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Alvin Ganzer is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Assistant Director and Second Unit American born on 27 august 1911

Alvin Ganzer

Alvin Ganzer
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Nationality USA
Birth 27 august 1911
Death 3 january 2009 (at 97 years)

Alvin Ganzer est un réalisateur, producteur et scénariste américain, né le 27 août 1911 à Cold Spring, dans le Minnesota, (États-Unis) et mort le 3 janvier 2009 à Kauai, (Hawaï).

Best films

Going My Way (1944)
(Director)
The Paleface (1948)
(Director)
The Great McGinty (1940)
(Director)

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Hans Dreier
Hans Dreier
(10 films)
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Edith Head
(10 films)
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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Alvin Ganzer (20 films)

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Director

Country Music Holiday, 1h21
Directed by Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Zsa Zsa Gabor
Rating60% 3.003623.003623.003623.003623.00362
The Leather Saint
Directed by Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors John Derek, Paul Douglas, Cesar Romero, Jody Lawrance, Ernest Truex, Robert O. Cornthwaite
Rating58% 2.9151452.9151452.9151452.9151452.915145
Although he is a minister, young Gil Allen likes to work out in Tom Kelly's boxing gym. Gus MacAuliffe, a manager of fighters who doesn't know the young man's true vocation, offers to find him a fight in the ring, but Gil declines.
Elephant Walk, 1h43
Directed by William Dieterle, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Mise en scène d'un éléphant, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch, Abraham Sofaer, Abner Biberman, Rosalind Ivan
Rating62% 3.1471953.1471953.1471953.1471953.147195
Colonial tea planter John Wiley, visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation because it blocks their migrating path. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; by her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; by a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver; and by the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants. The elephants end up destroying the plantation in a stampede along with a fire.
Knock On Wood, 1h43
Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Spy films, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Political films
Actors Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher, David Burns, Leon Askin, Abner Biberman
Rating66% 3.3445853.3445853.3445853.3445853.344585
Jerry Morgan (Kaye) is a ventriloquist who is having trouble with love: just when his relationship with a woman gets around to marriage, his dummy turns jealous and spoils everything. Jerry's manager Marty threatens to quit unless Jerry sees a psychiatrist, Ilse Nordstrom (Zetterling), who tries to discover the source of his problem. The two of them eventually fall in love.
The Girls of Pleasure Island, 1h35
Directed by F. Hugh Herbert, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Don Taylor, Leo Genn, Gene Barry, Elsa Lanchester, Philip Ober, Audrey Dalton
Rating57% 2.8607252.8607252.8607252.8607252.860725
In 1945, Roger Halyard is a stiff-upper-lipped British gentleman who lives on a South Pacific island with his three nubile, naive daughters, Violet, Hester and Gloria. Hoping to shelter the girls from the lascivious advances of the opposite sex, Halyard is thwarted when 1,500 Marines arrive to transform the island into an aircraft landing base. Despite the best efforts of Halyard, his housekeeper Thelma, and Marine Colonel Reade, romance blossoms between the three girls and a trio of handsome leathernecks.
Anything Can Happen, 1h47
Directed by George Seaton, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors José Ferrer, Kim Hunter, Kurt Kasznar, Eugenie Leontovich, Oskar Karlweis, Oscar Beregi, Sr.
Rating61% 3.0960753.0960753.0960753.0960753.096075
The film follows Papashvily from his arrival and initial interview on Ellis Island, through his early jobs on New York's bustling Lower East Side. His friend, Nuri (Kurt Kasznar), who had arrived in New York earlier and speaks English, leads the way, telling Giorgi that he'll help him get an outdoor job with plenty of fresh air. Instead, they find themselves carrying buckets and pouring hot tar on rooftops.
At War with the Army, 1h33
Directed by Hal Walker, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Military humor in film, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mike Kellin, Polly Bergen, Tommy Farrell, Danny Dayton
Rating55% 2.751242.751242.751242.751242.75124
The film is set at a United States Army base in Kentucky at the end of 1944, during World War II.
The Paleface, 1h31
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian, Bobby Watson, Charles Trowbridge
Rating65% 3.296463.296463.296463.296463.29646
Peter "Painless" Potter (Bob Hope) is a dentist of doubtful competence. Out west, after the partner of Calamity Jane (Jane Russell) is killed while trying to discover who's been illegally selling guns to Indians, the cowardly Painless ends up married to Jane, who needs to keep her true identity a secret.
Road to Utopia, 1h30
Directed by Norman Panama, Hal Walker, Melvin Frank, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Douglass Dumbrille, Hillary Brooke, Robert Benchley
Rating70% 3.54553.54553.54553.54553.5455
After the credits we see Sal and Chester Hooton (Lamour and Hope), an old married couple. They are visited by an equally old Duke Johnson (Crosby), and the three reminisce about their previous adventure in the Klondike.
The Stork Club, 1h38
Directed by Hal Walker, Oscar Rudolph, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Betty Hutton, Mae Busch, Barry Fitzgerald, Don DeFore, Andy Russell, Robert Benchley
Rating63% 3.1961853.1961853.1961853.1961853.196185
Judy Peabody saves an old man from drowning. He turns out to be Jerry Bates, "J.B." to his lawyer Curtis, "Pop" to Judy, who mistakenly believes the wealthy old-timer to be poor.
The Unseen
The Unseen (1945)
, 1h20
Directed by Lewis Allen, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Ghost films
Actors Joel McCrea, Gail Russell, Herbert Marshall, Phyllis Brooks, Isobel Elsom, Norman Lloyd
Rating58% 2.9375252.9375252.9375252.9375252.937525
At 11 Crescent Drive in a New England village, an unseen killer strangles a woman. Young Barnaby Fielding witnesses this from his window at 10 Crescent and later retrieves the victim's watch.
Going My Way, 2h10
Directed by Leo McCarey, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Risë Stevens, Frank McHugh, James Brown, James Brown
Rating69% 3.497683.497683.497683.497683.49768
The film follows Father Charles “Chuck” O’Malley (Bing Crosby), an incoming priest from East St. Louis whose unconventional style transforms the parish life of St. Dominic’s Church in New York City.