Lorre Noir at the AFI Silver Theatre

On Thursday, October 8, 2026, “Noir City” returns to the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, located in Silver Spring, Maryland, with a selection of film noir movies, including Black Angel (1946), starring Dan Duryea, June Vincent, and Peter Lorre.

The Noir City theme this year is “Face the Music” – 23 movies featuring murder, crime, and musicians. The festival begins on Thursday, October 8, and ends on Thursday, October 22, 2026.

The full schedule is available on the AFI Silver website.

Black Angel will be shown these days and times ~

Friday, October 9 –
9:30 pm
Hosted by Eddie Muller

Monday, October 12 –
2 pm

Thursday, October 15 –
11:45 am

Film Noir Foundation founder and Turner Classic Movies host Eddie Muller, the “Czar of Noir”, will introduce the evening showings of movies from October 8 to October 10.

Film historian and Film Noir Foundation board member Foster Hirsch will introduce the evening showings of movies from October 16 to October 18.

Admission to each movie is $15 for all seats. A pass for the entire “Noir City” festival is available for $200. Tickets may be purchased at the AFI box office. Tickets and the festival pass may also be purchased through the AFI website.

The AFI Silver Theatre is located at 8633 Colesville Road, at the intersection of Colesville Road and Georgia Avenue, in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Parking is available in several public parking decks close to the theater. Most convenient is the Wayne Avenue garage, located at 921 Wayne Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland. Payment for parking at the Wayne Avenue garage is “Pay by Plate” or “Pay by Cell”. More information about payment options is available on the Wayne Avenue garage website.

Staying in Silver Spring during the festival? The Courtyard Silver Spring Downtown, located at 8506 Fenton Street in Silver Spring, Maryland, is most convenient and adjoins the Wayne Avenue garage. A pedestrian walkway at the 5th floor of the parking garage connects the garage to the Courtyard hotel.

Directions to the cinema, as well as information about parking and public transportation, may be found on the AFI Silver website.

Halloween with Lorre in October

October means spooky movies and Halloween, and this month, Peter's fans can enjoy many Lorre treats on the Turner Classic Movies channel, the Talking Pictures TV channel, and the Movies! Network channel, among others.

American times shown are Eastern Standard.

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October, 2026

Peter Lorre's only Halloween-themed movie Arsenic and Old Lace gets wide play this month on several television channels, as well as other Lorre films on American, British, and Canadian television channels.

Oct 2 (Fri), 2:45 pm, Talking Pictures TV, British televison channel – Peter Lorre: Behind the Mask (2024). Directed by Evelyn Schels, this documentary discusses Peter Lorre’s career, through interviews with Lorre biographer Stephen D. Youngkin and other film historians.

Oct 3 (Sat), 8 pm, Movies! Network – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). The classic Halloween tale set in Brooklyn about the two maiden aunts and their unusual "charity", involving elderly gentlemen and a flask of poisonous elderberry wine.

Oct 3 (Sat), 8 pm, KQED San Francisco – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

Oct 3 (Sat), 4:35 am, ScreenPix – The Comedy of Terrors (1964).

Oct 6 (Tues), 7:45 am, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Oct 10 (Sat), 8 pm, KSPS Spokane, Washington – Saturday Night Cinema, Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

Oct 11 (Sun), 2:50 pm, Movies! Network – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

Oct 12 (Mon), 2:30 am, Talking Pictures TV – Beat the Devil (1954).

Oct 15 (Thurs), 6 am, Movies! Network – Quicksand (1950).

Oct 16 (Fri), 8:05 am, Movies! Network – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

Oct 23 (Fri), 3:30 am, Turner Classic Movies channel – The Bease with Five Fingers (1946).

Oct 25 (Sun), 6:25 am, Movies! Network – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

Oct 27 (Tue), 8 pm, Turner Classic Movies – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). The TCM primetime theme is "Sweater Weather", including this Halloween film of murder and mayhem in Brooklyn. Note – In Canada, The Green Years (1946) will be shown instead.

Oct 28 (Wed), 9 am, Movies! Network – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

Oct 29 (Thurs), 6 am, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Oct 29 (Thurs), 7 pm, Silver Screen Classics channel, Canada – The Chase (1946).

Oct 30 (Fri), 1 pm, Silver Screen Classics channel, Canada – The Chase (1946).

Oct 30 (Fri), 1:30 pm, Turner Classic Movies – Mad Love (1935). It's "Halloween Eve", and the TCM daytime theme is "Halloween Horror", featuring a day of madness and horror, including this tale of Dr. Gogol, the brilliant surgeon who loves to obsession actress Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake), star of the "Theater of Horrors". Note – In Canada, The Return of Dr. X (1939) will be shown instead.

Oct 30 (Fri), 7:15 pm, ScreenPix Action channel – The Comedy of Terrors (1964).

Oct 31 (Sat), 4:30 pm, Turner Classic Movies – Birth of a Notion (1947). A Peter Lorre caricature appears as a mad scientist in need of a duck's wishbone in this Warner Bros Looney Tunes cartoon. Oct 31 (Sat), 8:45 pm, ScreenPix Action channel – The Comedy of Terrors (1964).

Oct 31 (Sat), 10 pm, KQED San Francisco – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). The PBS station in San Francisco celebrates Halloween with an encore showing of the classic Halloween tale of murder and mayhem in Brooklyn.

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Sneak Peek at November, 2026

Here's a look at Lorre movies coming up in November.

Nov 2 (Mon), TCM – Hollywood Canteen (1944).

Nov 4 (Wed), TCM – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

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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.

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Happy viewing!

German Film Fest Ends With Lorre Classic

On Wednesday, September 30, 2026, the German American Heritage Center, located in Davenport, Iowa, will conclude its five-film series “The Lost Years of German Cinema: 1948-1963” with a screening of Peter Lorre’s sole directorial effort Der Verlorene (The Lost One, 1951).

As with the other movies in the series, Der Verlorene will be shown at The Last Picture House, located in Davenport, Iowa.

The program begins at 6 pm. Following Der Verlorene, Dr. Lisa Seidlitz will host a discussion of the film and the actors.

Admission is $15 for General Admission; $12 for GHAC Museum members; and $12 for LPH Autograph Club members. Tickets may be purchased online through the German American Heritage website. A nominal fee will be added to each ticket purchased online.

Proceeds from ticket sales will support programs at the German American Heritage Center.

The Last Picture House is located at 325 East Second Street in Davenport, Iowa.

Free parking is available along South Perry Street. Parking is also available in the River City Parking Ramp, located at 201 East Second Street. More information about parking is available on the Last Picture House website.

Two Anniversaries Celebrated on SiriusXM Include Lorre

During the week of September 7, 2026, the Radio Classics channel, airing over the SiriusXM satellite service, observes the milestones of two iconic series – the 83rd anniversary of old-time radio series Mollé Mystery Theatre and the 60th anniversary of the original television series Star Trek.

And Peter Lorre fans can enjoy two episodes of his series Mystery Playhouse – “Nightmare” (November 28, 1944) and “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” (February 27, 1945).

Celebrating the 83rd anniversary of the mystery series Mollé Mystery Theatre, Radio Classics channel host Greg Bell presents a two-hour block of episodes, including “Nightmare” (November 28, 1944), “Last Night” (February 22, 1946), “Night Must Fall” (April 12, 1946), and “St. Louis Lady” (August 23, 1946).

And in honor of the 60th anniversary of Gene Roddenberry’s science-fiction TV series Star Trek, Bell hosts a two-hour block of radio shows scripted by Trek writers Roddenberry, Theodore Sturgeon, and Robert Bloch, as well as an episode starring Trek regular DeForest Kelly, who played the starship Enterprise doctor McCoy – X-Minus One, “Mr. Costello, Hero” (July 3, 1956), written by Theodore Sturgeon; Mollé Mystery Theatre, “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” (February 27, 1945), written by Robert Bloch; Suspense, "Fleshpeddler" (August 8, 1957), with DeForest Kelley; and Have Gun, Will Travel, “Helen of Abajinian” (January 4, 1959), written by Gene Roddenberry.

The Mollé Mystery Theatre block will air these dates and times –

Monday, September 7 –
7 pm Pacific, 10 pm Eastern

Wednesday, September 9 –
1 am Pacific, 4 am Eastern

Friday, September 11 –
1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern

The Star Trek birthday block will air these dates and times –

Tuesday, September 8 –
5 pm Pacific, 8 pm Eastern

Thursday, September 10 –
11 am Pacific, 2 pm Eastern

Saturday, September 12 –
9 am Pacific, 12 noon Eastern

The Radio Classics channel airs over Channel 140 on the SiriusXM dial. Subscribers may listen to the channel through their car radio, computer, or the SiriusXM app on their cell phone. Not a subscriber? Take SiriusXM for a three-month test drive for just one dollar. Find out the details on the SiriusXM website.

The full schedule for the week – Monday, September 7, and ending Sunday, September 13, 2026 – is available on Greg Bell’s website.

In the mid-1940s, Peter Lorre frequently hosted the Armed Forces Radio Series program Mystery Playhouse, which aired specially-edited episodes of Mollé Mystery Theatre, as well as other mystery and horror series, including The Whistler, Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Mr. and Mrs. North, and many others.

These episodes would be recorded on thick records and shipped abroad to American military men and women, serving overseas during World War II.

Peter Lorre also has a Star Trek connection. His first wife, Celia Lovsky guest-starred in the second season opener “Amok Time” on September 13, 1967, as the Vulcan priestess T’Pau, in which Spock (Leonard Nimoy) must return to his home planet Vulcan and wed his betrothed T’Pring (Arlene Martel). The marriage ceremony becomes a fight to the death between Spock and Captain Kirk (William Shatner).

Happy listening! And live long and prosper!

Lorre Noir at Chicago Cinema

On Friday, September 4, 2026, “Noir City” returns to the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, for a week of film noir classics, including Peter Lorre, Dan Duryea, and June Vincent in a 35mm print of Black Angel (1946).

Black Angel will be shown at 7 pm on Saturday, September 5, presented by Eddie Muller, the “Czar of Noir” and host of Turner Classic Movies channel “Noir Alley”.

Tickets are $15 for General Admission; $14 for seniors, age 65 and older; and $12 for Music Box Theatre members. Tickets may be purchased at the cinema box office. Tickets may also be purchased through the Music Box website. A nominal fee will be added to each ticket purchased online.

A festival pass is also available – $150 for general admission, and $120 for Music Box members.

The Music Box Theatre is located at 3733 N. Southport Avenue, in Chicago, Illinois.

Parking near the Music Box Theatre is limited. Meters are available on Southport Avenue. Free street parking is available on and west of Ashland Avenue and north of Irving Park. Both streets are just blocks from the cinema. More information on parking, as well as directions to the Music Box, is available on the venue’s website.

The Noir City theme this year is “Face the Music” – 19 movies featuring murder, crime, and musicians. The festival begins on Friday, September 4, and ends on Thursday, September 10, 2026.

The Film Noir Foundation presents “Noir City” at many different cities across the United States. FNF founder Eddie Muller will introduce the movies screening on September 4, 5, and 6. FNF board member Alan K. Rode will host movies screening on September 7, 8, 9, and 10.

The full schedule is available on the Music Box Theatre website.

For more information, please contact the cinema box office at 773-871-6607.

Lark Cinema Celebrates Noir with Lorre

The historic Lark Theater, located in Larkspur, California, steps into the shadows of film noir the week of September 2, 2026, with a festival including Peter Lorre’s first sound movie M (1931) – and ending with the detective movie spoof The Cheap Detective (1978).

M will be shown on Friday, September 4, at 9:15 am, and again on Saturday, September 5, at 5:40 pm.

Admission is $10 for all seats, and $8 for Lark members. Tickets may be purchased at the box office. Tickets may also be purchased online through the Lark’s website. A nominal fee will be added to each ticket purchased online.

The Lark Theater is located at 549 Magnolia Avenue in Larkspur, California, in Marin County.

Parking is available in the public parking lot on Magnolia Avenue, across the street from the Lark.

The Lark Theater ends the film noir festival with a showing of The Cheap Detective (1978), an homage to classic films such as The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Casablanca (1942) – starring Peter Falk as Lou Peckinpaugh, imitating Humphrey Bogart.

Also in the cast are Dom DeLuis as Pepe Damascas, whose curly dark hair, wheezy laugh, and strong perfume are reminiscent of Peter Lorre as Joel Cairo in The Maltese Falcon, and the rotund John Houseman as Jasper Blubber, parodying Sydney Greenstreet.

A fun ending to a week of the dark and sinister. Happy viewing!

Fall Into Fall with Lorre in September

September brings falling leaves, and this month, Lorre fans can enjoy many of Peter's movies on the Turner Classic Movies channel, the Talking Pictures TV channel, and the Movies! Network channel, among others.

American times shown are Eastern Standard.

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September, 2026

September brings many Lorre films to American, British, and Canadian television channels, as well as the premium channel Cinemax.

Sept 1 (Tue), 12 noon, Cinemax – The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Sept 3 (Thurs), 8:30 am, Cinemax Action – The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Sept 5 (Sat), 8 am, TCM – The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934).

Sept 6 (Sun), 6:30 am, Movies! Network – All Through the Night (1942).

Sept 6 (Sun), 6:30 am, Cinemax Classics – The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Sept 7 (Mon), 2:10 am, ScreenPix – Tales of Terror (1962).

Sept 7 (Mon), 6:47 am, Cinemax Hits – The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Sept 7 (Mon), 5:30 pm, ScreenPix – Tales of Terror (1962).

Sept 8 (Tues), 3:53 am, Cinemax Action – The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Sept 9 (Wed), 12:34 pm, Cinemax – The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Sept 10 (Thurs), 6:14 am, Cinemax Classics – The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Sept 10 (Thurs), 7 pm, Silver Screen Classics channel – M (1931).

Sept 10 (Thurs), 8 pm, Movies! Network – All Through the Night (1942).

Sept 11 (Fri), 7:02 am, Cinemax Action – The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Sept 11 (Fri), 1 pm, Silver Screen Classics channel – M (1931).

Sept 12 (Sat), 8:45 am, ScreenPix Action – Tales of Terror (1962).

Sept 13 (Sun), 4:44 pm, Cinemax – The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Sept 15 (Tues), 8:18 am, Cinemax Hits – The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Sept 17 (Thurs), 10:50 am, Cinemax – The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Sept 18 (Fri), 1:27 am, Cinemax Classics – The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Sept 19 (Sat), 8:22 am, Cinemax Action – The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Sept 21 (Mon), 7:50 am, Talking Pictures TV, British television channel – Double Confession (1950).

Sept 24 (Thurs), 3:30 am, Movies! Network – All Through the Night (1942).

Sept 24 (Thurs), 6:30 pm, Talking Pictures TV  – Casbah (1948).

Sept 30 (Wed), 1:15 pm, Movies! Network – All Through the Night (1942).

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Sneak Peek at October, 2026

October means Halloween and spooky films. Here's a sneak peek at Lorre movies coming up in October.

Oct 2 (Fri), 2:45 pm, Talking Pictures TV, British televison channel channel – Peter Lorre: Behind the Mask (2024). Talking Pictures TV reruns the 2024 documentary on Peter's life and career.

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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.

The Peter Lorre News blog is an Amazon Affiliate and receives commissions on purchases. Thank you for supporting this blog by using our affiliate links.

• Amazon – United States
• Amazon – Canada
• Amazon – United Kingdom

Happy viewing!

Students! Amherst Cinema Seminar Includes Lorre!

On Monday, August 17, 2026, a favorite Cinema Seminar returns to the Amherst Cinema, located in Amherst, Massachusetts – The Making of Casablanca, taught by local filmmaker and film expert Nina Kleinberg.

Ms. Kleinberg will discuss the making of the classic war-time drama Casablanca (1942), including the lead and supporting cast members – Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and many others. She will also discuss the work of the crew behind the camera – the director, cinematographer, editor, and composer, among others.

The seminar will begin at 6:30 pm, with a screening of Casablanca following at approximately 7:30 pm.

Tickets are $18.50 for general admission; $16.75 for students and seniors (age 65 and older); and $13.50 for Amherst Cinema Members. Tickets may be purchased online through the Amherst Cinema website. A nominal processing fee will be added to each ticket purchased online.

The Amherst Cinema is located at 28 Amity Street in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Parking is available in both the Bank of America lot and the PeoplesBank lot during non-banking hours. Bank of America is located at 1 South Pleasant Street in Amherst, and cinemagoers may park in the lot after 5 pm on Mondays. The PeoplesBank is located at 56 Amity Street in Amherst, and cinemagoers may park in the lot after 4 pm on Mondays. More information about parking is available on the Amherst Cinema website.

Since graduating film school at the University of Southern California and working as a film editor in the 1970s, Nina Kleinberg has had a long-term interest in movies and their history. She has presented a number of programs at the Amherst Cinema, and her seminar on Casablanca is a favorite.

Lorre fans in the area of Amherst, Massachusetts, have the opportunity to enjoy her program again.

For more information, contact the cinema at (413) 253-2547.

SiriusXM Hitchcock Birthday Includes Lorre

During the week of August 10, 2026, Radio Classics channel host Greg Bell celebrates the birthday of British director Alfred Hitchcock with a two-hour block of old-time radio adaptations of two of his films and an episode of Peter Lorre’s 1947 summer series Mystery in the Air, airing over the satellite radio service SiriusXM.

The birthday tribute includes the hour-long Lux Radio Theatre, “Strangers on a Train” (December 2, 1951); Mystery in the Air, “The Lodger” (August 14, 1947); and The Academy Award Theatre, “Shadow of a Doubt” (September 11, 1946).

Early in his career, Alfred Hitchcock directed the silent thriller The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), based on the 1913 novel The Lodger, written by Marie Belloc Lowndes. In 1947, Lowndes’ novel was adapted for an episode of Lorre’s radio series Mystery in the Air.

The Hitchcock birthday block will air these dates and times.

Tuesday, August 11 ~
3 am Pacific
6 am Eastern

Thursday, August 13 ~
7 pm Pacific
10 pm Eastern

Saturday, August 15 ~
11 am Pacific
2 pm Eastern

The full schedule for the week of Monday, August 10, to Sunday, August 16, 2026, is available on Greg Bell's website.

SiriusXM airs Radio Classics over channel 148. Subscribers may also listen to the programs over the internet or the SiriusXM app. Log-in with your User ID and password. Not a subscriber? A trial is also available for a nominal price through the SiriusXM radio website.

Peter Lorre’s association with the British director, born on August 14, 1899, began in the early 1930s with roles in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) and Secret Agent (1936), and continued into the 1950s with appearances in two episodes of Hitchcock’s weekly television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Happy listening!

Los Angeles Museum Includes Lorre

As part of their series “Summer of Thrills”, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, located in Los Angeles, California, will present a showing of M (1933), the first sound movie of both Peter Lorre and German director Fritz Lang, on Saturday, August 8, 2026.

At 2:30 pm, Howard A. Rodman, governor of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, will present the film in the Ted Mann Theater, located in the Saban Building.

Tickets are $5 for all seats. Tickets may be purchased at the Museum box-office or online through the Museum website.

The Academy of Motion Pictures is located at 6067 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.

Parking is available in several public parking lots near the Museum. More information about parking is available on the Museum website.

The “Summer of Thrills” movie series runs from Friday, June 12, to Monday, August 17, 2026. The full schedule is available on the Museum website.