seems more interested in the human soul than the cold facts of the human body. Praetorius falls in love with one of his students, an unmarried pregnant girl (Jeanne Crain). At the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 471 members
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  • The Pirate (1948)
    Starring: Gene Kelly,  Walter Slezak,  Judy Garland
    Director: Vincente Minnelli
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    On a Caribbean isle in the early 19th century, sheltered young Manuela comes to believe that traveling troubadour Serafin is in reality "Mack the Black," a notorious pirate. Serafin realizes that the surest way to win Manuela's heart is to impersonate the romantic buccaneer, and this is what he ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 54 members
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  • Sinbad The Sailor on DVD (1947)
    Starring: Anthony Quinn,  Jane Greer,  Walter Slezak
    Director: Richard Wallace
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Classic adventure film starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Maureen O'Hara. Sinbad the Sailor (Fairbanks Jr.) and his friend, Abbu (George Tobias), are in search of Alexander the Great's hidden treasure on a tropical island. In the process, they save an abandoned boat, make acquaintances with Shireen ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 58 members
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  • Born To Kill on DVD (1947)
    Starring: Walter Slezak,  Claire Trevor,  Elisha Cook Jr Jr.
    Director: Robert Wise
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Robert Wise directs this 1940s film noir starring Claire Trevor and Lawrence Tierney. Despite his winning charm, Sam Wild (Tierney) is a rage-prone killer. He marries heiress Georgia Staples (Audrey Long) for her fortune but her half-sister, Helen Brent (Trevor), becomes wise to Sam's murderous ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 23 members
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  • Cornered on DVD (1945)
    Starring: Dick Powell,  Walter Slezak,  Micheline Cheirel
    Director: Edward Dmytryk
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The war's over but ex-POW Lt. Lawrence Gerard (Dick Powell) has a score to settle and he doesn't mean to do things by the book. His bride was in the French resistance; she was one of fifty freedom fighters murdered by shadowy Vichy collaborator Marcel Jarnac. People tell him that Jarnac's dead ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 29 members
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  • The Spanish Main on DVD (1945)
    Starring: Antonio Moreno,  Binnie Barnes,  Ian Keith
    Director: Frank Borzage
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Swashbuckling romantic adventure starring Paul Henreid and Maureen O'Hara. Shipwrecked sea captain Laurent Van Horn (Henreid) and his crew are sentenced to death by crooked govenor Don Alvarado (Walter Slezak) on the Spanish settlement of Cartagena. They manage to break free from jail and, by way ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 18 members
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  • Lifeboat (1944)
    Starring: Tullulah Bankhead,  Walter Slezak,  William Bendix
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Seeking a creative challenge after several years' worth of fairly elaborate melodramas, director Alfred Hitchcock stages all of the action in Lifeboat in one tiny boat, adrift in the North Atlantic. The boat holds eight survivors of a Nazi torpedo attack: sophisticated magazine writer/photographer ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 953 members
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  • This Land Of Mine on DVD (1943)
    Starring: Charles Laughton,  Philip Merivale,  Una O'Connor
    Director: Jean Renoir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    WWII drama from the great French director, Jean Renoir. Charles Laughton plays Albert Lory, a cowardly teacher at a school in occupied France who is held responsible by locals for the execution of a resistance fighter Paul Martin (Kent Smith), the brother of fellow teacher Louise Martin (Maureen ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 172 members
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Walter Slezak facts

5 most recent films

The Bridges Of Madison County - 3.5 stars
Treasure Island - 2.5 stars
Black Beauty - 2.0 stars
Black Beauty - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Wonderful Life - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Pirate - 3.5 stars
Lifeboat - 3.5 stars
The Bridges Of Madison County - 3.5 stars
This Land Of Mine - 3.5 stars
Come September - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Black Beauty - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Once upon a Honeymoon - 2.5 stars
The Miracle - 3.0 stars
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm - 3.0 stars
The Spanish Main - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Susan Hampshire - 3 times - show films
Maureen O'Hara - 3 times - show films
Cliff Richard - 3 times - show films
John Nettleton - 2 times - show films
Danny Kaye - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alfred Hitchcock - 3 times - show films
Sidney J. Furie - 3 times - show films
Henry Koster - 2 times - show films
John Hough - 2 times - show films
James Hill - 2 times - show films