#walter slezak

[citizenscreen]

Judy Garland with Walter Slezak and his daughter Erika on set of THE PIRATE (1948)

#judy garland #walter slezak

[oldshowbiz]

Memoirs of a Thespian

#walter slezak #books #basil rathbone

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

#The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm #Laurence Harvey #Claire Bloom #Karlheinz Böhm #Barbara Eden #Walter Slezak #Oscar Homolka #Yvette Mimieux #Russ Tamblyn #Jim Backus #Beulah Bondi #Terry-Thomas #Buddy Hackett #Henry Levin #George Pal #1962

[gatutor]

Laurence Harvey-Barbara Eden-Karlheinz Böhm-Walter Slezak "El maravilloso mundo de los hermanos Grimm" (The wonderful world of the brothers Grimm) 1962, de Henry Levin, George Pal.

#Barbara Eden #Laurence Harvey #Karlheinz Böhm #Walter Slezak #Henry Levin #George Pal

[byneddiedingo]

Walter Slezak, John Hodiak,Tallulah Bankhead, Heather Angel, Mary Anderson in Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock, 1944)

Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn, Canada Lee. Screenplay: John Steinbeck, Jo Swerling. Cinematography: Glen MacWilliams. Art direction: James Basevi, Maurice Ransford. Film editing: Dorothy Spencer. Music: Hugo Friedhofer. 

Lifeboat has two things going for it: Alfred Hitchcock and Tallulah Bankhead. Otherwise, it could easily have turned into either a routine survival melodrama or, worse, a didactic allegory about the human condition -- elements of both remain. The situation -- a small group of survivors of a merchant marine vessel torpedoed by a German U-boat confront the elements, their own frailties, and the U-boat captain they unwittingly help rescue -- was dreamed up by Hitchcock and was assigned to John Steinbeck to come up with a story. It was then turned into a screenplay by Jo Swerling, with the uncredited help of a number of other hands, including Ben Hecht and Hitchcock's wife, Alma Reville. Steinbeck is said to have hated it, partly because the screenplay was purged of his leftist point of view, but anyone familiar with his fiction can see how the script's avoidance of his tendency to preach strengthened the film. And the casting of Bankhead, in what is virtually her only great screen role, adds a note of sophisticated sass that the melodrama desperately needs. Steinbeck also objected that the character of Joe (Canada Lee), the ship's steward and the only Black survivor, had been turned into a "stock comedy Negro," which is hardly fair: Although there are unpleasant taints of Hollywood racism in the characterization -- Bankhead's character refers to him as "Charcoal" a couple of times -- Joe is generally treated with respect. At one point, when the occupants of the lifeboat decide to put something to a vote, Joe asks, with more than a touch of sad experience behind the question, "Do I get to vote, too?" And when the survivors finally turn in a frenzy on the treacherous German (Walter Slezak), clubbing him to death and drowning him, Joe is the only one who seems to recognize that what they're doing is essentially a lynching; he tries to dissuade Alice (Mary Anderson), the U.S. Army nurse, from joining the assault. (Of course, it's also possible that the studio feared that having a Black man assault a white man would outrage Southern audiences.) While it's not prime Hitchcock, Lifeboat is engaging and entertaining, and a cut above most wartime melodramas, partly because it dares to present the enemy, the German captain, as dangerous, cleverly outwitting and manipulating the Americans and Brits in the boat -- which naturally outraged some of the flag-waving critics.

#Lifeboat #Alfred Hitchcock #Walter Slezak #John Hodiak #Tallulah Bankhead #Heather Angel #Mary Anderson

[letterboxd-loggd]

The Pirate (1948) Vincente Minnelli

July 10th 2022

#the pirate #1948 #vincente minnelli #judy garland #gene kelly #walter slezak #gladys cooper #george zucco

[character-actor-tournament]

Round 1, Match 41

Walter Slezak vs Sam Levene

#walter slezak #sam levene #character actors #old hollywood #tournament poll

[dorawinifredread]

#The Pirate #Gene Kelly #Walter Slezak #Musicals

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Lifeboat (1944) was photographed by Glen MacWilliams, earning him his only Oscar nomination. Glen was born in Saratoga, California, and had 124 cinematography credits from 1918 to a 1966 tv movie.

Glen's other notable credits include The Front Page, King Solomon's Mines, Dressed to Kill, Shock, six episodes of Highway Patrol. four episodes of Wanted: Dead or Alive, Hawaiian Eye (6), 77 Sunset Strip (7), The Untouchables (6), My Favorite Martian, and My Living Doll (26).

#lifeboat #tallulah bankhead #william bendix #john hodiak #canada lee #walter slezak

[genevieveetguy]

- He said "Aren't you going to kill me?" - "Aren't you going to kill me?" What are you gonna do with people like that?

Lifeboat, Alfred Hitchcock (1944)

#Alfred Hitchcock #John Steinbeck #Jo Swerling #Tallulah Bankhead #William Bendix #Walter Slezak #Mary Anderson #John Hodiak #Henry Hull #Heather Angel #Hume Cronyn #Canada Lee #Glen MacWilliams #Hugo Friedhofer #Dorothy Spencer #1944

[ulrichgebert]

Come Sptember, der Erinnerungsfilm für die verstorbene schöne Gina Lollobrigida, die herrlicherweise hier keinen Sinn ergeben muss, weil sie Italienerin ist, fühlt sich durchweg an wie ein Italienurlaub (das ist im wesentlichen auch die Handlung), und ist insofern natürlich völlig angemessen.

#Come September #Gina Lollobrigida #Rock Hudson #Sandra Dee #Bobby Darin #Walter Slezak #Joel Grey #Film gesehen #Robert Mulligan #Nachrufe

[citizenscreen]

Birthday remembrance - Walter Slezak #botd

#walter slezak

[oldshowbiz]

now playing

#walter slezak #virginia mayo #michael callan

[moviemosaics]

Lifeboat

directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1944

#Lifeboat #Alfred Hitchcock #movie mosaics #Walter Slezak #Tallulah Bankhead #William Bendix #Mary Anderson #Hume Cronyn #Henry Hull #Heather Angel #Canada Lee #John Hodiak #William Yetter Jr.

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

#This Land Is Mine #Charles Laughton #Maureen O'Hara #George Sanders #Walter Slezak #Kent Smith #Una O'Connor #Jean Renoir #1943

[alexhorrorfilms]

Lifeboat (Спасательная шлюпка)

Один із найнезвичайніших фільмів Альфреда Хічкока розповідає історію восьми людей, які врятувалися після того, як їхній пароплав утопив німецький підводний човен (дія відбувається під час Другої світової війни).

Майстерне дослідження людської природи, яке стоїть особняком у творчості великого режисера.

#movies #Alfred Hitchcock #world war ii #John Steinbeck #sea #Tallulah Bankhead #Walter Slezak #William Bendix #Hume Cronyn #Canada Lee