Biography: Walter Slezak |
The son of legendary opera star Leo Slezak, Walter Slezak was a medical student before settling into the comfortable position of bank clerk. Slezak was coerced by his friend, actor/director Michael Curtiz, to accept an acting role in Curtiz's 1922... more
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Cast: Orson Welles
Tags: Adventure Sea Adventure Costume Adventure
Length: 94min
This 1972 international production of Treasure Island is one of many film versions of the classic adventure by Robert Louis Stevenson. Kim Burfield plays Jim Hawkins, a young man who works at a pub with his mother (Maria Rohm). When drunken old sailor...
The Mysterious House of Dr. C. (1976)
Cast: Terry-Thomas
Tags: Family Fantasy Children's Fantasy
Length: 88min
Walter Slezak plays Dr. Coppelius in this misleading titled fantasy feature. Not a horror flick as one might assume, The Mysterious House of Dr. C is a respectable adaptation of Ted and JoAnna Kneeland's ballet Coppelia. The non-dancing Slezak plays a...
Length: 97min
The grand ballet ~Coppelia is familiar to most dedicated dance aficionados. This film uses the music and some of the story of the ballet but focuses on the inventor of the marvelous mechanical doll of the story, Dr. Coppelius (played by actor Walter...
The Caper of the Golden Bulls (1967)
Cast: Walter Slezak
Length: 104min
Career bank robber Peter Churchman Stephen Boyd plans to retire from his life of crime and live the good life in this uninspired crime thriller. He is blackmailed by Angela Tresler Giovanna Ralli into pulling off one last heist of some precious jewels...
Tags: Animal Picture Family-Oriented Adventure Adventure Family
Length: 90min
This internationally produced adaptation of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty is essentially a vehicle for Oliver star Mark Lester. The young Lester spends most of the film trying to reclaim his beautiful black horse, which passes through several hands over...
Tags: Musical Comedy Musical Showbiz Comedy
Length: 83min
In this musical comedy, a popular singer and his band find themselves stuck in the Canary Islands. While there a neurotic filmmaker brings his cast and crew to make a film. The singer ends up falling for the leading lady and decides to make a musical...
Cast: Rock Hudson Leslie Caron Charles Boyer Michael Gordon
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance
Length: 105min
A Very Special Favor stars Rock Hudson as a notorious romeo and Leslie Caron as a prudish psychiatrist. At the urging of Caron's lawyer father Charles Boyer, Hudson begins a seduction campaign. Caron resents this intrusion in her private affairs and...
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
Cast: Claire Bloom George Pal
Tags: Children's Fantasy Fairy Tales & Legends Fantasy Family
Length: 134min
This long, 135-minute feature is divided into four different segments, three highlighting fairy tales and the first introducing the two Brothers Grimm. Wilhelm (Laurence Harvey) is the dreamer, and Jacob (Karl Boehm) is the practical one, and between...
Emil and the Detectives (1964)
Cast: Walt Disney
Tags: Crime Mystery Drama Adventure Action Detective Film Adventure Drama
Length: 92min
Erich Kastner's oft-filmed children's story -Emil and the Detectives was given the Disney treatment in 1964. Though the plot is still set in Berlin, the younger characters have been extensively Americanized, none more so than the title character...
Cast: Gina Lollobrigida
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance
Length: 112min
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,...
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