Lorre Drama Over SiriusXM

On the satellite radio provider SiriusXM, horror and drama continue during the week of October 31, 2022 – including Peter Lorre’s Inner Sanctum Mysteries episode, “Death is a Joker” on the Radio Classics channel.

The two-hour block of spooky old-time radio tales include ~

• Inner Sanctum Mysteries, “Death is a Joker” (June 10, 1944)
• Inner Sanctum Mysteries, “Dead Man’s Vengeance” (Oct. 7, 1944)
• The Witch’s Tale, “Graveyard Mansion” (Mar. 6, 1933)
• The Witch’s Tale, “Devil’s Number” (Dec. 12, 1935)

“Death is a Joker” will air the following dates and times ~

Monday, Oct. 31, 2022 –
9 pm Pacific

Tuesday, Nov. 1 –
12 midnight Eastern

Thursday, Nov. 3 –
7 am Pacific
10 am Eastern

Sunday, Nov. 6 –
1 pm Pacific
4 pm Eastern

The full schedule for the week of Monday, October 31, through Sunday, November 6, 2022, is available on the website of Radio Classics host Greg Bell.

The SiriusXM airs the Radio Classics channel over channel 148. Subscribers may also listen to the programs over the internet or through the SiriusXM app on a Smart Phone or Smart Speaker. Not a subscriber? A 30-day trial may be purchased for $1 through the SiriusXM radio website.

During World War II, the Armed Forces Radio Services (AFRS) supplied radio programs to American military men and women serving overseas. Regular series with commercials edited out, as well as commercial-free original programs, were sent out on thick vinyl records to military bases around the world. Mystery Playhouse was comprised of episodes of various suspense and thriller mystery series, such as Mr. and Mrs. North and Sherlock Holmes, as well as anthology series, such as Inner Sanctum Mysteries, The Whistler, and Mollė Mystery Theatre.

As one of several hosts of Mystery Playhouse, Peter Lorre introduced episodes with the greeting, “Hello, Kreeps!” and his usual dry sense of humor. A visit to the Green Room and a preview of the next Mystery Playhouse entry usually closed the program.

Originally broadcast on Inner Sanctum Mysteries, “Death is a Joker” now survives only as an episode of the AFRS program Mystery Playhouse – and hosted by Peter Lorre, who has the unique opportunity to introduce himself in his own program!

Happy listening!

Film Society Screens Lorre Classic in Wisconsin

On Wednesday, October 19, 2022, the Green Bay Film Society will present Peter Lorre’s first sound movie, M (1931), as part of the Weidner Downtown Series.

The film will be shown at the historic Tarlton Theatre, located in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

The program begins at 7 pm. The doors open at 6 pm.

Admission is free for everyone.

The Tarlton Theatre is located at 405-409 West Walnut Street in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Parking is available in the lot near the venue.

More information about the screening is available on the Weidner Center website.

SiriusXM Schedules Lorre Program

Radio Classics channel host Greg Bell will include an episode of Peter Lorre’s 1947 summer mystery series Mystery in the Air during the Bela Lugosi birthday block throughout the week of October 17, 2022.

“The Mask of Medusa” (September 4, 1947) will air on these dates and times ~

• Tuesday, October 18 – 3:30 am Pacific, 6:30 am Eastern
• Thursday, October 20 – 7:30 pm Pacific, 10:30 pm Eastern
• Saturday, October 22 – 11:30 am Pacific, 2:30 pm Eastern

The full schedule for the week of Monday, October 17, through Sunday, October 23, 2022, is available on Greg Bell’s website.

The satellite radio provider SiriusXM airs the Radio Classics channel over channel 148. Subscribers may also listen to the programs over the internet or through the SiriusXM app on a Smart Phone or Smart Speaker. Not a subscriber? A 30-day trial may be purchased for $1 through the SiriusXM radio website.

New Jersey Bookshop Screens Poe Films

Get in the spirit of Halloween with Peter Lorre and Edgar Allan Poe when second-hand bookshop Act 2 Books screens a Poe double-feature in their Outdoor Theater on Saturday, October 15, 2022, in Flemington, New Jersey.

The Edgar Allan Poe Fright Night begins at 7 pm with Tales of Terror (1962), starring Vincent Price in three Poe stories – “Morella”, “The Black Cat” (co-starring Peter Lorre), and “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” (co-starring Basil Rathbone).

The Pit and the Pendulum, also starring Vincent Price, immediately follows Tales of Terror.

Admission is free for everyone. Bring chairs and blankets as the October evening will be chilly! Act 2 Books will supply complimentary popcorn.

Act 2 Books is located at 24 Central Avenue in Flemington, New Jersey.

Parking is available on the street in front of the bookshop.

For more information, please check the bookshop’s Facebook page or call the bookshop at 908-968-3711. The event’s rain date is Saturday, October 22, 2022.

Bogart Fest Includes Lorre

For the fifth year, the community theater Theatre in the Heights, located in Citrus Heights, California, presents a three-day Humphrey Bogart Film Festival over the weekend of October 7-9, 2022.

Casablanca (1942) will be shown on Saturday, October 8, at 8 pm.

The full schedule of Bogart movies is available on the venue’s website.

The Bogart film festival is free for everyone, and reservations are not required. Seating is first-come, first-served.

Popcorn and drinks will be provided. And for those interested in a Bogart-themed cocktail, the Theatre in the Heights will open up the Bogart gin purchased from previous Bogart fests, held annually in Key Largo, Florida, from 2013 to 2017.

Theatre in the Heights is located in Suite G of the strip mall at 8215 Auburn Boulevard in Auburn, California. Parking is available in the lot adjoining the mall.

For more information, please contact the theater at (916) 509-3445.

Lorre on TV in October 2022

Plenty of Halloween treats for Lorre fans are on movie schedules in October, including the Turner Classic Movies channel and 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.


October, 2022

October means Halloween and horror – including some of the horror and suspense movies in Peter Lorre's filmography.

Oct. 2 (Sun), 12 noon, Movies!Network – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). A Halloween tale about a dramatic critic (Cary Grant) who, just before he leaves on his honeymoon with the minister's daughter (Priscilla Lane), discovers his aunts have their own little secret – they poison lonely old gentlemen coming to their home in Brooklyn.

Oct. 4 (Tues), 8:35 am, Movies!Network – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

Oct. 4 (Tues), 8 pm, Turner Classic Movies channel – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). The primetime theme is "Pick Your Poison", and the evening of movies involving poisons of various kinds kicks off with this classic about the elderly aunts and their poisoned elderberry wine.

Oct. 4 (Tues), 8 pm, Canadian TCM – Confidential Agent (1945). Lorre fans in Canada can catch this film, instead of Arsenic and Old Lace.

Oct. 5 (Wed), 12:20 am, Talking Pictures Television – The Comedy of Terrors (1964).

Oct. 6 (Thurs), 6 am, Movies!Network – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940). A Lorre double-feature begins with this film considered the first film noir.

Oct. 6 (Thurs), 9:05 am, Movies!Network – The Face Behind the Mask (1941).

Oct. 7 (Fri), 10 pm, Movies!Network – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

Oct. 9 (Sun), 8 pm, Movies!Network – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940). A Lorre double-feature begins with this film considered the first film noir.

Oct. 9 (Sun), 9:25 pm, Movies!Network – The Face Behind the Mask (1941).

Oct. 10 (Mon), 1:25 am, Movies!Network – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Oct. 10 (Mon), 1:10 pm, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Oct. 12 (Wed), 1 am, Movies!Network – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

Oct. 13 (Thurs), 10 am, TCM – Silk Stockings (1957). The daytime theme is "Musical France", including this Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse musical with a singing and dancing Peter Lorre.

Oct. 13 (Thurs), 4:25 pm, Movies!Network – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940).

Oct. 16 (Sun), 8 am, TCM – The Conspirators (1944).

Oct. 16 (Sun), 1:10 pm, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).

Oct. 17 (Mon), 4:45 am, TCM – Mad Love (1935). Every Monday in October, TCM turns the spotlight on "Creepy Cinema", and tonight's theme is "People on the Verge", including a Lorre double-feature. Note – The Canadian TCM will show Stranger on the Third Floor (1940).

Oct. 17 (Mon), 6 am, TCM – The Beast with Five Fingers (1947). "People on the Verge" concludes with this film in which a severed hand that only Hilary Cummins (Peter Lorre) can see goes on a rampage in an old Italian villa.

Oct. 19 (Wed), 7:30 am, Antenna TV – The Jack Benny Program, "The Peter Lorre / Joanie Summers Show" (Jan. 22, 1963).

Oct. 20 (Thurs), 1:45 pm, Movies!Network – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940).

Oct. 20 (Thurs), 3:10 pm, Movies!Network – The Face Behind the Mask (1941).

Oct. 22 (Sat), 12 noon, TCM – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940).

Oct. 23 (Sun), 4 pm, Movies!Network – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

Oct. 24 (Mon), 2:15 pm, TCM – All Through the Night (1942). The daytime theme is "Sabotage", including this World War II film in which Peter and a gang of Nazis in New York City plot to blow up an American battleship.

Oct. 27 (Thurs), 11:55 pm, Movies!Network – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940).

Oct. 29 (Sat), 1:15 pm, Movies!Network – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

Oct. 29 (Sat), 8 pm, KQED PBS, San Francisco – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

Oct. 31 (Mon), 1:10 pm, Fox Movie channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).


Sneak Peek at November, 2022

November brings a number of Lorre movies on both American and United Kingdom television channelss, including these ~

Nov. 5 (Sat), 6 am, Talking Pictures TV channel – Double Confession (1950).

Nov. 9 (Wed), 10 am, TCM – The Conspirators (1944) TCM celebrates the birthday of Hedy Lamarr, including the only movie she made with Peter Lorre – a World War II spy drama with Lorre and Lamarr as spies working in neutral Lisbon.

Nov. 10 (Thurs), 2:45 pm, TCM – They Met in Bombay (1940). The daytime theme is "Jewel Thieves", including this caper with Clark Gable and Rosalind Russell as con artists after a fabulous pendant – and Peter Lorre as the opportunistic Chinese skipper of a tramp steamer they take refuge on.

Nov. 19 (Sat), 2 pm, TCM – Mad Love (1935).

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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!