Lady-Killer in Trouble
1964 Hungarian film by Viktor Gertler
Lady-Killer in Trouble (Hungarian: Özvegy menyasszonyok) is a 1964 Hungarian comedy crime film directed by Viktor Gertler and starring Sándor Pécsi, Dezső Garas and Mária Mezei. It was shot at the Hunnia Studios in Budapest. The film's sets were designed by the art director László Duba.
Synopsis
A police detective investigating the case of a taxi driver who has disappeared finds no less than six different women claiming to be the vanished man's fiancee.
Cast
Sándor Pécsi as police major Péter Kovács
Dezsö Garas as József Kormos
János Rajz as Pál Kalocsai
Mária Mezei as Marianne
Erzsi Máthé as Zsuzsa
Zsuzsa Gordon as Klári
László Bánhidi as Gál
Éva Vadnai as Tolmács
Vera Szemere as Mrs. Péter Kovács
Irén Sütő as Éva Gajdán
Ilus Vay as Jusztínia
Edit Soós as Ica
Itala Békés as Krisztina
Sándor Szakács as Hadai
Erzsi Pásztor as Etelka
Juci Komlós as Éva Gajdán's boss
Mária Keresztessy as Mrs. Gál
Ilona Dajbukát
Kati Böröndi
Zsuzsa Balogh
Erzsi Galambos
Endre Csonka
László Egri
László Forgács
Pál Keresztes
József Konrád
Géza Márky
István Prókai
Péter Pusztai
Ildikó Sólyom
References
Bibliography
Balski, Grzegorz. Directory of Eastern European Film-makers and Films 1945-1991. Flicks Books, 1992.
Liehm, Mira & Liehm, Antonín J. The Most Important Art: Soviet and Eastern European Film After 1945.
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