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Film Quotes by Walter Slezak

19 quotes
The Spanish Main
Year: 1945

Director:
Frank Borzage
The Spanish Main
Pillery Gow: Oh, let's hang him from the yardarm!
Paree: Bring him head-out on fire!
Pillery Gow: No, no, we got to do this properly. Step by step, limb from limb.
Contessa Francesca: Can't you let him live somehow? Find a way for him to do some useful work?
Don Juan Alvarado: Work? No, Contessa, yours is the cruelest of all suggestions.
-- Walter Slezak in The Spanish Main (1945)
The Spanish Main
Year: 1945

Director:
Frank Borzage
The Spanish Main
Mario Du Billar: I know the man. He'll not rest until he frees the Contessa and Anne Bonney, or is killed in the attempt.
Don Juan Alvarado: The latter alternative is the more likely. And, incidentally, the more satisfactory.
-- Walter Slezak in The Spanish Main (1945)
Come September
Year: 1961

Director:
Robert Mulligan
Come September
Robert L. Talbot: [looking at his villa] Isn't that a new color?
Maurice Clavell: I beg your pardon?
Robert L. Talbot: I said, isn't that a new color?
Maurice Clavell: [chuckles] Houses are like women; The older they get, the more paint they need.
-- Walter Slezak (as Maurice Clavell) in Come September (1961)
Come September
Year: 1961

Director:
Robert Mulligan
Come September
Robert L. Talbot: Mr Clavell!
Maurice Clavell: Sir?
Robert L. Talbot: You are to go with them and you are not to let those girls out of your sight.
Maurice Clavell: Sir, I can't ride a motor scooter.
Robert L. Talbot: Then learn.
Maurice Clavell: I have no sense of balance. I was the only child that ever had to be strapped to his tricycle.
-- Walter Slezak (as Maurice Clavell) in Come September (1961)
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Year: 1957

Director:
Richard Thorpe
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Mike Clark: I want to marry your daughter.
Papa Vittorio Martelli: Sorry I haven't any left.
-- Walter Slezak in Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)
The Spanish Main
Year: 1945

Director:
Frank Borzage
The Spanish Main
Don Juan Alvarado: All I ever hear from you is that every golden minute has 60 golden seconds. Why does it have to have 60 golden seconds? Why can't it have 30 golden seconds? And why do they have to be golden? Why can't they be silver?
-- Walter Slezak in The Spanish Main (1945)
The Spanish Main
Year: 1945

Director:
Frank Borzage
The Spanish Main
Don Juan Alvarado: Commandante, in the future, we will apply the word "beautiful" to all the ladies who have previously appeared on these premises. You will now invent a new word meaning "much more than beautiful", which will be applied exclusively to La Contessa Francesca.
-- Walter Slezak in The Spanish Main (1945)
The Spanish Main
Year: 1945

Director:
Frank Borzage
The Spanish Main
Don Juan Alvarado: I am sure your advice is sound; however, I will ignore it.
-- Walter Slezak in The Spanish Main (1945)
The Spanish Main
Year: 1945

Director:
Frank Borzage
The Spanish Main
Don Juan Alvarado: I promised you 10,000 pieces of eight.
Mario Du Billar: 50,000 was the sum you mentioned, your excellency.
Don Juan Alvarado: 50 was the sum I mentioned, but 10,000 was what I had in mind.
-- Walter Slezak in The Spanish Main (1945)
The Spanish Main
Year: 1945

Director:
Frank Borzage
The Spanish Main
Don Juan Alvarado: My dear child, there is no reason why we shouldn't be married tomorrow.
Contessa Francesca: Tomorrow, your excellency?
Don Juan Alvarado: Well, yesterday, unfortunately, is impossible.
-- Walter Slezak in The Spanish Main (1945)