Cast: Walter Slezak

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Walter Slezak. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


This Land is Mine

1943 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Hara · George Sanders · Walter Slezak

Synopsis A mild-mannered schoolteacher in a Nazi occupied town during WWII finds himself being torn between collaboration and resistance.

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

Lifeboat

1944 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Tallulah Bankhead · John Hodiak · William Bendix · Hume Cronyn

Synopsis 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...

7.3

5K votes

7.3

5K votes

Mikaël

1924 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany

6.9

309 votes

6.9

309 votes

The Pirate

1948 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Judy Garland · Gene Kelly · Walter Slezak · Gladys Cooper

Synopsis When Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne appeared in S. N. Behrmann's The Pirate on Broadway, there were no musical numbers whatsoever. But with Gene Kelly and Judy Garland in the leading roles of the 1948 filmization of The Pirate, the...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

People Will Talk

1951 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Cary Grant · Jeanne Crain · Finlay Currie · Hume Cronyn

Synopsis Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson. Fuel is added to the...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Born to Kill

1947 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Claire Trevor · Lawrence Tierney · Walter Slezak · Phillip Terry

Synopsis In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy. A woman whose divorce has just come through finds the bodies but says nothing to the police; she's leaving town and doesn't want to be...

6.7

611 votes

6.7

611 votes

Direction Henry Levin · George Pal

Cast Laurence Harvey · Karlheinz Böhm · Claire Bloom · Walter Slezak

Synopsis Big-budget fantasy based very loosely on the Grimm Brothers' lives and three of their stories: "The Dancing Princesses," "The Cobbler and the Elves," and "The Singing Bone." Good, fun Puppetoon scenes, but leaves much else to be desired. A megawatt...

6.6

583 votes

6.6

583 votes

Riffraff

1947 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast Pat O'Brien · Anne Jeffreys · Walter Slezak · Percy Kilbride

Synopsis A plane takes off from Peru (in a long no-dialogue scene) in a storm with two passengers; it lands in Panama with one. The missing man had valuable oil-location maps; everyone who is after them must deal with Dan Hammer,...

6.3

31 votes

6.3

31 votes

6.2

1K votes

Cornered

1945 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Dick Powell · Walter Slezak · Micheline Cheirel · Nina Vale

Synopsis On being demobbed at the end of the war, Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard returns to France to discover who ordered the killing of a group of Resistence fighters including his new bride. He identifies Vichy collaborator Marcel Jarnac, who is...

6.1

248 votes

6.1

248 votes

6.1

803 votes

The Fallen Sparrow

1943 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast John Garfield · Maureen O'Hara · Walter Slezak · Patricia Morison

Synopsis A former Spanish Civil War prisoner, John McKittrick arrives in New York to find the truth behind the death of his friend Louie Lepetino. He finds himself being chased by Nazi agents who want an item he has brought back...

6.1

174 votes

6.1

174 votes

Once Upon a Honeymoon

1942 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Cary Grant · Ginger Rogers · Walter Slezak · Albert Dekker

Synopsis At the start of WWII, Katie O'Hara, an American burlesque girl intent on social climbing, marries Austrian Baron Von Luber. Pat O'Toole, an American radio reporter, sees this as a chance to investigate Von Luber, who is suspected of having...

6.0

563 votes

6.0

563 votes

The Spanish Main

1945 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Paul Henreid · Maureen O'Hara · Walter Slezak · Binnie Barnes

Synopsis A raging storm shipwrecks a Dutch crew on an island, where a Spanish dictator forces some of them into slavery. Others (including the captain) flee, and out of spite attack a Spanish ship, which carries the dictator's lovely fiancee! The...

6.0

698 votes

6.0

698 votes

The Princess and the Pirate

1944 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction David Butler · Sidney Lanfield

Cast Bob Hope · Virginia Mayo · Walter Brennan · Walter Slezak

Synopsis Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, her ship is attacked by pirates who know her identity and plan to kidnap...

5.9

350 votes

5.9

350 votes

Treasure Island

1972 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Hough · Andrea Bianchi · Antonio Margheriti

Cast Orson Welles · Kim Burfield · Walter Slezak · Rik Battaglia

Synopsis Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.

5.8

633 votes

5.8

633 votes

White Witch Doctor

1953 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Susan Hayward · Robert Mitchum · Walter Slezak · Mashood Ajala

Synopsis Ellen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native peoples. Lonni Douglas, an animal wrangler and fortune hunter, agrees to take her upriver, despite his misgivings about her suitability for Africa....

5.8

236 votes

5.8

236 votes

The Inspector General

1949 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Danny Kaye · Walter Slezak · Barbara Bates · Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis 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...

5.7

371 votes

5.7

371 votes