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Walter Lang - filmography


  • Snow White And The Three Stooges (1961)
    Starring: Carol Heiss,  Harry Fine,  Joe Derita
    Director: Walter Lang,  Frank Tashlin
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In this family-oriented comedy, Snow White is taken to the woods to be killed at the behest of her evil stepmother and ends up abandoned and alone. Fortunately she stumbles across a charming cottage inhabited by the Three Stooges, and comical fairy-tale chaos ensues.
    1.5 stars out of 5 30% from 3 members
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  • Can-Can (1960)
    Starring: Frank Sinatra,  Shirley MacLaine,  Maurice Chevalier
    Director: Walter Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Cole Porter's Gay Paree musical about the introduction in Montmartre in 1896 of the notorious Can-Can dance, is brought to the screen, filtered through a Rat Pack sensibility. Shirley MacLaine stars as Simone Pistache, the perky and vivacious owner of a Parisian cafe, who, aided by her swingin' ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 8 members
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  • Desk Set on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Katharine Hepburn,  Gig Young
    Director: Walter Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Bunny Watson heads up a research department at the Federal Broadcasting Company, a major, TV network. And she does her job very well, thank you very much. Assigned by the network president to introduce computers into some of the department's functions, Richard Sumner arrives at Bunny's well-run ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 441 members
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  • The King And I on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  Deborah Kerr,  Rita Moreno
    Director: Walter Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Rogers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical, adapted from Margaret Landon's fact-based novel and the 1946 film ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM, makes a spectacularly successful move to the silver screen in the Yul Brynner tour de force THE KING AND I. Brynner, reprising the role he'd polished to perfection ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 6,199 members
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  • Cheaper By The Dozen on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Myrna Loy,  Jeanne Crain,  Clifton Webb
    Director: Walter Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Clifton Webb stars in this lighthearted comedy as a patriarch who has more children than he can count on both hands. Along with his loving wife, played with dry humour by Myrna Loy, Frank Gilbreth must contend with the problems of five fathers. This includes a mass tonsillectomy and the eldest ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 151 members
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  • Sitting Pretty (1948)
    Starring: Robert Young,  Maureen O'Hara,  Clifton Webb
    Director: Walter Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 12 members
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  • State Fair on DVD (1945)
    Starring: Jeanne Crain,  Dana Andrews,  Dick Haymes
    Director: Walter Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In this rousing celebration of love and laughter in America's heartland, each member of the Frake family is out for a different prize when they attend their state fair. Father wants a blue ribbon for his favourite pet pig. First prize, and only first prize, will do for Mom's entry in the pie-baking ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 389 members
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  • Moon Over Miami (1941)
    Starring: Don Ameche,  Betty Grable,  Robert Cummings
    Director: Walter Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Don Ameche and Betty Grable star in this musical remake of the play THREE BLIND MICE. When an inheritance turns out to be worth a fraction of its initial value after taxes, Kay Latimer (Grable) convinces her sister, Barbara (Carole Landis), and her aunt, Susan (Charlotte Greenwood), to spend the ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 4 members
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  • The Blue Bird (1940)
    Starring: Shirley Temple,  Spring Byington,  Nigel Bruce
    Director: Walter Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Shirley Temple stars in this fairy tale about imaginary lands and the true values of kindness and happiness. The journey begins when Mytyl (Temple) captures a unique bird in the royal forest, then refuses to pass it on to her bedridden best friend. That night, Mytyl is visited in a dream by a fairy ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 21 members
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  • The Little Princess on DVD (1939)
    Starring: Shirley Temple,  Richard Green,  Ian Hunter
    Director: William A. Seiter,  Walter Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's popular children's book and stage play, THE LITTLE PRINCESS features one of Shirley Temple's most memorable performances and her first Technicolor appearance. Temple stars as Sara Crewe, a little rich girl who is enrolled in a prestigious boarding school while her ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 458 members
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Walter Lang facts

5 most recent films

Snow White And The Three Stooges - 1.5 stars
Can-Can - 3.0 stars
Desk Set - 3.5 stars
The King And I - 3.5 stars
There's no Business Like Show Business - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Little Princess - 3.5 stars
The King And I - 3.5 stars
Desk Set - 3.5 stars
Cheaper By The Dozen - 3.5 stars
There's no Business Like Show Business - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Snow White And The Three Stooges - 1.5 stars
Moon Over Miami - 2.0 stars
Can-Can - 3.0 stars
Sitting Pretty - 3.0 stars
Call Me Madam - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Shirley Temple - 4 times - show films
Yul Brynner - 3 times - show films
Rita Moreno - 3 times - show films
Alan Mowbray - 3 times - show films
Martin Benson - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

William A. Seiter - 2 times - show films
Frank Tashlin - 1 times - show films