AFS Kicks Off Hitchcock Before Hollywood Series

April 4 film includes tea, vintage records, and themed photo booth

"...And then there is German refugee Peter Lorre, in his first English-speaking role, playing the placid-featured..."

April 2, 2019 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Ghost Stories

Three very British tales of terror.

"...for over 50 years. Whether it’s Vincent Price and Peter Lorre in 1962’s Tales of Terror, the sumptuous visuals..."

May 4, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...Two giants of cinema get special nods, starting with Peter Sellers, Scene Stealer, followed by Hitchcock Week's celebration of..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

St. Vincent Price

Victoria Price celebrates her father's legacy

"...as his Saturday afternoon monster matinee contemporaries – apologies, Basil Rathbone, Peter Lorre, and, uh, Rondo Hatton! – begin to fade..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Box Sets of Blood

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Nightbreed, and more Vincent Price

"...only by the casting of Price, Boris Karloff, and Peter Lorre as three bumbling sorcerers (plus a brief appearance..."

Oct. 28, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cheap Thrills

This grisly, dark comedy is last year's winner of Fantastic Fest's Midnighters Audience Award.

"...starred the improbably perfect duo of Steve McQueen and Peter Lorre. Cinematographers Andrew Wheeler and Sebastian Winterø keep their..."

March 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dark Times in Austin With Noir City

The czar of noir Eddie Muller on Walter White and classic dread

"...duo from The Maltese Falcon: Yup, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre as two men sucked into the greed-filled clutches..."

Feb. 16, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVD Watch: 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'

Hitchcock's original 1931 take, newly restored, debuts on Blu-ray

"...And then there is German refugee Peter Lorre, in his first English-speaking role, playing the placid-featured..."

Jan. 16, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

How I Got Hitched

Richard Whittaker on Hitchcock when he was so very British

"...P. Scudder, and the dynamic is very different.) Like Peter Lorre, star of The Man Who Knew Too Much,..."

Oct. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Two for One Times Three

AFS Essential Cinema tracks a few masters' journeys from Old World to New

"...much for its portrait of a pitchfork-wielding mob as Peter Lorre's baby-faced murderer. After Lang fled Berlin – according to..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)

This follow-up movie sucks ass … literally.

"...in comparison to the ghastly realization that this pop-eyed, Peter Lorre-esque pervert is taking notes. It's not long before..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

FF2011: 'The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)'

'Human Centipede II' reviewed

"...in comparison to the ghastly realization that this pop-eyed, Peter Lorre-esque pervert is taking notes. It's not long before..."

Sept. 25, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM: Stirling at Road's End

Stirling Silliphant had a marvelous gift for writing, but he sold it out

"...Malone, Tuesday Weld, Jack Warden, Buster Keaton, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, George Kennedy, Patty McCormick, Anne Francis, Vera Miles,..."

April 22, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

The Devil's in the Details

Andrew Bujalksi and Cinema Club screen an overlooked John Huston gem

"...And that quartet of radioactivity-obsessed scoundrels? Peter Lorre, pop-eyed and chain-smoking; Robert Morley, quivering with false..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Social Network

This retelling of Facebook's first contentious steps is a blisteringly entertaining film formed of a lovely amalgam of David Fincher's direction, Aaron Sorkin's screenplay, and Jesse Eisenberg's spotless performance as Mark Zuckerberg.

"...Reznor and Atticus Ross – that the sad-eyed monster Peter Lorre once 'napped children to in Fritz Lang's M...."

Oct. 1, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Don Rickles

The legendary comic reveals how he 'slayed' Reagan and killed on the moon

"...Don "Glass-Head" Rickles (referencing his breakout routine set inside Peter Lorre's noggin, where Rickles melded talking with the audience..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Arts Feature by Steve Birmingham

Ashes of Time

Smoke 'em while you still got 'em at Rolling Roadshow's The Maltese Falcon

"...point on. In response, the story goes, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, and John Huston, then hard at work on..."

April 24, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Ghosts Are Good Company

AFS Essential Series: The Third Wave: Contemporary German Cinema

"...and art-deco abstraction. Stars such as Marlene Dietrich and Peter Lorre were nearly as famous as Norma Shearer and..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque

"Oh, the thrill of identifying unknown films!"

"...nothing so much as Jabba the Hut on a Peter Lorre/Rodney Dangerfield bender, but the man's sheer voluminous physicality..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

The Mr. Moto Collection

"...Century Fox, $59.98 The story goes that after seeing Peter Lorre's performance as the compulsive child killer in Fritz..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Poseidon

A handful of talented actors checked their egos at the door in hopes of … something, but this Poseidon is a wash.

"...Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen. Starring: Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfuss, Jacinda Barrett,..."

May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Irreplaceable

Co-director Mike Johnson on 'Tim Burton's Corpse Bride' and how stop-motion has done more than survive amid the rise of computer animation

"...in the heroine's head offering advice like some twisted, Peter Lorre-voiced Jiminy Cricket. It's a great gag, somewhat feral..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

DVDs: Part 3

Gift guide

"...signaled danger with his shrieking-strings knife slash, there was Peter Lorre whistling Grieg's Peer Gynt as prelude to a..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Lenny Bruce

Gift guide

"...a Bavarian impersonator's impersonation of Edward G. Robinson and Peter Lorre, while his mother stands, presumably beaming, beside him..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Brown Sugar

"...role as one of Dre's clients and the self-described “Peter Lorre” to Sid and Dre's Bergman & Bogart. His..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

M

Fritz Lang's 1931 film M is remarkable for its modern editing and storytelling as well as for Lorre's bug-eyed performance as a serial killer preying on children.

"...D: Fritz Lang (1931); with Peter Lorre, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf Gründgens...."

July 27, 2001 Screens Review by Charles Conn

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

"...Fleischer. Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas and Peter Lorre. One of the all-time great fantasy-adventure films, this..."

July 26, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Raising the Dead

Actor Joseph Fotinos Wants to Resurrect Local Television

"...short-lived horror show hosted by the alleged son of Peter Lorre in the Sixties or Seventies -- the quality..."

July 6, 2001 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

"...and a geologist with a dirt fetish and seething Peter Lorre accent (Corey Burton). The oddball crew lends the..."

June 15, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Maltese Falcon

"...by: John Huston. Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor and Peter Lorre. Based on a Dashiell Hammett novel (adapted for..."

May 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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