In November, Peter Lorre's most-famous co-star Sydney Greenstreet is the Turner Classic Movies channel "Star of the Month", and every Wednesday, Lorre fans can enjoy eight of the nine movies they made together.
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, 2021
Nov. 2 (Tues), 6 am, Turner Classic Movies – Quicksand (1950). "Dance Numbers" is the prime-time theme, featuring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, including this thriller in which a non-dancing Rooney plays a garage mechanic who accidentally turns to a life of crime while trying to pay back a loan.
Nov. 2 (Tues), 11:10 am, Movies! Network – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).
Nov. 3 (Wed), 8 pm, TCM – The Maltese Falcon (1941). TCM begins their month-long salute to "Star of the Month" Sydney Greenstreet with his first movie. This classic detective film was also Peter Lorre's first movie with Sydney G. and his first at Warner Bros., the studio Peter would become most asociated with.
Nov. 3 (Wed) 3:45 am, TCM – Passage to Marseille (1944).
Nov. 6 (Sat), 11 am, Movies! Network – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).
Nov. 10 (Wed), 3:30 am, TCM – Background to Danger (1943). The Sydney Greenstreet fest continues with this spy thriller based on an Eric Ambler novel.
Nov. 14 (Sun), 5:10 pm, Movies! Network – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).
Nov. 15 (Mon), 4 am, TCM – Silk Stockings (1957). The prime-time theme is "Dance Numbers", including Peter Lorre's only singing and dancing role as a Russian commissar who goes to Paris with two other commissars to retrieve a musician and end up falling in love with the City of Lights.
Nov. 17 (Wed), 8 pm, TCM – The Verdict (1946). TCM's Sydney Greenstreet fest continues with the final movie Peter Lorre made with Sydney.
Nov. 17 (Wed), 9:45 pm, TCM – Three Strangers (1946). Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet play two of the title characters, who with Geraldine Fitzgerald, make a combined wish on a statuette of an ancient Chinese goddess, with tragic results.
Nov. 17 (Wed), 11:30 pm, TCM – The Conspirators (1944).
Nov. 22 (Mon), 12 noon, TCM – Around the World in 80 Days (1956). The daytime theme is "David Niven". Peter Lorre is one of many cameos in this star-studded extravaganza about the Victorian gentleman (Niven) who makes a bet with his fellow Club members that he can travel around the world in just 80 days.
Nov. 24 (Wed), 8 pm, TCM – Casablanca (1942). TCM ends their month-long salute to Sydney Greenstreet with the second of his films with Peter Lorre.
Nov. 24 (Wed), 12 midnight, TCM – The Mask of Dimitrios (1944). In this film adapted from an Eric Ambler novel, Peter Lorre plays a professor turned mystery novelist who decides to research the life and evil career of an international criminal and soon cross paths with the mysterious Mr. Peters (Greenstreet), who has his own reasons for locating the criminal.
Sneak Peek at December, 2021
Ingrid Bergman is TCM’s "Star of the Month", including the only film she made with Peter Lorre.
Dec. 1 (Wed), 10 pm, TCM – Casablanca (1942).
Many of these and other Lorre movies and television programs 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 may be purchased from many brick-and-mortar shops, as well as these online merchants ~
Happy viewing!
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