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Walter Slezak - what members say

The Inspector General review by A customer from Birmingham, England

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 review by Savage from London, England

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

The Bridges Of Madison County on DVD (1995)
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Annie Corley, Walter Slezak
Director: Clint Eastwood
Certificate:
The brief, illicit love affair between an Iowa housewife and a post-middle-age freelance photographer is chronicled in this powerful romance based on the best-selling novella by Robert James Waller. The story begins as globetrotting National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid journeys to ..read more »

69% from 7,924 members

Treasure Island on DVD (1972)
Starring: Orson Welles, Walter Slezak, Lionel Stander
Director: John Hough
Certificate:
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Of all the stories of sea and ships and daring desperate men, none can compare with the adventure of Treasure Island.

52% from 181 members

Black Beauty on DVD (1971)
Starring: Mark Lester, Patrick Mower, Walter Slezak
Director: James Hill
Certificate:
Anna Sewell's classic tale of the love shared by a young boy and his horse. The two are parted, but are eventually reunited after the horse has changed owners numerous times.

42% from 921 members

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Karlheinz Bohm, Claire Bloom
Director: Henry Levin
Certificate:
The story of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, and three of their stories

59% from 14 members
Currently unavailable

Come September (1961)
Starring: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee
Director: Robert Mulligan
Certificate:
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 »

65% from 301 members
Not currently released

The Miracle (1959)
Starring: Carroll Baker, Roger Moore, Walter Slezak
Director: Irving Rapper
Certificate:
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 »

52% from 5 members
Currently unavailable

People Will Talk on DVD (1951)
Starring: Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Certificate:
A lovely movie featuring Cary Grant in one of his more inscrutable roles as an angel of mercy to the sick, recalling his work in THE BISHOP'S WIFE. PEOPLE WILL TALK focuses on Dr. Praetorius, a non-traditional doctor whose patients and medical students love him, while his success spurs the jealousy ..read more »

64% from 443 members

The Inspector General on DVD (1949)
Starring: Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Elsa Lanchester
Director: Henry Koster
Certificate:
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Set in the 1800s an illiterate stooge, from a travelling show, wanders into a strange town in Russia and is mistaken for the dreaded Inspector General. As they are unwilling to admit to tax dodges, they try to get him out of the way by killing him...

59% from 392 members

The Pirate (1948)
Starring: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Certificate:
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 »

69% from 40 members
Currently unavailable

Sinbad The Sailor on DVD (1947)
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak
Director: Richard Wallace
Certificate:
In the RKO swashbuckler SINBAD THE SAILOR, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. nostalgically emulates his famous father. The first seven voyages of Sinbad have come and gone: now he is on an eighth mission, in search of the island where Alexander the Great allegedly hid his treasure. Participants in the ..read more »

64% from 39 members

Cornered on DVD (1945)
Starring: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Certificate:
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 »

60% from 15 members

Lifeboat on DVD (1944)
Starring: William Bendix, Tullulah Bankhead, Walter Slezak
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Certificate:
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 »

71% from 871 members

This Land Of Mine on DVD (1943)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders
Director: Jean Renoir
Certificate:
Albert Lory is a teacher at a school in German-occupied France. He is a coward, but he is drawn into the actions of the resistance. Arrested by the Germans because of a murder, the German officers promise him freedom, if he is willing to collaborate with them against France.

67% from 125 members

Once upon a Honeymoon (1942)
Starring: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Walter Slezak
Director: Leo McCarey
Certificate:
An American correspondent is on the trail of a baron about to marry an American stripper impersonating a society girl.

50% from 14 members
Currently unavailable

Michael (2 discs) on DVD (1924)
Starring: Walter Slezak, Max Auzinger
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Certificate:
A drama based on the 1902 novel written by Herman Bang. An elderly artist becomes obsessed with his model, Michael.

60% from 251 members

The Young Ones / Wonderful Life on DVD
Starring: Cliff Richard, Robert Morley, Carole Gray
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Certificate:
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 »

63% from 576 members

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
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm - 3.0 stars
Come September - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Lifeboat - 3.5 stars
The Bridges Of Madison County - 3.5 stars
This Land Of Mine - 3.5 stars
Come September - 3.5 stars
People Will Talk - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Miracle - 2.0 stars
Once upon a Honeymoon - 2.5 stars
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm - 3.0 stars
Cornered - 3.0 stars
Sinbad The Sailor - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

William Bendix - 3 times - show films
Tullulah Bankhead - 3 times - show films
Alan Hale - 2 times - show films
Cary Grant - 2 times - show films
Gene Lockhart - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alfred Hitchcock - 3 times - show films
Sidney J. Furie - 2 times - show films
John Hough - 2 times - show films
Henry Koster - 2 times - show films
Vincente Minnelli - 1 times - show films