July 30, 2016

Lorre Film at the AFI in Maryland

As part of their salute to production designer Ken Adams, the American Film Institute in Silver Spring, Maryland, will present a showing of Around the World in 80 Days (1956) on Sunday, July 31, 2016.

Around the World in 80 Days begins at 2 pm in AFI Silver Auditorium 1. The 35mm print includes an intermission, as when the film was originally shown in theaters.

Ticket prices are $13 general admission, $10 for seniors, $8 for children age 12 and under, and $9.50 for AFI members at Two-star level and higher.

Tickets may be purchased on-line through the AFI Silver Theatre website. Tickets purchased on-line must be claimed at the box office with the same credit card used to make the purchase. The AFI Silver accepts American Express, Visa, MasterCard, and Discover credit cards.

Tickets may also be purchased at the AFI Silver box office, which opens 30 minutes before the first film of the day.

AFI’s complete schedule for the Ken Adam retrospective is available on the cinema’s website.

The AFI Silver Theatre is located at 8633 Colesville Road, at the intersection of Colesville Road and Georgia Avenue, in Silver Spring, Maryland. Directions to the cinema may be found on the AFI Silver website.

Parking is available in several public parking decks close to the theater. Most convenient is the Wayne Avenue garage, located at 921 Wayne Avenue, in Silver Spring, Maryland. Parking at the Wayne Avenue garage is free on weekends and after 7 pm on weekdays. More information on parking can be found on the AFI Silver website.

For more information, please call the cinema at (301) 495-6700.

In the role of a Japanese steward aboard a ship bound for Yokohama, Peter Lorre is one of the many Hollywood stars making a cameo appearance in the classic adventure of Phileas Fogg (David Niven), who makes a bet with his friends at the Reform Club that he can circle the world in 80 days.

The life and career of Peter Lorre is discussed in the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (2005) by Stephen D. Youngkin. The Lost One is available for purchase in soft-bound and hard-back, as well as the Kindle and Nook.

July 29, 2016

Coweta Public Library Hosts Lorre Film

On Friday, July 29, 2016, the Coweta Public Library’s Classic Movie Club will host a free showing of the Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre classic The Maltese Falcon (1941) at the library in Coweta, Oklahoma.

The program will begin at 12 noon.

Admission is free for everyone. Filmgoers are invited to bring their lunch to the library to enjoy during the movie.

The Coweta Public Library is located at 120 East Sycamore Street, in Coweta, Oklahoma. Parking is available on the street near the library.

For more information, please call the library at (918) 486-6532.

July 23, 2016

Albuquerque Noir Fest Includes Lorre

For its thirteenth annual “Festival of Film Noir”, the Guild Cinema focuses on classic and modern noir from 1941 to 1981, including a double-feature of “Peter Lorre Noir” – The Face Behind the Mask (1941) and The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) – Tuesday and Wednesday, July 26 and 27, 2016.

The Face Behind the Mask will be shown at 5 pm and 8:30 pm both nights. The Mask of Dimitrios will be shown at 6:30 pm both nights.

The film noir festival runs from Friday, July 22, to Sunday, July 31, 2016 – five double-features over 10 nights, reports Guild Cinema owner Kief Henley, with “heavyweight actors and actresses”, including Peter Lorre. The full schedule is available on the venue’s website.

Tickets for each movie are $8 general admission and $5 for seniors (age 60 and older), kids (12 and under), and students with valid I.D. Members of the Harwood Art Center may get $1 off the general admission when they show their membership card. Admission may vary for special events.

Tickets may be purchased at the Guild Cinema box office, which opens 15 minutes before the first show of the day. For special events, the cinema may offer advance ticket sales. Enquire at the box office. More information about tickets is available on the Guild's website.

The Guild Cinema is located at 3405 Central Avenue NE, in the Nob Hill section of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Parking is available on the street along Tulare Drive NE, around the corner from the Guild Cinema. Parking is also available along Campus Boulevard NE. Do not park in the Red Wing Shoes parking lot – your car will be towed. More information on parking is available on the Guild Cinema website.

For more information, please contact the theater at 505-255-1848.

Summer into Fall with Lorre on TV

As summer becomes fall, 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.



August, 2016

In August, Turner Classic Movies presents their annual "Summer Under the Stars" festival, and although Peter Lorre does not have a day of his own, many of his co-stars do – Humphrey Bogart, Hedy Lamarr, Cyd Charisse, and Charles Boyer.

Aug. 3 (Wed), 11:30 am, Fox Movie channel – Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962).

Aug. 7 (Sun), 4:10 am, MGM channel – The Comedy of Terrors (1964).

Aug. 9 (Tues), 5:30 am, Movies! Network – Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939).

Aug. 10 (Wed), 6 pm, Turner Classic Movies channel – The Conspirators (1944). It’s "Hedy Lamarr Day" on Turner Classic Movies, and the line-up includes this spy film featuring Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet as agents working together in Lisbon, Portugal.

Aug. 10 (Wed), 4 am, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Aug. 12 (Fri), 1:10 pm, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Aug. 14 (Sun), 8 am, TCM – Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956). "Cyd Charisse Day" on TCM includes this first of two MGM musicals with appearances by Peter Lorre. Watch for Peter in a cameo as a blackjack player.

Aug. 14 (Sun), 6 pm, TCM – Silk Stockings (1957). "Cyd Charisse Day" continues with a singing and dancing Peter Lorre as a Russian commissar in this Fred Astaire musical, costarring Charisse.

Aug. 17 (Wed), 4:10 am, MGM channel – The Comedy of Terrors (1964).

Aug. 19 (Fri), 4 am, Fox Movie channel – Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962).

Aug. 20 (Sat), noon, TCM – Passage to Marseille (1944). TCM presents "Humphrey Bogart Day", including the final movie Peter made with his off-screen pal Bogie while under contract to Warner Bros.

Aug. 20 (Sat), 1:15 pm, Fox Movie channel – Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962).

Aug. 20 (Sat), 2 pm, TCM – Casablanca (1942). "Humphrey Bogart Day" continues with the film that won Peter an offer from Warner Bros.

Aug. 20 (Sat), 2 am, TCM – The Maltese Falcon (1941). "Humphrey Bogart Day" continues with Peter’s first appearance with Bogie – and with Sydney Greenstreet, with whom Peter would co-star in another eight movies in the 1940s.

Aug. 21 (Sun), 1:10 pm and 4 am, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Aug. 21 (Sun), 3:10 am, Antenna TV channel – Alfred Hitchcock Presents, "Man From the South".

Aug. 28 (Sun), 6 am, MGM channel – The Comedy of Terrors (1964).

Aug. 29 (Mon), 6 am, TCM – Confidential Agent (1941). "Charles Boyer Day" begins with Boyer and Peter Lorre on opposite sides in this spy drama set in London.

Aug. 29 (Mon), 8 am, TCM – The Constant Nymph (1943). "Charles Boyer Day" continues with Lorre and Boyer as best friends in a romantic drama set in London.
Aug. 29 (Mon), 6 pm, THIS channel – Muscle Beach Party (1964).




September, 2016

September brings a handful of Peter Lorre films on the Turner Classic Movies channel, including movies shown frequently and movies shown infrequently.

Sept. 5 (Mon), 6 am, THIS TV channel – Muscle Beach Party (1964).

Sept. 6 (Tues), 6 am, Movies! Network channel – Danger Island (1939).

Sept. 7 (Wed), 3 am, Fox Movie channel – Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962).

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

Sept. 11 (Sun), 8 pm, TCM – Casablanca (1942). Guest programmer Thomas Bruno, a former New York City policeman and fireman who served during the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, joins host Ben Mankiewicz for an evening of Mr. Bruno's favorite movies, beginning with Casablanca.

Sept. 19 (Mon), 11:30 pm, TCM – Background to Danger (1943). "Featuring the Gettysburg Address" is tonight's Primetime Theme on Turner Classic Movies, and included is this Lorre / Greenstreet spy film, starring George Raft and Brenda Marshall.

Sept. 20 (Tues), 9:15 am, TCM – The Conspirators (1944). "WWII Spy Stories" is the daytime theme on Turner Classic movies, including this Lorre / Greenstreet spy film, starring Paul Henreid and Hedy Lamarr.

Sept. 22 (Thurs), 1:15 pm, Fox Movie channel – Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962).

Sept. 22 (Thurs), 8 pm, THIS TV channel – Muscle Beach Party (1964).

Sept. 23 (Fri), 11 am, Fox Movie channel – Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962).

Sept. 25 (Sun), 4:30 pm, TCM – Muscle Beach Party (1963).



October, 2016

Cool nights, Halloween, horror movies – and Peter Lorre in October!

Oct. 2 (Sun), 2:20 am, GetTV – The Face Behind the Mask (1941).

Oct. 4 (Tues), 1:10 pm, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Oct. 5 (Wed), 6 am, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Oct. 8 (Sat), 7:30 am, TCM – Mad Love (1935). Peter Lorre’s first film in Hollywood was a horror movie in which he plays a brilliant surgeon in Paris who loves a stage actress (Frances Drake) and who performs an operation on her husband’s (Colin Clive) crushed hands to win her love.

Oct. 9 (Sun), 10 pm, GetTV – Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace (1996). originally shown on the Arts and Entertainment channel's series Biography, this one-hour documentary features interviews with Stephen D. Youngkin, author of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (2005), and many actors and directors who worked with Peter throughout his career.

Oct. 9 (Sun), 11 pm, GetTV – The Face Behind the Mask (1941).

Oct. 11 (Tues), 8 pm, TCM – Hollywood Canteen (1944). TCM turns the spotlight on "Trailblazing Women – Actresses Who Made a Difference" with a pair of movies tonight. First off, Bette Davis, founder (with Warner Bros. actor John Garfield) of the famed war-time Hollywood Canteen open to all servicemen and women. Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet wrote their sketch in this all-star extravaganza set at the Canteen.

Oct. 11 (Tues), 2:30 am, TCM – The Conspirators (1944). Hedy Lamarr is the featured actress in this TCM Spotlight movie, "Trailblazing Women – Actresses Who Made a Difference". Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet appear again as spies working together in war-torn Lisbon, Portugal, with Lamarr and Paul Henreid.

Oct. 13 (Sun), 2:16 am, GetTV – The Face Behind the Mask (1941).

Oct. 15 (Sat), 1:45 pm, TCM – Around the World in 80 Days (1956).

Oct. 29 (Sat), 7:10 am, GetTV – The Face Behind the Mask (1941).

Oct. 29 (Sat), 8 am, Movies! Network – Beat the Devil (1954).

Oct. 31 (Mon), 6 am, GetTV – Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace (1996). An encore showing of this documentary on the life and career of Peter Lorre, featuring interviews with Stephen D. Youngkin, author of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (2005), and many actors and directors who worked with Peter throughout his career.

Oct. 31 (Mon), 1:30 pm, MGM HD channel – The Raven (1963). One of several AIP movies Peter made with Vincent Price, in a day of Vincent Price movies on the MGM channel.

Oct. 31 (Mon), 4 am, GetTV – The Face Behind the Mask (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!

July 21, 2016

Lorre Film Opens Noir Fest in Seattle

The Peter Lorre classic Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) opens the week-long annual event "Noir City" film noir festival at the SIFF Cinema Egyptian Theatre in Seattle, Washington, on Friday, July 23, 2016.

The theme this year is "Film Noir from A to B", and each night, a double-feature will be presented in the style of moviegoing of the 1940s – an "A" picture, high-budget movie with a top-drawer cast, and a "B" picture, made on low budget with a talented but less-expensive cast.

On Friday, July 23, the “A” feature I Wake Up Screaming (1941) will begin the program at 7 pm, followed by the “B” feature Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) at 9 pm.

Eddie Muller, the “Czar of Noir”, will present each movie, which will be shown on 35mm film.

The festival runs from Friday, July 23, to Thursday, July 28. The full schedule is available on the venue’s website.

Ticket prices for this special engagement are $15 per film, $14 for seniors and youth, and $10 for SIFF members. Passes for the festival are also available at $150 for non-members and $100 for SIFF members. Tickets may be purchased at the box office, which opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day. Tickets may also be purchased on-line through the SIFF Cinema Egyptian website. Click the “Buy” button to be taken to the purchase screen. A fee of $1.25 will be added to all on-line purchases. Festival passes may be purchased on-line through the Passes page.

The SIFF Cinema Egyptian Theatre is located at 805 East Pine Street in the Capitol Hill section of Seattle, Washington.

Parking is available in the parking garage at Seattle Central College, located at 1609 Harvard Avenue in Seattle. The parking garage is located across the street from the Egyptian. The cinema is also served by Metro buses. More information on parking, as well as public transport to the Egyptian, is available on the venue’s website.

For more information, please call the Egyptian at 206-324-9996.

In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (2005), Stephen D. Youngkin recounts the making of Stranger on the Third Floor, including an interview with the movie’s female lead Margaret Tallichet, who recalled Peter Lorre’s penchant for enjoying a midnight snack of beer and smelly cheese during the film’s night shoots.

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

July 17, 2016

Celebrate Christmas in July with Peter Lorre

The Radio Classics channel, airing over Channel 148 on the Sirius XM dial, celebrates Christmas in July the week of July 17, 2016, with a number of Christmas-themed episodes from various old-time radio series – including Peter Lorre’s Suspense episode, “Back for Christmas”.

The annual event runs from Sunday, July 17, to Saturday, July 23.

“Back for Christmas” will air these dates and times –

Sunday, July 17 ~
11 am Eastern, 8 am Pacific
11 pm Eastern, 8 pm Pacific

Tuesday, July 19 ~
10 pm Pacific

Wednesday, July 20 ~
1 am Eastern
11 am Eastern, 8 am Pacific

The full schedule is available on the Radio Classics channel website.

Regular channel host Greg Bell takes his Radio Classics hosting duties to the high seas of Mexico and Honduras the week of July 17 aboard Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas for the fourth annual Radio Spirits cruise.

In his place will be five hosts, including Maggie Linton from Urban View (channel 126), Ron Ross from The Pulse (channel 15), Kyle Cantrell from Bluegrass Junction (channel 61), Mike Ross, from Canada 360 (channel 172), and Mary Sue Twohy from The Village (channel 741).

This version of the John Collier story originally aired Dec. 23, 1943. “Back for Christmas” was Peter’s fourth of six appearances before the microphone of the anthology series, airing over CBS every Thursday night.

XM and Sirius radio subscribers may also listen to Suspense, “Back for Christmas”, over the internet. Log-in with your User ID and password. Not a subscriber? A free 30-day trial is also available through the XM radio website.

In The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen D. Youngkin discusses the radio career of Peter Lorre, including an interview with Harry Morgan, who hosted Peter’s own radio series Mystery in the Air during the summer of 1947. A complete-to-date list of Peter’s radio credits may be found in the book’s appendix.

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

July 9, 2016

Moto Films at Sarasota’s Ringling Museum

Peter Lorre fans in the Sarasota, Florida, area are in for a special treat on Saturday, July 9, 2016 – a Mr. Moto double-feature at the Ringling Museum of Art.

The program begins at 1:30 pm with Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937), the second in the Moto series of the late 1930s, and Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938), released third. A discussion of the films and their role in presenting Asian images in American culture will follow.

Admission is $5 for all seats. Ringling Museum members will be admitted free of charge.

The Ringling Museum is located at 5401 Bay Shore Road, in Sarasota, Florida. Directions to the museum are available on the Ringling website.

The two Mr. Moto movies will be shown in the Chao Lecture Hall.

“Suiting you?”, as the intrepid Japanese detective would say . . . .