The best Walter Slezak’s comedy movies

Walter Slezak

Walter Slezak

03/05/1902- 21/04/1983
Today we present the best Walter Slezak’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Walter Slezak’s movies.
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People Will Talk

People Will Talk
7.3/10
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.

The Inspector General

The Inspector General
6.7/10
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.

The Pirate

The Pirate
6.9/10
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate.

The Princess and the Pirate

The Princess and the Pirate
6.8/10
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 her and hold her for a king's ransom.

Come September

Come September
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/01/1961
  • Character: Maurice Clavell
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.

Once Upon a Honeymoon

Once Upon a Honeymoon
6.4/10
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion

Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/08/1950
  • Character: Sgt. Axmann
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. Bits include Lou's mirage sightings, one a New York newsboy ("they gave me a bad corner").

Emil and the Detectives

Emil and the Detectives
6.1/10
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. Emil must get the money back as it is for his grandmother. While following the thief, Emil runs into Gustav, an enterprising young boy who gathers up all his friends to help Emil find the money. Emil's cousin also gets involved and they get into more trouble than they bargained for when Emil's pickpocket turns out to be mixed up with a couple of notorious bank robbers.

Call Me Madam

Call Me Madam
6.7/10
Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.

Ten Thousand Bedrooms

Ten Thousand Bedrooms
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 03/04/1957
  • Character: Papa Martelli
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.

A Very Special Favor

A Very Special Favor
6.2/10
The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter.

Wonderful Life

Wonderful Life
5.3/10
Cliff Richard and The Shadows are hired to star in a movie shot amid the lush tropical scenery of the Canary Islands. A sunny seaside spectacular, filled with romance, excitement and high spirits - not to mention a dozen musical numbers.

Bedtime for Bonzo

Bedtime for Bonzo
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 05/04/1951
  • Character: Prof. Hans Neumann
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.

Confidentially Connie

Confidentially Connie
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 12/03/1953
  • Character: Emil Spangenberg
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.

Riff-Raff

Riff-Raff
6.8/10
A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oilfields when he hides a valuable map in plain sight.

The Yellow Cab Man

The Yellow Cab Man
6.4/10
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.

The Caper of the Golden Bulls

The Caper of the Golden Bulls
6.1/10
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?

Almenrausch und Edelweiss

Almenrausch und Edelweiss
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/03/1928
  • Character: Mentel

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