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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, 2019
Every August, the Turner Classic Movies channel presents their “Summer Under the Stars” festival, and although Peter Lorre does not have a “Day” this year, some of his famous co-stars do.
Aug. 11 (Sun), 7:30 am, Turner Classic Movies – All Through the Night (1942). August 11 is “Humphrey Bogart Day”, and two of Peter’s movies with his off-screen buddy Humphrey Bogart will be shown, beginning with the second movie the two actors made – a spy comedy set in New York City.
Aug. 11 (Sun), 12 noon, TCM – Passage to Marseille (1944). “Humphrey Bogart Day” continues with the fourth movie Peter made with Bogie, and his final movie with his pal while Peter was under contract with Warner Bros.
Aug. 26 (Mon), 8 pm, TCM – The Maltese Falcon (1941). It’s “Mary Astor Day” today, and TCM presents the only film Peter made with Mary Astor, as well as his first movie with Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet, with whom Peter would go on to make many more films.
September, 2019
September brings several Lorre movies to the TCM schedule, including some films rarely shown and two birthday salutes to Lorre co-stars.
Sept. 11 (Wed), 3 am, TCM – Around the World in 80 Days (1956). TCM's prime time theme in September is "100 Years of United Artists", and tonight's theme is "The 40s and 50s", with thise all-star extravaganza, starring David Nevin as the intrepid Victorian Englishman who makes a bet with his Club cronies that he can circle the globe in 80 days.
Sept. 14 (Sat), 6 pm, Movies! Network – The Beast with Five Fingers (1946). In one of his final movies at Warner Bros, Peter plays the private librarian of a former concert pianist (Victor Francen), residing in an Italian villa. When the pianist dies in a fall down the staircase, friends discover to their horror that his right hand has been cut off. Is the hand now roaming the villa, wreaking revenge on anyone who would try to change the pianist's will?
Sept. 16 (Mon), 6 am, TCM – Confidential Agent (1945). TCM celebrates the birthday of Lauren Bacall with a day of Bacall movies, and the day kicks off with the only movie Peter made with Lauren Bacall, newly married to Humphrey Bogart.
Sept. 18 (Wed), 9:30 am, Movies! Network – Beat the Devil (1954).
Sept. 18 (Wed), 6 pm, Movies! Network – Beat the Devil (1954).
Sept. 21 (Sat), 2 am, TCM – The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934).
Sept. 23 (Mon), 6 am, Movies! Network – The Beast with Five Fingers (1946).
Sept. 23 (Mon), 3:30 pm, TCM – Quicksand (1950). TCM salutes the birthday of Mickey Rooney, and on the schedule is the only movie Peter made with Mickey, who plays a car mechanic who falls deeper and deeper in petty crime, as he tries to impress Peter’s former girlfriend (Jeanne Cagney).
Sept. 30 (Mon), 6 pm, Movies! Network – The Beast with Five Fingers (1946).
October, 2019
October means Halloween and horror movies, and among the Lorre movies on TCM’s schedule is one of the few horror films Peter appeared in.
Oct. 4 (Fri), 11:30 am, Movies! Network – The Beast with Five Fingers (1946).
Oct. 6 (Sun), 8 am, TCM – The Constant Nymph (1943).
Oct. 8 (Tues), 9 am, TCM – Strange Cargo (1940). The daytime theme is "The Oldest Profession", with a day of actresses who played prostitutes on film, including Joan Crawford as "an entertainer" in the French penal colony in Guiana.
Oct. 8 (Tues), 1:30 am, MeTV – Alfred Hitchcock Presents, "The Diplomatic Corpse" (CBS, Dec. 8, 1957).
Oct. 11 (Fri), 6 am, Movies! Network – The Beast with Five Fingers (1946).
Oct. 14 (Mon), 10:30 am, Movies! Network – The Beast with Five Fingers (1946).
Oct. 17 (Thurs), 7 am, TCM – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940).
Oct. 22 (Tues), 4:30 pm, TCM – The Story of Mankind (1957). The daytime theme is "Marx Brothers Marathon", as TCM presents a day of movies starring the Marx Brothers, including this all-star extravaganza directed by Irwin Allen.
Oct. 25 (Fri), 10 pm, Movies! Network – The Beast with Five Fingers (1946).
Oct. 28 (Mon), 4 pm, Movies! Network – The Beast with Five Fingers (1946).
Oct. 30 (Wed), 8 pm, TCM – Mad Love (1935). The prime-time theme on TCM is "Short and Sweet – 100 Terrific Movies Less than 75 Minutes Long", and the category tonight is "Horror". Celebrate Halloween with this supernatural film about a knife thrower’s (Edward Brophy) hands transplanted onto the wrists of a concert pianist (Colin Clive) – courtesy of a brilliant Parisian doctor (Peter Lorre) in love with the pianist's actress wife (Frances Drake).
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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