November 29, 2016

Library Film Program Includes Lorre

The Saranac Lake Free Library continues their “Great Films” program with a showing of Casablanca (1942) on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016.

The movie begins at 2 pm in the Thomas B. Cantwell Community Room.

Admission is free for everyone.

The Saranac Lake Free Library is located at 109 Main Street, in Saranac Lake, New York. For more information, please call the library at 518-891-4190.

In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (2005), Stephen D. Youngkin recounts the making of Casablanca, a film to which Peter attached little importance and later claimed he made more money playing the roulette wheel on the “Gambling Room” ser than he did acting before the cameras.

However, Casablanca did give Peter the opportunity to work for a third time with his off-screen buddy Humphrey Bogart, as well as earn him a contract with the Warner Bros. studio he is now so closely associated with.

The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre is available in soft-bound and hard-back editions, as well as the Kindle and Nook.

November 13, 2016

Casablanca at Penn Cinemas

The “Monday Night” series of classic films returns to Penn Cinema locations in Lititz, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware, and Casablanca (1942) is on the schedule for Monday, Nov. 14, 2016.

The movie begins at 7 pm.

Admission is $11.50 for adults, $8.50 for children and seniors. Tickets may be purchased at the box office. Tickets may also be purchased on-line through the Penn Cinema website. Click the "Buy Tickets" button, select "November 14" from the calendar, and click on Casablanca from the drop-down list. A fee of $1 will be charged for each ticket purchased on-line.

The Penn Cinema in Lititz is located at 541 Airport Road, in Lititz, Pennsylvania. For more information, please call the theater at 717-626-7720.

The Penn Cinema in Wilmington is located at 401 South Madison Street, in Wilmington, Delaware. For more information, please call the theater at 302-656-4314.

The “Monday Night” series runs from November 7 to December 12, 2016. The complete schedule of movies is available on the Penn Cinema website.

In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (2005), Stephen D. Youngkin recounts the making of Casablanca, a film to which Peter attached little importance but which led to his receiving a contract with Warner Bros. and continuing work in the wartime dramas and mysteries he became best known for at the studio.

The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre is available in soft-bound and hard-back editions, as well as the Kindle and Nook.

November 10, 2016

Milwaukee Art Museum Exhibit Includes Lorre

At the Milwaukee Art Museum, the new exhibit "Haunted Screens: German Cinema in the 1920s" takes a look at the Expressionist films produced in Germany during the Weimar Republic, between 1918 and 1933, through production design drawings, photographs, posters, documents, equipment, and film clips from more than 20 films. A special film program of four movies from the period will accompany the exhibit, including Peter Lorre's first sound movie M (1931).

The exhibit will run from Friday, October 21, 2016, to Sunday, January 22, 2017, in the museum's Baker/Rowland Galleries.

M will be shown on Saturday, November 12, 2016, at 2 pm in the Lubar Auditorium. Admission is free for everyone visiting the museum.

A complete list of all programs, discussions, gallery talks, and movies included with the "Haunted Screens" exhibit is available on the Milwaukee Art Museum website.

The Milwaukee Art Museum is located at 700 North Art Museum Drive, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm. On Friday, the museum closes at 8 pm. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Admission to the museum is $17 for adults, $15 for seniors (65 and older) and students with ID. Admission is free for Art Museum members, children 12 and under, and Wisconsin K through 12 teachers (with valid school ID or paystub).

Parking is available in the museum’s underground parking garage, accessible from either Michigan Street or Lincoln Memorial Drive. Information about parking rates, as well as directions to the Milwaukee Art Museum, is available on the museum’s website.

For more information, please contact the museum at (414) 224-3200.

November 4, 2016

El Segundo Venue Presents The Maltese Falcon

Peter Lorre fans in the area of El Segundo and Los Angeles, California, can celebrate the 75th anniversary of The Maltese Falcon (1941) this weekend, when the Old Town Music Hall presents the classic mystery film Friday through Sunday, November 4 to 6, 2016.

The movie will be shown these dates and times ~
  • Friday – 8:15 pm
  • Saturday – 2:30 pm and 8:15 pm
  • Sunday – 2:30 pm
The program includes a selection of tunes on the venue’s Mighty Wurlitzer Theater Pipe Organ, an audience sing-along, and a comedy short. The feature movie will follow a 15-minute intermission.

Admission is $10 for adults and children and $8 for seniors age 62 and older. Tickets may be purchased at the box office, which opens 30 minutes before show time. Advance tickets are not available.

The Old Town Music Hall is located at 140 Richmond Street, near the Los Angeles International Airport, in El Segundo, California. Directions to the theater are available on the venue’s website.

Parking is available in the lot beside the Old Town Music Hall.

For more information, please contact the Old Town Music Hall at 310-322-2592.

In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen D. Youngkin discusses the making of The Maltese Falcon, the first film Peter made with Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet, his co-stars in several other mystery and wartime dramas at the Warner Bros. studio.

The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre is available in hard-back and soft-bound editions, as well as the Kindle and Nook.

November 2, 2016

Imperial War Museum Exhibit Includes Lorre

From July 2016 until January 2017, the Imperial War Museum in London, England, presents the new exhibit “Real to Reel: A Century of War Movies”, a look at the ways filmmakers use the backdrop and drama of war to tell stories of tragedy and loss, fear and courage, including film clips, costumes, props, scripts, sketches, and designs from such films as Casablanca (1942), and War Horse (2011), among others.

A special film program of three wartime movies will accompany the exhibit, including Peter Lorre’s Casablanca (1942).

The exhibit will run until Sunday, January 8, 2017.

Casablanca will be shown on Thursday, November 3, 2016, at 7 pm in the museum’s atrium on the traveling pop-up movie screen called The Nomad, below a Spitfire suspended from the museum’s ceiling.

Admission is £25 for everyone, which includes the film screening, entrance to the “Real to Reel” exhibit, and a complimentary drink. Tickets may be purchased through The Nomad Cinema website. A booking fee of £2.50 will be charged on all on-line purchases.

A complete list of all programs, discussions, gallery talks, and movies included with the “Real to Reel” exhibit is available on the Imperial War Museum website.

The Imperial War Museum is located on Lambeth Road, SE1, in London, England.

The museum is open every day from 10 am to 6 pm.

Admission to the museum is £10 for adults, £5 for children and Art Fund members, and £7 for concessions (seniors, students, and the unemployed). Admission is free for Imperial War Museum members.

The Imperial War Museum is well-served by public transportation options, such as the London underground and bus routes. The nearest tube stations are Waterloo and Elephant and Castle. Lambeth North, also close by and most convenient to the museum, is closed until mid-February, 2017.

More information on getting to the Imperial War Museum is available on the museum’s website.

For more information, please contact the museum at 020 7416 5000.

November 1, 2016

Holiday Season and New Year with Lorre on TV

As the days grow shorter and the holidays approach, Peter Lorre fans can find many Lorre movies on television and Turner Classic Movies.

All times shown are Eastern Standard.

Peter Lorre's page on the TV Guide Channel website lists the Lorre films scheduled on various television channels over a 2-week period.



November, 2016

November offers two showings of Peter’s first English-speaking film, as well as some of his later movies.

Nov. 3 (Thurs), 2:45 pm, Turner Classic Movies channel – The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). The daytime theme is “Conspiracy Films”, and among them is Peter’s first English-speaking role and his first Alfred Hitchcock movie.

Nov. 5 (Sat), 11:30 am, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Nov. 6 (Sun), 6 am, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Nov. 21 (Mon), 6 am, Movies! Network – Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938).

Nov. 22 (Tues), 11:30 am, Fox Movie channel – Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962).

Nov. 23 (Tues), 9:05 am, Fox Movie channel – Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962).

Nov. 27 (Sun), 10 pm, TCM – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961). Today’s primetime theme is “Bon Voyage” – set sail aboard the Seaview for a voyage to save the earth in this Irwin Allen disaster movie.

Nov. 28 (Mon), 1:10 pm, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Nov. 29 (Tues), 7:15 am, TCM – The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). “Hitchcock-a-Thon” is today’s daytime theme, and a second showing of Peter’s first movie with Hitchcock directing kicks off a day of Hitchcock movies.

Nov. 29 (Tues), 10:50 am, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Nov. 30 (Wed), 6:30 am, Movies! Network – Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938).



December, 2016

Lorre fans, get set to open a big day of Lorre films on the Turner Classic Movies channel – just two days after Christmas!

Dec. 6 (Tues), 3:45 pm, TCM – Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956). TCM salutes Agnes Moorehead on her birthday with a day of Moorehead movies, including this Dan Daily and Cyd Charisse musical in which she plays Dailey's mother.

Dec. 17 (Sat), 10:45 am, Fox Movie channel – Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962).

Dec. 18 (Sun), 7:35 am, Fox Movie channel – Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962).

Dec. 20 (Tues), 11:10 am, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Dec. 21 (Wed), 9:45 am, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Dec. 27 (Tues), 9:15 am, TCM – The Conspirators (1944). Today, TCM salutes Sydney Greenstreet with a day of Greenstreet movies. And since Syd was Peter's co-star in nine movies at Warner Bros., five of the movies shown today also include Peter in the cast – starting with this World War II espionage movie in which Lorre and Greenstreet team up as Allied agents working together in Lisbon, Portugal.

Dec. 27 (Tues), 1 pm, TCM – Passage to Marseille (1944). "Greenstreet Day" continues with another World War II movie that teamed Peter with his best friend Humphrey Bogart a final time under Peter’s Warner Bros. contract. This time, Peter and Syd work against each other.

Dec. 27 (Tues), 3 pm, TCM – Background to Danger (1943). "Happy birthday, Sydney G." continues with another World War II espionage film, again with Peter and Sydney working against each other.

Dec. 27 (Tues), 4:30 pm, TCM – Casablanca (1942). Sydney's birthday celebration continues with a movie where Peter and Sydney had no scenes together – but Peter's performance won Lorre a contract with Warner Bros.

Dec. 27 (Tues), 6:15 pm, TCM – The Maltese Falcon (1941). "Sydney Greenstreet Day" ends with the movie that began his film career – as well as his on-screen partnership with Peter Lorre.

Dec. 27 (Tues), 8 pm, TCM – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). TCM turns the spotlight on "The Golden Years", a look at aging and elderly characters in movies. In this case, a comedic look – a dark comedy about two elderly ladies and an extremely poisonous carafe of elderberry wine.

Dec. 28 (Wed), 11:20 am, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Dec. 29 (Thurs), 9:40 am, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).



January, 2017

A new year – and new opportunities to enjoy Peter Lorre films on television!

Jan. 2 (Mon), 11:30 am, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Jan. 3 (Tues), 8:35 am, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Jan. 7 (Sat), 8 am, Movies! Network – Beat the Devil (1954).

Jan. 7 (Sat), 12 noon, TCM – The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Jan. 8 (Sun), 1:15 pm, Fox Movie channel – Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962).

Jan. 9 (Mon), 11:40 am, Fox Movie channel – Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962).

Jan. 18 (Wed), 9 am, Movies! Network – Beat the Devil (1954). The Movies! Network celebrates "Hump Day" (Wednesday) with a full day of Humphrey Bogart movies, including the final film Bogie made with his old pal Peter Lorre and director John Huston.

Jan. 20 (Fri), 1:10 pm and 3 am, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Jan. 21 (Sat), 6 pm, Movies! Network – Beat the Devil (1954).

Jan. 26 (Thurs), 4:30 am, Movies! Network – Beat the Devil (1954).

Jan. 27 (Fri), 9:10 am and 3 am, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Jan. 28 (Sat), 11:30 am, Fox Movie channel – Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962).

Jan. 29 (Sun), 9:55 am, Fox Movie channel – Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962).

Jan. 30 (Mon), 12:30 pm, TCM – Hotel Berlin (1945). TCM presents movies co-starring Helmut Dantine, and here in Hotel Berlin, he plays Martin Richter, whose scenes include an effective moment with Peter, playing Professor Johannes Koenig.

Jan. 30 (Mon), 3:45 pm, TCM – The Story of Mankind (1957). "Co-Starring Helmut Dantine" continues with this star-studded battle between Satan (Vincent Price) and the Spirit of Mankind (Ronald Coleman), directed by Irwin Allen, with Dantine as Marc Antony and Peter Lorre as Emperor Nero.

Jan. 30 (Mon), 8 pm, TCM – Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956). "Classic Las Vegas" is TCM's primetime theme.

Jan. 30 (Mon), 4 am, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).



February, 2017

Turner Classic Movies begins their annual "31 Days of Oscar" film festival on Wednesday, Feb. 1 – and this year, the schedule runs A to Z. Although Peter Lorre never won an Oscar, never was nominated for an Oscar, several of his movies were Oscar winners, and several will be shown this month.

Feb. 1 (Wed), 2:15 am, TCM – Around the World in 80 Days (1956).

Feb. 5 (Sun), 8 pm, TCM – Casablanca (1942).

Feb. 6 (Mon), 6:45 am, TCM – The Constant Nymph (1943).

Feb. 16 (Thurs), 6:15 pm, TCM – The Maltese Falcon (1941).



Many of these and other Lorre movies are now available on DVD and Blu-Ray – many remastered and packaged with extra features. For more information on the films of Peter Lorre released to home video, head on over to the DVD – VHS section of The Lost One website.

In The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen D. Youngkin discusses the making of Peter’s movies, including interviews with many of the directors, writers, actors, and crew who worked with Peter.

A complete list of Peter’s movies and television credits is available in the book’s Appendix. The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre is available in hard-back and soft-bound editions, as well as the Kindle and Nook.

Happy viewing!