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Peter Lorre
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Peter Lorre - what members say
review by from WHITSTABLE
3 October 2003
review by from Reading England
Play it again Sam! 16 December 2004
review by from London, England
Golden Age Hollywood 18 January 2004
Peter Lorre - filmography
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Fantastic Voyage
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Peter Lorre, Robert Sterling
Director: Richard Fleischer
Certificate: 
Shrunk to microscopic size, an elite scientific and medical team enters the bloodstream of an ailing scientist in a desperate effort to save his life. Battling the body's incredible defenses, the crew must complete their mission before time runs out.
 
67%
from 773 members
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Torn Curtain
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Certificate: 
TORN CURTAIN was Alfred Hitchcock's 50th film and signals a return to the espionage-romance theme the director showcased in such films as SECRET AGENT and THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH. Hitchcock created a distinct look for the film, subduing lighting and gauzing the lens to give a more natural, less ..read more »
61%
from 1,698 member
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The Raven
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
Director: Roger Corman
Certificate: 
Although Roger Corman narrowly managed to avoid self-mockery in his pulpy, flamboyant adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe tales, it appears that the director chose this opportunity to let loose with outright parody; the result is a wonderfully entertaining romp with tongue planted firmly in cheek. The ..read more »
63%
from 719 members
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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas
Director: Richard Fleischer
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This 1954 Disney version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea represented the studio's costliest and most elaborate American-filmed effort to date. Kirk Douglas plays a trouble-shooting 19th century seaman, trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. ..read more »
63%
from 1,783 member
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Beat the Devil
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida
Director: John Huston
Certificate:
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BEAT THE DEVIL is a whimsical parody of THE MALTESE FALCON and other 1940's detective movies in which Bogart so often starred (and John Huston directed). The film tells of the exploits of a group of travelers on a steamboat, each of whom hope to carry off a huge swindle in the uranium fields of ..read more »
58%
from 571 members
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Quicksand
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates
Director: Irving Pichel
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Mickey Rooney stars opposite the inimitable Peter Lorre in this gem of a noir. Rooney plays a mechanic named Dan, a naive young man who fancies himself something of a ladies man. He begins his descent into the world of crime when he falls for a blonde named Vera (Jeanne Cagney), whom he promises an ..read more »
56%
from 57 members
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My Favourite Brunette
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre
Director: Elliott Nugent
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MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE, a spoof of the hardboiled detective genre. Hope plays a baby photographer who gets mixed up with gangsters after he pretends to be a private detective. Dorothy Lamour costars as the mysterious femme fatale, and horror legends Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney turn in hilariously ..read more »
60%
from 362 members
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The Chase
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Robert Cummings, Michele Morgan, Steve Cochran
Director: Arthur Ripley
Certificate:
Chuck Scott lands himself a job as the chauffeur of local gangster Eddie Roman. When he realises that he treats his wife with disdain, however, Scott's loyalty is switched as he helps her escape from her miserable life...
48%
from 71 members
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The Beast With Five Fingers
(1946)
Starring: Peter Lorre, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Florey
Director: Robert Florey
Certificate: 
An invalid concert pianist dies, leaving a will that does not include his personal secretary Hilary Cummins (Peter Lorre) as a beneficiary. Furious, the left-out yes-man cuts off a hand from the corpse and plots revenge. Unfortunately for Hilary, the hand inherits a life of its own and relentlessly ..read more »
50%
from 3 members
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Arsenic and Old Lace
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson
Director: Frank Capra
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A drama critic discovers that his family are mad on the eve of his wedding. His aunts have hidden thirteen bodies in the cellar and the police are hunting for his brother who has also committed murder. Can he keep it all a secret from the rest of the world....?
72%
from 4,747 members
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Casablanca - Blu-ray
(1943)
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Joy Page, Leonid Kinskey
Director: Michael Curtiz
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The classic story of the owner of a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca and of the return of his former lover who is now a member of the Resistance. Based on a play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.
83%
from 629 members
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Casablanca
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Joy Page, Leonid Kinskey
Director: Michael Curtiz
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The classic story of the owner of a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca and of the return of his former lover who is now a member of the Resistance. Based on a play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.
76%
from 31,051 members
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The Maltese Falcon
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet
Director: John Huston
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Hard-drinking private eye Sam Spade sleuths the backyard of San Francisco in search of an elusive black bird statuette while evading the setups of three disparate miscreants: the duplicitous Brigid, the perfumed Mr. Cairo, and the scheming Fat Man. Huston's brilliant directorial debut is aided by ..read more »
73%
from 11,870 members
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Stranger on the Third Floor
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet
Director: Boris Ingster
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A young reporter, Mike Ward (John McGuire) stumbled upon a murder victim and identifies
a nervous cabbie (Elisha Cook Jr) as the person he saw previously arguing with the dead man. On the strength of Mike’s testimony, the cabbie is convicted. Mike however is haunted by the the knowledge that he ..read more »
60%
from 50 members
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Mr Moto's Last Warning
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Peter Lorre, Ricardo Cortez, John Carradine
Director: Norman Foster
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A Japanese man claiming to be Mr Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments. The dead man was his colleague, ..read more »
55%
from 83 members
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
on DVD
(1934)
Starring: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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The first film version of The Man Who Knew too Much proved to be the international breakthrough film for British director Alfred Hitchcock, transforming him from merely a talented domestic filmmaker to a worldwide household name. While vacationing in Switzerland, Britons Leslie Banks and Edna Best ..read more »
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from 1,642 member
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M - Blu-ray
(1931)
Starring: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Inge Landgut
Director: Fritz Lang
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In Fritz Lang's startling and exquisite film M, fear stalks the streets of Berlin in the form of a serial child murderer whose grisly accomplishments are so heinous even the criminal minds of the underworld want him dead. Filmed in post-Weimar Germany during the infancy of the Nazi state, this tale ..read more »
77%
from 574 members
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on DVD
(1931)
Starring: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke
Director: Fritz Lang
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Fritz Lang's classic early talkie crime melodrama is set in 1931 Berlin. The police are anxious to capture an elusive child murderer (Peter Lorre), and they begin rounding up every criminal in town. The underworld leaders decide to take the heat off their activities by catching the child killer ..read more »
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from 4,729 members
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Mr. District Attorney
on DVD
Starring: Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Peter Lorre
Director: William Morgan
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When Harvard Law School graduate P. Cadwallader Jones (Dennis O'Keefe) bungles his first assignment
in the D.A.'s office, he is next assigned the tedious job of reviewing the closed case of a crooked city official (Peter Lorre) who vanished with a stolen $100,000.
The cold case suddenly gets hot ..read more »
55%
from 2 members
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Peter Lorre facts
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... the end when the story comes full circle to revisit one of the opening scenes. Peter Lorre is the undoubted star of the film - he plays the part of Abbot, the chief baddy...
