Lorre Film Kicks off Austin Hitchcock Fest

The Austin Film Society begins its series “Hitchcock Before Hollywood” on Thursday, April 4, 2019, with a party – and a showing of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), Peter Lorre’s first Hitchcock movie and first English-speaking role, as Abbott, leader of a gang of anarchists operating out of a church in the East End borough of Wapping in London, England.

The festival begins at 6 pm with a party, including complimentary tea from The Steeping Room, a local Austin tea-room. Dennis Campa, of KOOP Radio’s “Adventures in Sound”, will play records from the 1930s. A Hitchcock-themed photo booth will also be available.

The Man Who Knew Too Much will begin at 7 pm.

All movies in the Hitchcock series will be screened at the AFS Cinema in The Linc (formerly the Lincoln Village) shopping center, located at 6406 North Interstate-35, in Austin, Texas. Directions to The Linc are available on the Austin Film Society website.

Admission for The Man Who Knew Too Much is $11.25 for all seats. Tickets may be purchased at the cinema box-office, as well as online through the AFS website. A nominal processing fee will be charged for each ticket purchased online.

The “Hitchcock Before Hollywood” series begins Thursday, April 4, and runs until Sunday, April 28, 2019. The full schedule is available on the AFS website.