Walter Slezak — Actor (22)
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
director: Charles Lamont actor: Bud Abbott / Lou Costello …
other title: Gianni e Pinotto alla legione straniera / Abbott und Costello als Legionäre …
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid.
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The Caper of the Golden Bulls (1967) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Caper of the Golden Bulls
director: Russell Rouse actor: Stephen Boyd / Yvette Mimieux …
other title: Il carnevale dei ladri / Die Bankräuberbande …
Peter Churchman stopped robbing banks a long time ago and is now living as a wealthy and respected citizen in Pamplona, Spain. But then his former companion Angela appears and blackmails him to help her robbing the Spanish National Bank of Pamplona. He gives in and develops a brilliant plan... Will this be then end of his comfortable life?
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Till We Meet Again (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Till We Meet Again
director: Frank Borzage actor: Ray Milland / Barbara Britton …
other title: L'estrema rinuncia
An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance. The young novice nun Clothilde is interested in him and is willing to help him escape to England, but the pilot must continue his mission undercover by posing as the husband of a different woman.
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
director: Henry Levin / George Pal actor: Laurence Harvey / Karlheinz Böhm …
other title: Avventura nella fantasia / Brødrene Grimms vidunderlige verden …
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting oral-tradition fairy tales to put into print. Their life story is countered with reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."
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This Land Is Mine (1943) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
This Land Is Mine
director: Jean Renoir actor: Charles Laughton / Maureen O'Hara …
other title: Questa terra è mia / Dies ist mein Land …
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
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The Yellow Cab Man (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Yellow Cab Man
director: Jack Donohue actor: Red Skelton / Gloria DeHaven …
other title: L'autista pazzo / Der Unglücksrabe
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. On the day that he meets the lovely Ellen of the Yellow Cab Co., he also meets the crooked lawyer named Creavy. Pirdy is an inventor and when Creavy learns about elastic-glass, his new invention, he makes plans to steal the process. With the help of another con man named Doksteader, and the boys, he will steal this million dollar invention no matter who gets hurt.
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Spy Hunt (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Spy Hunt
director: George Sherman actor: Howard Duff / Märta Torén …
other title: Contraespionaje
Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden a microfilm in the collar of one of the animals. But when the train is derailed in the Swiss Alps and the panthers escape, she is forced to involve him in her mission, which now includes enemy agents hunting the microfilm, the animals, Catherine and Roger.
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Bedtime for Bonzo (1951) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Bedtime for Bonzo
director: Frederick de Cordova actor: Ronald Reagan / Diana Lynn …
other title: Bonzo la scimmia sapiente / Les Aventures de Bonzo
College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.
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Salome, Where She Danced (1945) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Salome, Where She Danced
director: Charles Lamont actor: Yvonne De Carlo / Rod Cameron …
other title: Salomè / Salomé, la embrujadora …
During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawless western town in Arizona, where she uses her charms and dancing skills to transform herself into "Salome" during her dance routines.
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Riff-Raff (1947) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Riff-Raff
director: Ted Tetzlaff actor: Pat O'Brien / Anne Jeffreys …
other title: Riffraff / Conflicto en Panamá …
A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oil fields while he searches for a valuable map hidden in plain sight.
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Sinbad the Sailor (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Sinbad the Sailor
director: Richard Wallace actor: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. / Maureen O'Hara …
other title: Sinbad il marinaio / Simbad, O Marujo …
Daredevil sailor Sinbad embarks on a voyage across the Seven Seas to find the lost riches of Alexander the Great. His first stop is the port of Basra, where his ship is seized and scheduled for auction. In his attempt to win it back, he befriends beautiful concubine Shireen. But when her master, the nefarious Emir, calls her back to duty, Sinbad must interrupt his adventure to save the "Jewel of Persia."
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Come September (1961) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Come September
director: Robert Mulligan actor: Rock Hudson / Gina Lollobrigida …
other title: Torna a settembre / Idílio em Setembro …
Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given up waiting for him and has decided to marry another man. Meanwhile, his sneaky business associate Maurice secretly misappropriates the villa as a hotel while Talbot is away. The current guests of the "hotel" are a group of young American girls.
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Confidentially Connie (1953) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Confidentially Connie
director: Edward Buzzell actor: Van Johnson / Janet Leigh …
other title: La Petite Constance / Cuando llega la cigüeña …
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.
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The Fallen Sparrow (1943) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Fallen Sparrow
director: Richard Wallace actor: John Garfield / Maureen O'Hara …
other title: Il passo del carnefice / Nid d'espions …
Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has committed suicide, and he begins to smell a rat. During his investigation, McKittrick questions three beautiful women, one of whom has a tie to his refugee past. Pursued by Nazi operatives, McKittrick learns of the death of another friend, and begins to suspect the dark Dr. Skaas.
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The Inspector General (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Inspector General
director: Henry Koster actor: Danny Kaye / Walter Slezak …
other title: L'ispettore generale / Generalinspektøren …
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.