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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
    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.
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 921 members
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  • Come September (1961)
    Starring: Rock Hudson,  Gina Lollobrigida,  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 301 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 »
    2 stars out of 5 52% from 5 members
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  • People Will Talk on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Jeanne Crain,  Finlay Currie
    Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 443 members
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  • The Inspector General on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Danny Kaye,  Walter Slezak,  Elsa Lanchester
    Director: Henry Koster
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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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...
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 392 members
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  • The Pirate (1948)
    Starring: Judy Garland,  Gene Kelly,  Walter Slezak
    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 69% from 40 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 60% from 15 members
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  • Lifeboat on DVD (1944)
    Starring: William Bendix,  Tullulah Bankhead,  Walter Slezak
    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 871 members
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  • This Land Of Mine on DVD (1943)
    Starring: Charles Laughton,  Maureen O'Hara,  George Sanders
    Director: Jean Renoir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 125 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
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