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Tag Archives: Walter Slezak
Bedtime for Bonzo (1951) Frederick De Cordova, Ronald Reagan, Diana Lynn, Walter Slezak
Professor Peter Boyd’s engagement to the Dean’s daughter is upset by the revelation that his father was a habitual convict. Read More »
The Pirate (1948) Vincente Minnelli, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak
It is the year 1830. In the Spanish Main, local beauty Manuela Alva, is living on the island of Calvados Read More »
Black Beauty (1971) James Hill, Mark Lester, Walter Slezak, Peter Lee Lawrence
When farmer Evan’s mare has a fine son, he promises the black stallion to his son Joe. The youngster enjoy growing up as playmates. Read More »
White Witch Doctor (1953) Henry Hathaway, Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Walter Slezak
Ellen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native peoples. Read More »
Born to Kill (1947) Robert Wise, Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak
In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy; it may not be the first time. Read More »
Emil and the Detectives (1964) Peter Tewksbury, Walter Slezak, Bryan Russell, Roger Mobley
When Emil travels by bus to Berlin to visit his grandmother and his cousin, his money is stolen by a crook who specializes in digging tunnels. Read More »
Riff-Raff (1947) Ted Tetzlaff, Pat O’Brien, Walter Slezak, Anne Jeffreys
A plane takes off from Peru (in a long no-dialogue scene) in a storm with two passengers; it lands in Panama with one. Read More »
Cornered (1945) Edward Dmytryk, Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel
On being demobbed at the end of the war, Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard returns to France to discover who ordered the killing Read More »
The Miracle (1959) Irving Rapper, Gordon Douglas, Carroll Baker, Roger Moore, Walter Slezak
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. Read More »
Wonderful Life (1964) Sidney J. Furie, Cliff Richard, Walter Slezak, Susan Hampshire, Musical, Romance
A group of (literally) drifting popsters find themselves involved in a grim sand-and-sandals desert movie. They reckon a few song-and-dance numbers would liven things up. Read More »
Michael (1924) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Walter Slezak, Max Auzinger, Nora Gregor, Drama, Romance
Mikaël is an artist who rises as his teacher, the aging Zoret, falls. Zoret gives Mikaël his start, and their relationship is sexual as well. Read More »
Till We Meet Again (1944) Frank Borzage, Ray Milland, Barbara Britton, Walter Slezak, Drama, War
John, an American pilot crashes in France and must get to the underground before the Nazis can capture him. Read More »
The Yellow Cab Man (1950) Jack Donohue, Red Skelton, Gloria DeHaven, Walter Slezak, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. Read More »
Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock, Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, Walter Slezak, Thriller, War
In the Atlantic during WWII, a ship and a German U-boat are involved in a battle and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the boats. They are from a variety of backgrounds: an international journalist, a rich businessman, the radio operator, a nurse, a steward, a sailor and an engineer with communist tendencies. Trouble starts when they pull a man out of the water who turns out to be from the U-boat.
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