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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, 2018
August brings the annual “Summer on the Stars” film festival on Turner Classic Movies – and this year, Peter Lorre is among the stars with a full day devoted to his movies.
Aug. 24 (Fri), Turner Classic Movies channel – It’s “Peter Lorre Day” in the “Summer Under the Stars” fest, and the following movies are on the schedule ~
- 6 am – The Face Behind the Mask (1941)
- 7:30 am – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- 9:45 am – Silk Stockings (1957)
- 12 noon – You’ll Find Out (1940)
- 2 pm – All Through the Night (1942)
- 4 pm – The Comedy of Terrors (1964)
- 5:45 pm – Scent of Mystery (1960)
- 8 pm – M (1931)
- 10 pm – Crime and Punishment (1935)
- 11:45 pm – The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
- 1:30 am – The Verdict (1946)
- 3:15 am – Mad Love (1935)
- 4:30 am – Island of Doomed Men (1940)
Aug. 29 (Wed), 4 am, Movies! Network – Quicksand (1950).
Aug. 29 (Wed), 4 am, TCM – Confidential Agent (1945). On “Lauren Bacall Day” on TCM, Bacall was already “Mrs. Humphrey Bogart” when she appeared with Charles Boyer in a spy thriller set in London, including Peter Lorre as an agent supposedly helping Boyer.
September, 2018
September brings a handful of Lorre movies on Turner Classic Movies, including a film new to the channel.
Sept. 4 (Tues), 4 pm, TCM – Hotel Berlin (1945). TCM's daytime theme is "Hotel Happenings", and quite a lot happens in this day of movies set in hotels, including Vicki Baum’s sequel set in a Berlin hotel in the final days of World War 2, with spies, traitors, Underground members, and double-crossers of all sorts.
Sept. 5 (Wed), 9:30 am, TCM – The Big Circus (1959). The daytime theme is "Vincent Price", and in a day of Price movies is this circus film, new to the TCM channel, in which Vincent Price plays the circus ringmaster and Peter Lorre loved playing a clown.
Sept. 7 (Fri), 6 am, Movies! Network – Beat the Devil (1954).
Sept. 18 (Tues), 6:15 am, TCM – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940). The daytime theme is "Cinematography by Nicholas Musuraca", and the cinematography is a highlight in this movie, considered the first film noir.
Sept. 18 (Tues), 4 am, Movies! Network – Beat the Devil (1954).
Sept. 22 (Sat), 6 am, Movies! Network – Quicksand (1950).
Sept. 23 (Sun), 12 noon, TCM – The Constant Nymph (1943).
Sept. 29 (Sat), 8 am, Movies! Network – Beat the Devil (1954).
October, 2018
October means Halloween, horror movies – and actors like Peter Lorre, who counts both horror and non-horror films in his filmography.
Oct. 6 (Sat), 9:30 pm, Antenna TV channel – The Jack Benny Program (CBS, Jan. 22, 1963).
Oct. 7 (Sun), 2 am, MGM HD channel – The Comedy of Terrors (1964).
Oct. 8 (Mon), 6 am, TCM – Silk Stockings (1957). TCM salutes the birthday of director Rouben Mamoulian, who directed Peter as a singer and dancer in this Fred Astaire musical.
Oct. 12 (Fri), 11 am, TCM – Around the World in 80 Days (1956). The TCM daytime theme is "On the Seas", and that's especially true of Peter's cameo in this all-star extravaganza – he plays a Japanese steward on a ship bound for Yokohama.
Oct. 13 (Sat), 6:15 am, TCM – They Met in Bombay (1941).
Oct. 14 (Sun), 1 pm, Movies! Network – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).
Oct. 17 (Wed), 3 pm, Movies! Network – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).
Oct. 20 (Sat), 3 pm, Movies! Network – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).
Oct. 22 (Mon), 2:15 pm, TCM – The Constant Nymph (1943).
Oct. 26 (Fri), 4 am, TCM – The Beast with Five Fingers (1946).
Oct. 29 (Mon), 8 am, Movies! Network – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).
Oct. 29 (Mon), 11 pm, TCM – Mad Love (1935). Tonight's theme is "200 Years of Frankenstein". In his first American film, and his only horror film, Peter plays Dr. Gogol, a brilliant Parisian surgeon who loves an actress (Frances Drake) married to a concert pianist (Colin Clive) and tries to help her husband when his hands are injured in a train wreck.
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 may be purchased from Amazon U.S., Amazon Canada, and Amazon U.K, as well as other booksellers.
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