Gettysburg WW2 Weekend Includes Lorre Classic

A weekend of events commemorating World War II in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, kicks off with a showing of the WW2 Peter Lorre classic Casablanca (1942) at the historic Majestic Theater on Thursday, September 14, 2023.

The movie will begin at 7 pm.

Admission is $8 for all seats. Tickets may be purchased at the Majestic box-office. Tickets may be also be purchased through the Majestic website. A nominal booking fee will be added to each ticket purchased online.

The Majestic Theater is located at 25 Carlisle Street in Gettysburg, PA. Metered parking is available on the street in front of the theater, with a parking garage located in Race Horse Alley, directly behind the theater. More information about parking, as well as directions to the cinema, are available on the Majestic website.

“1943: America At War” is this year’s theme as the National Park Service salutes World War II at the Eisenhower National Historic Site, the Gettysburg home of President Dwight Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie, who bought a farm outside this small town after serving two terms in the White House.

The World War II weekend will run from Friday, September 15, to Sunday, September 17, 2023. Events include a Living History Camp, ranger-guided walking tours, tours of the Eisenhower home, speakers, and exhibits. The full schedule is available on the National Park Service website.

Lorre at Two London Cinemas in September

Lorre fans in London, England, will have several opportunities to catch Peter on the big screen in September, 2023, when two cinemas show the classic films Casablanca (1942) and The Maltese Falcon (1941).

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The Prince Charles Cinema, located in Leicester Square, will screen a 35mm print of Casablanca on these dates and times ~

• September 9, Saturday – 5:30 pm
• September 11, Monday – 3:50 pm
• September 22, Friday – 6:30 pm

Monday through Friday matinee prices are £6 for cinema members and £10.50 for non-members and carers. Evening admission is £11 for cinema members, £14 for non-members, and £14 for carers (CEA Card).

Tickets may be purchased at the box-office or online through the venue’s website. Tickets purchased online will be charged a nominal booking fee. More information about ticket prices and booking is available on the venue’s website.

The Prince Charles Cinema is located at 7 Leicester Place, at the northeast corner of Leicester Square, in London, England. The closest tube stations are Leicester Square and Picadilly Circus.

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The British Film Institute, located on the Southbank, will screen in 4k The Maltese Falcon on these dates and times ~

• September 10, Sunday – 11:50 am
• September 26, Tuesday – 8:55 pm

Tickets are £9 for all seats. Tickets may be purchased at the box-office or online through the venue’s website. Tickets purchased online will be charged a nominal booking fee.

The BFI Southbank is located on Belvedere Road, Southbank, in London, England. Please enter through the Riverfront and Theatre Avenue entrances. The closest tube stations are Waterloo (South Bank exit), Embankment and Charing Cross (cross Hungerford Bridge to reach the South Bank).

Bogart Fest in Palo Alto Includes Lorre

The historic Stanford Theatre, located in Palo Alto, California, begins a “Best of Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn” festival on Friday, September 8, 2023, and included on the schedule are two films Bogart made with his onscreen and off-screen pal Peter Lorre.

Casablanca (1942) will open the festival the weekend of September 8 on a double-bill with Roman Holiday (1953).

Beat the Devil (1954) will close the festival the weekend of September 29 on a double-bill with How to Steal a Million (1966).

Casablanca will be shown these days and times ~

Friday, September 8 ~
5:35 pm and 9:40 pm

Saturday, September 9 ~
5:35 pm and 9:40 pm

Sunday, September 10 ~
5:35 pm and 9:40 pm

Beat the Devil will be shown these days and times ~

Friday, September 29 ~
5:50 pm and 9:45 pm

Saturday, September 30 ~
5:50 pm and 9:45 pm

Sunday, October 1 ~
5:50 pm and 9:45 pm

The full schedule is available on the Stanford Theatre website.

Before and after the 7:30 pm showings of Roman Holiday September 8 to 10; and How to Steal a Million September 29 to October 1, one of the Stanford’s “Masters of the Mighty Wurlitzer” will play the Wurlitzer theater organ during the intermission.

Admission is $7 for adults, and $5 for youth (18 and under) and seniors (65 and over). Tickets may be purchased at the box office on the day of the show.

The Stanford Theatre is located at 221 University Avenue in Palo Alto, California. Look for the cinema’s large neon marquee – a landmark along University Avenue in the downtown area.

Parking is available at meters along the street in front of the cinema, as well as two parking garages within two blocks of the Stanford. The Bryant / Lytton Parking Garage is located at 445 Bryant Avenue, one block north of University Avenue. The High Street Parking Garage is located at 528 High Street, one block south of University Avenue.

More information about parking is available on the Stanford Theatre's website.

For more information, please call the Stanford Theatre at 650-324-3700.

Star Trek Salute Includes Lorre

The week of September 4, 2023, old-time radio host Greg Bell celebrates the anniversary of Gene Roddenberry’s landmark science-fiction TV series Star Trek with 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 Kelley, who played the Enterprise doctor Dr. McCoy.

Airing on the Radio Classics channel over the satellite radio service SiriusXM, the block includes an episode of Peter Lorre’s mid-1940s series for the Armed Forces Radio Service Mystery Playhouse – “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper”, originally airing over NBC on the series Mollé Mystery Theatre, Tuesday, February 27, 1945.

The schedule ~

• 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
• Have Gun, Will Travel, “Helen of Abajinian” (January 4, 1959) – Written by Gene Roddenberry

The programs will air these days and times ~

Tuesday, September 5 ~
7 am Pacific
10 am Eastern

Friday, September 8 ~
7 pm Pacific
10 pm Eastern

Sunday, September 10 ~
11 am Pacific
2 pm Eastern

The Radio Classics channel airs over Channel 148 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.

Star Trek began its 3-year run on September 8, 1966. Robert Bloch, who scripted three episodes of Star Trek, wrote the original short story "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper" for the magazine Weird Tales in 1943.

Peter Lorre also has another tie to the original Star Trek series. His first wife, Celia Lovsky, appeared in the second season opener, “Amok Time”, airing on September 15, 1967. In this Spock-featured episode, the Vulcan science officer Spock must return to his home planet and marry his betrothed. Officiating at the wedding – the Vulcan priestess T’Pau, played by Celia Lovsky.

Happy listening!

Fall into Fall with Lorre Movies on TV

September means the fall, the start of the holiday season, and a handful of Peter Lorre movies on the Turner Classic Movies channel, as well as other channels, including Talking Pictures TV.

American times shown are Eastern Standard.


September, 2023

September means autumn and the holiday season soon on the way. Catch these Lorre films on television.

Sept 3 (Sun), 3 pm, Talking Pictures TV – The Chase (1946). Peter Lorre plays Gino, bodyguard to a vicious gangster (Steve Cochran) in this film noir set in Miami, Florida.

Sept 6 (Wed), 5:45 am, Movies! Network – Hollywood Steps Out (1941). An animated Peter Lorre joins other animated Hollywood stars in this cartoon from the early 1940s.

Sept 7 (Thurs), 9:35 pm, ScreenPix Voices – Tales of Terror (1962). Peter plays Montressor Herringbone, a drunkard who drives his wife (Joyce Jameson) into the arms of an expert wine taster (Vincent Price) – and then takes revenge.

Sept 8 (Fri), 11:10 am, Talking Pictures TV – The Chase (1946).

Sept 8 (Fri), 11:30 am, ScreenPix Voices – Tales of Terror (1962).

Sept 12 (Tues), 2 pm, TCM – Hollywood Canteen (1944). The daytime theme is "Hollywood Stars as Themselves", including this all-star musical featuring Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet.

Sept 25 (Mon), 5:15 am, TCM – The Cross of Lorraine (1943). The primetime theme is "How to Escape from Nazis", including this war-time drama set in a German prisoner of war camp.


Sneak Peek at October, 2023

October means Halloween and some Lorre horror movies on TCM.

Oct 2 (Mon), 6 am, TCM – The Story of Mankind (1957). TCM salutes the birthday of Groucho Marx with a day of Marx Brothers movies, beginning with this all-star extravaganza about good and evil.

Oct 7 (Sat), 10 pm, TCM – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). TCM presents a double-feature of movies starring Josephine Hull, including this dark comedy about two sweet old ladies (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair) with an unusual hobby. Note – In Canada, TCM will show Four Wives (1939) instead of Arsenic and Old Lace.

Oct 16 (Mon), 10:30 am, TCM – Casablanca (1942). The daytime theme is "Morocco", including this classic romance set in the North African city of World War II refugees and the people who prey on them.

Oct 28 (Sat), 10:15 pm, TCM – The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). TCM presents a double-feature of The Man Who Knew Too Much, beginning with the 1956 remake, followed by the 1934 original, which was Peter Lorre's first English-speaking movie role.

Oct 30 (Mon), 9 am, TCM – Mad Love (1935). Halloween is on the way, and TCM salutes the holiday with a day of "Halloween Horror", including Peter Lorre's first American movie. Note – In Canada, TCM will show The Beast with Five Fingers (1946), instead of Mad Love.

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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 ~

• Amazon U.S.
• Amazon Canada
• Amazon U.K

Happy viewing!

Upstate New York Series Includes Lorre Mystery

The historic Capitol Theatre, located in Rome, New York, ends its 6-movie series “Great American Novels Made Into Great American Movies” with a showing of the Dashiell Hammett mystery classic The Maltese Falcon (1941) on Thursday, August 10, 2023.

The program will begin at 7:30 pm.

Admission is $7 for adults; $6 for seniors, veterans, and students; $5 for Friends of the Capitol Theatre; and $3 for children age 12 and under.

Tickets may be purchased at the cinema box-office. Tickets may also be purchased through the venue’s website. A nominal booking fee will be added to each ticket purchased online.

The Capitol Theatre is located at 220 West Dominick Street in Rome, New York.

Parking is available on West Dominick Street in front of the theater. Parking is also available in a lot off Erie Boulevard.

The film series was presented in conjunction with Jervis Public Library and the Keaton & Lloyd Bookshop, located at 236 West Dominick Street, in Rome, New York.

The Maltese Falcon stars Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and several Warner Bros. stock players. Detective Sam Spade (Bogart) is drawn into a hunt for a golden falcon statuette, covered in gems, by a trio of international criminals (Astor, Lorre, and Greenstreet) anxious to obtain the statuette for themselves.

For more information, please contact the Capitol Theatre box-office at 315-337-6453.

SiriusXM Hitchcock Birthday Salute Includes Lorre

During the week of August 7, 2023, Lorre fans will have the opportunity to enjoy an episode of Peter’s 1947 summer series Mystery in the Air when the satellite radio provider SiriusXM airs “The Lodger” as a segment of director Alfred Hitchcock’s birthday block.

The birthday block 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).

Host Greg Bell will begin the Hitchcock birthday block on these dates and times ~

Wednesday, August 9 –
11 am Pacific
2 pm Eastern

Thursday, August 10 –
11 pm

Friday, August 11 –
2 am Eastern

Sunday, August 13 –
7 pm Pacific
10 pm Eastern

Mystery in the Air, “The Lodger”, will air these dates and times ~

Wednesday, August 9 –
12 noon Pacific
3 pm Eastern

Friday, August 11 –
12 midnight
3 am Eastern

Sunday, August 13 –
8 pm Pacific
11 pm Eastern

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.

Alfred Hitchcock was born on August 14, 1899. The accomplished director of mystery and suspense hired Peter Lorre for the part of Abbott, the gang leader, in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), and later brought him back to England for a supporting role in Secret Agent (1936). In the 1950s, Peter Lorre appeared in two episodes of Hitchcock’s weekly television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Peter Lorre’s radio series Mystery in the Air replaced The Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Show for 13 weeks during the summer of 1947, beginning with “The Tell-Tale Heart” on July 3 and ending with “Crime and Punishment” on September 25, 1947.

In “The Lodger”, Peter Lorre co-stars with his regular Mystery in the Air cast, including Harry Morgan as “The Voice of Mystery”, Barbara Eiler, Eric Snowden, Raymond Lawrence, Rolfe Sedan, Conrad Binyon, and guest-star Agnes Moorehead, making her second appearance in the series; her first was “The Interruption” (July 24, 1947).

Set in Victorian London in the late 1880s, “The Lodger” features Peter Lorre as the mysterious Mr. Sleuth, who rents a room from a couple looking to make a little extra money in their home. His landlady (Moorehead) soon comes to suspect her Lodger might be the killer of young music hall girls.

In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen Youngkin discusses Peter’s work with Alfred Hitchcock, as well as his career on radio, beginning in Germany in the early 1930s.

A complete-to-date list of Peter’s radio appearances is available in the appendix of The Lost One.

The book is available through many brick-and-mortar bookshops, as well as these online merchants ~

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

Happy listening!

Cary Grant Fest in Palo Alto Includes Lorre

The historic Stanford Theatre, located in Palo Alto, California, will show the Cary Grant comedy Arsenic and Old Lace (1941) the weekend of August 5 and 6, 2023, as part of their film festival “The Best of Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock”.

The Peter Lorre classic, on a double-bill with Monkey Business (1952), will be shown at these times ~

• Saturday, August 5 – 3:30 pm and 7:30 pm
• Sunday, August 6 – 3:30 pm and 7:30 pm

Monkey Business will be shown at 5:40 pm and 9:40 pm both days.

The Summer 2023 film festival began Saturday, July 1, 2023, and will run until Sunday, September 3. The full schedule is available on the venue’s website.

Before and after the 7:30 pm showings of Arsenic and Old Lace, one of the Stanford’s “Masters of the Mighty Wurlitzer” will play the Wurlitzer theater organ during the intermission.

Admission is $7 for adults, and $5 for youth (18 and under) and seniors (65 and over). Tickets may be purchased at the box office on the day of the show.

The Stanford Theatre is located at 221 University Avenue in Palo Alto, California. Look for the cinema’s large neon marquee – a landmark along University Avenue in the downtown area.

Parking is available at meters along the street in front of the cinema, as well as two parking garages within two blocks of the Stanford. The Bryant / Lytton Parking Garage is located at 445 Bryant Avenue, one block north of University Avenue. The High Street Parking Garage is located at 528 High Street, one block south of University Avenue.

More information about parking is available on the Stanford Theatre's website.

For more information, please call the Stanford Theatre at 650-324-3700.

Boston Library Virtual Event Includes Lorre

The Kanopy Klub at the Boston Public Library, located in Boston, Massachusetts, invites movie fans to particulate in a virtual discussion of Peter Lorre’s classic Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) on Thursday, August 3, 2023.

Registration is required. To register, eMail Lauren Lepanto at llepanto@bpl.org.

Watch The Man Who Knew Too Much any time through Kanopy, the free on-demand movie and documentary software available through the Boston Public Library.

Then at 7 pm on Thursday, August 3, join the virtual discussion of the movie.

The online event is free for everyone.

BFI Disney Salute Includes Lorre

Throughout July and August, 2023, the British Film Institute series “Making Magic: 100 Years of Disney” with showings of animated and live-action classic films from the Walt Disney Company. In August, the BFI focuses on literary adaptations, including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), starring Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Peter Lorre, and Paul Lukas in the lead roles.

London’s British Film Institute continues its salute to the 100th anniversary of the Walt Disney studio with several showings of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) during the month of August, 2023.

The film will be shown on the following dates and times ~

• Friday, August 4 – 6 pm
• Sunday, August 14 – 6:10 pm
• Tuesday, August 22 – 2:20 pm
• Wednesday, August 23 – 8:20 pm

The full schedule is available on the BFI website.

Admission is open to non-members of the BFI, as well as members. Non-members will be charged a per-ticket booking fee of £1 for each ticket sold, to a maximum of £3 per transaction.

Evening and weekend prices are £11 for BFI members, £13 for non-members, and £3 for children 16 and under. For senior citizens (age 60 and above), students, unwaged and disabled visitors who are also BFI members, admission is £9.20, and for non-members £11.20.

Weekday matinee prices are £6 for BFI members, £8 for non-members, and £3 for children 16 and under.

More information about ticket prices is available on the BFI website.

Tickets may be purchased through the BFI box office, located in the main foyer. Tickets may also be purchased online through the BFI website. From the page about 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, click the “Buy” button beside the date and time of choice. A Booking Fee will be added to all online purchases.

The BFI Southbank is located on Belvedere Road, on the South Bank of the Thames in London, England. Directions to the BFI are available on the cinema’s website.

Parking is available under the National Theatre or at APCOA South Bank. The Congestion Charge applies. The BFI is also well served by public transportation. The closest underground station is Waterloo. Exit Waterloo by the South Bank exit. More information about public transportation is available on the venue’s website.