Thanksgiving with Lorre at the Brattle

After the turkey dinner, or the Black Friday shopping – and throughout the holiday weekend – Lorre fans in the area of Cambridge, Massachusetts, can head on over to the Brattle Theatre for a special double-feature of The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Casablanca (1942) when the Brattle presents “Give Thanks for Bogie!” on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Nov. 28 to Dec. 1, 2019.

Give thanks for Lorre!

The weekend schedule includes ~

Thursday, Nov. 28 ~
The Maltese Falcon – 4:45 pm
Casablanca – 7 pm

Friday, Nov. 29 ~
Casablanca – 2:30 pm, 7 pm
The Maltese Falcon – 4:45 pm

Saturday, Nov. 30 ~
Casablanca – 12:15 pm, 4:45 pm
The Maltese Falcon – 2:30 pm, 7 pm

Sunday, Dec. 1 ~
Casablanca – 12:15 pm, 4:45 pm
The Maltese Falcon – 2:30 pm, 7 pm

Both films will be screened on 35mm prints.

Matinee prices are $10 for general admission, students with proper ID, and Brattle members; $9 for children (age 12 and under) and seniors (age 65 and older).

Evening prices are $12 for general admission, students with proper ID, and Brattle members; $9 for children (age 12 and under) and seniors (age 65 and older).

Tickets for both movies as a double-feature are $13 for all seats.

Tickets may be purchased at the box office, which opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day. Tickets may also be purchased online through the cinema’s website. Click the show-time and select a ticket option from the list. Tickets may be picked up at the “Will Call” office. A nominal fee will be added to all online purchases.

The Brattle Theatre is located in Brattle Hall, at 40 Brattle Street, a block from Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Also located in the building are the Algiers Café and the Alden and Harlow Restaurant. The cinema’s entrance is on the left side of the building – look for the sidewalk poster case and the marquee.

Parking is available at meters around Harvard Square, as well as nearby parking garages. The Brattle Theatre box office will validate parking tickets for the Charles Square Garage and the University Place Garage.

The Brattle Theatre is well-served by public transportation – both MBTA bus routes and the subway.

More information about parking and public transportation, as well as directions, is available on the Brattle Theatre website.

For more information, please call the cinema at 617-876-6837.

London Cinema Schedules Lorre Film

Peter Lorre fans in London, England, are in for a special treat on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019, when the Prince Charles Cinema, located in the West End, celebrates the 65th anniversary of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) with a showing of a 35mm print of the Walt Disney classic.

The film will begin at 3:25 pm in the Upstairs screening room.

Admission prices are £7.50 for members of the cinema, £6 for children, and £10 for non-members. Tickets may be purchased at the box-office or online through the cinema’s website. More information about ticket prices and memberships is available on the cinema’s website.

The Prince Charles Cinema is located at 7 Leicester Place, in London, England. The nearest underground station is Leicester Square. Directions to the cinema, as well as information on public transportation, are available on the venue’s website.

For more information, please call the cinema at 020 7494 3654.

Guilford College Presents M

Guilford College German Club, through Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, continues their “Subtitle Cinema” movie series with a showing of Peter Lorre’s first sound film M (1931) on Wednesday, November 13, 2019.

The movie begins at 7:30 pm in the Leak Room, in Duke Memorial Hall.

Admission is free for everyone.

The series “The Struggle for Justice: German Films of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933)” is shown every Wednesday throughout the Fall 2019 semester. Upcoming movies are listed in the Calendar of Events on the Guilford College website.

Duke Memorial Hall is located at George Fox Drive, near the west entrance of Guilford College near New Garden Road in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Parking is available along George Fox Drive. More information about Guilford College, including directions and a campus map, is available on the college website.

Date Night with Lorre on Tybee Island

Casablanca (1942) will be the “Date Night” feature at the historic Tybee Post Theater, located on Tybee Island in Georgia, on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019.

The film begins at 7 pm.

Admission is $10 for all seats. A beverage, such as beer, wine, or soft drink, is Included with the price of admission.

Tickets may be purchased at the cinema’s box-office. Tickets may also be purchased online through the cinema’s website. Click the "Buy Tickets” link on the Casablanca page. A processing fee of $1 will be added to each ticket ordered online.

The Tybee Post Theater is located at 10 Van Horne Avenue in the heart of the Fort Screven Historic District, on Tybee Island in Georgia.

Metered parking is available in front of the theater along Van Horne Avenue, as well as nearby 2nd Avenue and in Jaycee Park. The theater encourages bike-riding to the venue – and a bike rack is provided in front of the Post Theater. More information about parking, as well as directions to the venue, is available on the Tybee Post Theater website.

For more information, please call the cinema at 912-472-4790.

Built in 1930, the Tybee Post Theater was the movie theater for the soldiers and their families stationed at Fort Screven, the Army base on Tybee Island. From 1897 to 1947, Fort Screven served as an important part of the United States’ Coastal Defense System, guarding the mouth of the Savannah River to the end of World War II.

In 1947, the fort was decommissioned and sold to the town of Tybee. Fort Screven soon became a popular tourist destination, with museums, historic attractions, restaurants, and lodging.

In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen D. Youngkin discusses Peter Lorre’s support of American soldiers during and following World War II. Peter often visited wounded soldiers in veterans’ hospitals and donated his time to the Armed Forces Radio Services (AFRS), which sent radio programs overseas to American bases for the entertainment of men and women in service.

For the AFRS, Peter hosted the radio series Mystery Playhouse, which offered specially-edited episodes of various mystery and suspense radio shows, such as The Whistler, Mr. and Mrs. North, and many others. Peter recorded opening and closing segments and invited listeners into the Green Room for a preview of the next episode.

And occasionally, Peter’s movies would be shown to soldiers ahead of release to American cinemas. This was the case with Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), filmed in 1941, but not seen in theaters until 1944, when the Broadway play ended its run. However, bases, hospital ships, and other military venues were able to enjoy Arsenic and Old Lace before 1944.

Perhaps the Tybee Post theater was one of those venues . . . .

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.

Click on any of these links, and the order page will open.

Holidays with Lorre on Television

As the holidays approach and 2019 comes to an end, Lorre fans have many movies to look forward to on the Turner Classic Movies channel, as well as other channels.

All times shown are Eastern Standard.

Peter Lorre's page on the TV Guide Channel website lists the Lorre films scheduled on various television channels over a 2-week period.

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November, 2019

November brings Thanksgiving and a handful of Lorre movies.

Nov. 2 (Sat), 2 am, Turner Classic Movies – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

Nov. 6 (Wed), 8:45 am, Movies!Network – Beat the Devil (1954).

Nov 6 (Wed), 8 am, TCM – Casablanca (1942). In November, TCM salutes American cinematographers with a daytime theme, and prime-time theme, “100th Anniversary of the American Society of Cinematographers”.

Nov. 6 (Wed), 10:10 pm, Movies!Network – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

Nov. 19 (Tues), 10:30 pm, Movies!Network – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

Nov 23 (Sat), 12 noon, TCM – The Maltese Falcon (1941). In November, TCM salutes American cinematographers with a daytime theme, and prime-time theme, “100th Anniversary of the American Society of Cinematographers”.

Nov. 29 (Fri), 10:30 am, Movies!Network – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

Nov 30 (Sat), 12:15 am, TCM – The Mask of Dimitrios (1944). Eddie Muller welcomes to “Noir Alley” this Warner Bros. thriller. Peter Lorre plans a Dutch mathematics professor turned mystery author who learns of the death of a notorious international criminal and decides to research his life for his next novel.

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December, 2019

In December, TCM celebrates the birthday of Sydney Greenstreet, one of Peter Lorre’s best-known co-stars.

Dec. 1 (Sun), 10 am, TCM – The Mask of Dimitrios (1944). Lorre fans who missed the midnight showing of this “Noir Alley” selection can catch up with it in mid-morning

Dec. 11 (Wed), 1:30 pm, TCM – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). The daytime theme is “Eccentric Relations”, and included is this dark comedy in which a dramatic critic (Cary Grant) on his way to his honeymoon finds out his dear elderly aunts perform “mercy killings” on lonely old gentleman.

Dec. 23 (Mon), 11 am, TCM – The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Dec. 27 (Fri), 6 am, TCM – The Verdict (1946). TCM salutes the birthday of Sydney Greenstreet, who appeared in a total of nine movies with Peter Lorre. The Greenstreet fest begins with their final movie together – a locked-room mystery set in Victorian London.

Dec. 27 (Fri), 7:30 am, TCM – Passage to Marseille (1944). TCM continues the birthday salute to Sydney Greenstreet with this war-time drama.

Dec. 27 (Fri), 9:30 am, TCM – Background to Danger (1943). TCM continues the birthday salute to Sydney Greenstreet with this espionage thriller based on a novel by Eric Ambler.

Dec. 27 (Fri), 6:15 pm, TCM – Casablanca (1942). TCM ends the birthday salute to Sydney Greenstreet with this wartime drama, in which Peter and Sydney have no scenes together.

Dec. 31 (Tues), 4 pm, MeTV – Wagon Train, "The Alexander Portlass Story" (NBC, Mar. 16, 1960). Bring the year 2019 to an end with Peter Lorre and a viewing of one of his later television appearances.

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January, 2020

A new year on the calendar – and a new year of Peter Lorre movies!

Jan. 2 (Thurs), 8:30 am, Movies!Network – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940). Peter plays the title character in a drama considered the first "film noir".

Jan. 2 (Thurs), 1 am, TCM – My Favorite Brunette (1947). The prime-time theme is "Starring Bob Hope", and on the schedule is the only movie Peter Lorre made with the famous comedian.

Jan. 6 (Mon), 11 pm, TCM – The Maltese Falcon (1941). The prime-time theme is "Starring Mary Astor", including the hard-boiled mystery film she made with Peter Lorre.

Jan. 9 (Thurs), 8 pm, Movies!Network – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940).

Jan. 11 (Sat), 6 am, Movies!Network – Beat the Devil (1954).

Jan. 12 (Sun), 2:10 am, Movies!Network – Quicksand (1950).

Jan. 16 (Thurs), 2:30 pm, Movies!Network – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940).

Jan. 16 (Thurs), 4 pm, Movies!Network – Quicksand (1950).

Jan. 22 (Wed), 4 pm, TCM – Casablanca (1942). TCM salutes the birthday of Conrad Veidt, who appeared in two movies with Peter Lorre.

Jan. 22 (Wed), 6 pm, TCM – All Through the Night (1942). The Vedit birthday fest concludes with this Bogart comedy-gangster film in which Veidt and Lorre play Nazi saboteurs working in New York City.

Jan. 23 (Thurs), 9:35 am, Movies!Network – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940).

Jan. 26 (Sun), 11:15 pm, Movies!Network – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940).

Jan. 30 (Thurs), 2:50 pm, Movies!Network – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940).

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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 Amazon U.S., Amazon Canada, and Amazon U.K, as well as other booksellers.

Happy viewing!