Poe Birthday Salute Includes Lorre

Every week, Radio Classics channel host Greg Bell celebrates birthdays with special programming, and during the week of January 15, 2024, the spotlight shines on writer Edgar Allan Poe in two separate blocks of radio programs adapted from his work, including “The Black Cat” episode of Peter Lorre’s summer series Mystery in the Air.

The “Poe Man’s Radio Special” with Lorre will air these programs ~

• Inner Sanctum, “The Tell-Tale Heart” – August 3, 1941
• Mystery in the Air, “The Black Cat” – September 18, 1947
• The Weird Circle, “Murders in the Rue Morgue” – January 2, 1944
• Suspense, “The Pit and the Pendulum” – January 12, 1943

This Poe birthday block will air these dates and times ~

Monday, January 15 ~
3 am Pacific, 6 am Eastern
”The Black Cat” – 3:30 am Pacific, 6:30 am Eastern

Friday, January 19 ~
5 pm Pacific, 8 pm Eastern
”The Black Cat” – 5:30 pm Pacific, 8:30 pm Eastern

Saturday, January 20 ~
9 pm Pacific
”The Black Cat” – 9:30 pm Pacific

Sunday, January 21 ~
12 midnight Eastern
”The Black Cat” – 12:30 am Eastern

The full schedule of the week’s programming is available on Greg Bell’s website.

Satellite radio provider SiriusXM airs Radio Classics 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? SiriusXM offers special trial deals through their website.

UCLA Hitchcock Program Includes Lorre

On Saturday, January 20, 2024, the Billy Wilder Theatre in Los Angeles, California, will present a program on director Alfred Hitchcock as part of the ongoing series “Archive Television Treasures”. “’Good Evening’: Alfred Hitchcock on Television” will explore his work as host and director of small screen dramas, including Peter Lorre in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode, “Man From the South”.

The event includes ~

• Suspicion, “Four O’Clock” – September 30, 1957
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents, “Man From the South” – January 3, 1960
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, “I Saw the Whole Thing” – October 11, 1962

The presentation begins at 7:30 pm.

Admission is free for everyone. Tickets are available at the theater box office, which opens one hour before the event.

The Billy Wilder Theater is located at the Courtyard Level of the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, at the intersection of Wilshire and Westwood boulevards in the Westwood Village area of Los Angeles, California.

For more information, please call the theater at 310-206-8013.

Parking is available in the lot under the Hammer Museum. Enter the lot from Westwood Boulevard, just north of Wilshire Boulevard. Parking for the disabled is provided on levels P1 and P3. On Saturdays and Sundays, the fee is a flat rate of $3.

The venue is also well-served by public transportation.

More information about parking and public transportation, as well as directions, may be found on the venue’s website.

In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen D. Youngkin discusses Peter Lorre’s long association with Alfred Hitchcock, beginning with Peter’s first English-speaking role in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934).

Lorre went on to co-star in a second Hitchcock film Secret Agent (1936), and appeared in two episodes of the Hitchcock TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents – “The Diplomatic Corpse” (December 8, 1957) and “Man From the South” (January 3, 1960).

The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre may be purchased in many brick-and-mortar shops, as well as these online merchants ~

• Amazon U.S.
• Amazon Canada
• Amazon U.K

SiriusXM Radio Airs Lorre Classic

During the week of January 8, 2024, Radio Classics host Greg Bell celebrates the 85th anniversary of the Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater with a 2-hour block of episodes, including Peter Lorre in “The Maltese Falcon” over SiriusXM Radio.

The block includes “Between Americans” (Dec. 7, 1941); “The Maltese Falcon” (Sept. 20, 1943); “The Gay Divorcee” (March 6, 1944); and “Vivacious Lady” (Dec. 3, 1945).

“The Maltese Falcon” will air these dates and times ~

Monday, January 8 ~
5:30 pm Pacific
8:30 pm Eastern

Wednesday, January 10 ~
7:30 am Pacific
10:30 am Eastern

Saturday, January 13 ~
1:30 am Pacific
4:30 am Eastern

The full schedule for the week of January 8 to January 14, 2024, is available on Greg Bell’s website.

Originally airing over CBS on September 20, 1943, the episode reunited the cast of the classic 1941 movie The Maltese Falcon in their original roles – Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade, Mary Astor as his client Brigid O’Shaughnessy, Sydney Greenstreet as “the Fat Man” Kasper Gutman, and Peter Lorre as Joel Cairo.

Satellite radio provider SiriusXM airs Radio Classics 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? SiriusXM offers special trial deals through their website.

New Year with Lorre Movies on TV

A new year begins with a handful of Lorre films on the Turner Classic Movies channel, as well as other channels, including Talking Pictures TV.

American times shown are Eastern Standard.

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January, 2024

Just a few Lorre movies on the Turner Classic Movies channel this month.

Jan 8 (Mon), 1:30 pm, Turner Classic Movies – The Constant Nymph (1943). The Daytime Theme is "Starving Artists", including this romantic role for Peter Lorre in the first of two movies he made with Charles Boyer.

Jan 10 (Wed), 1:20 am, Talking Pictures TV – Island of Doomed Men (1940). Join Caroline Munroe in the Cellar Club for this thriller with Peter Lorre as the sadistic owner of an island of convicts forced to work in his diamond mine.

Jan 11 (Thurs), 11:50 am, Movies! Network – The Chase (1946).

Jan 11 (Thurs), 4:30 am, TCM – Casablanca (1942). The primetime theme is "The Power of Film", including the WWII classic starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, and Peter Lorre.

Jan 18 (Thurs), 5 pm, Great American Family channel – Wagon Train, "The Alexander Portlass Story" (March 16, 1960).

Jan 25 (Thurs), 5:05 pm, Talking Pictures TV – The Chase (1946).

Jan 28 (Sun), 3:45 pm, Turner Classic Movies – Silk Stockings (1957). Peter Lorre sings and dances in this Fred Astaire musical from MGM.

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Sneak Peek at February, 2024

From February 9 to February 29, and March 1 to March 10, TCM celebrates 31 Days of Oscar, including the Lorre movies that have won or received nominations for Academy Awards.

Feb 1 (Thurs), 12 noon, TCM – They Met in Bombay (1941). TCM celebrates the birthday of Clark Gable, including the second of two movies he made with Peter Lorre at MGM.

Sneak Peek at March, 2024

Mar 7 (Thurs), 8 pm, TCM – Casablanca (1942). TCM celebrates Day 28 of their annual "31 Days of Oscar" with this World War II classic, which won Best Picture of 1943.

Mar 9 (Sat), 11 am, TCM – The Maltese Falcon (1941). TCM celebrates Day 30 of their annual "31 Days of Oscar" with this classic who-dunnit, which was nominated for Best Picture in 1942.

Mar 10 (Sun), 8 pm, TCM – Around the World in 80 Days (1956). TCM celebrates the final day of their annual "31 Days of Oscar" with this all-star extravaganza, which won Best Picture of 1957.

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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!