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October, 2025
October brings the annual "spooky season" of movies,including many spooky and not-so-spooky Lorre films on television.
Oct 2 (Thurs), 9:30 am, Movies! Network – The Mask of Dimitrios (1944). The Movies! Network kicks off a Lorre triple feature with a mystery film in which Peter plays a writer interested in the life of an international criminal (Zachary Scott).
Oct 2 (Thurs), 11:35 am, Movies! Network – Three Strangers (1946). The Lorre triple feature continues with this Warner Bros classic about three strangers (Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald) who make a wish on a sweepstakes ticket before a statuette of Kwan Yin, goddess of fortune and destiny.
Oct 2 (Thurs), 1:35 pm, Movies! Network – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940). The Lorre triple feature ends with this "B" picture considered the first film noir.
Oct 7 (Tues), 1:40 pm, Movies! Network – The Beast With Five Fingers (1946).
Oct 9 (Thurs), 6:10 am, Movies! Network – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940). The Movies! Network kicks off a Lorre triple feature with this film noir about a mysterious Stranger who commits murder.
Oct 9 (Thurs), 8 pm, Movies! Network – Three Strangers (1946). The Lorre triple feature continues with this Warner Bros classic about three strangers (Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald) who make a wish on a sweepstakes ticket before a statuette of Kwan Yin, goddess of fortune and destiny.
Oct 9 (Thurs), 12 midnight, Movies! Network – The Mask of Dimitrios (1944). The Lorre triple feature concludes with this Warner Bros. mystery film in which Peter plays a writer interested in the life of an international criminal (Zachary Scott).
Oct 10 (Fri), 2:45 pm, Legend, British television channel – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1960).
Oct 15 (Wed), 7:20 am, Movies! Network – The Beast With Five Fingers (1946).
Oct 15 (Wed), 7:45 am, TCM – The Cross of Lorraine (1943). The daytime theme is "Stories of WW II" with a day of movies set in World War II, including a war film Peter Lorre made at MGM, before he became a Warner Bros. contract player.
Oct 16 (Thurs), 6 am, Movies! Network – The Mask of Dimitrios (1944). The Movies! Network kicks off a Lorre double feature with a mystery film in which Peter plays a writer interested in the life of an international criminal (Zachary Scott).
Oct 16 (Thurs), 12:10 pm, Movies! Network – Three Strangers (1946). The Lorre double feature concludes with this Warner Bros classic about three strangers (Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald) who make a wish on a sweepstakes ticket before a statuette of Kwan Yin, goddess of fortune and destiny.
Oct 21 (Tues), 2 am, TCM – You'll Find Out (1940). The primetime theme is "Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi" with an evening of movies starring the horror duo. In the final film of the evening, Karloff and Lugosi are joined by Peter Lorre in a musical "horroromp" starring Kay Kyser, radio bandleader and quiz master. Kay and his band are hired to play at a mysterious mansion for a debutante's 21st birthday, and a trio of menaces (Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, and Bela Lugosi) who plot to kill the debutante before she turns 21.
Oct 24 (Fri), 5:30 am, TCM – Mad Love (1935). Every Friday in October, TCM host Ben Mankiewitz is joined by actor and comedian Mario Cantone for an evening of horror movies. Tonight's theme is "Body Horror", with a series of horror films involving various human body parts, including Peter Lorre's first American movie as a brilliant surgeon who, obsessed with the actress Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake), uses his medical skill to replace her husband's smashed hands with the hands of an executed knife thrower. NOTE: In Canada, another Lorre film, Stranger on the Third Floor (1940), will be shown instead of Mad Love.
Oct 28 (Tues), 3:40 am, Talking Pictures TV – Quicksand (1950).
Sneak Peek at November, 2025
November brings Thanksgiving, and Peter's fans can give thanks for the many Lorre films on television this month.
Nov 6 (Thurs), TCM – The Big Circus (1959).
Nov 6 (Thurs), TCM – The Story of Mankind (1957).
Nov 7 (Fri), TCM – The Maltese Falcon (1941).
Nov 10 (Mon), TCM – Passage to Marseille (1944).
Nov 10 (Mon), TCM – Casablanca (1942).
Nov 12 (Wed), TCM – Background to Danger (1943).
Nov 12 (Wed), TCM – Passage to Marseille (1944).
Nov 17 (Mon), TCM – M (1931).
Nov 20 (Thurs), TCM – All Through the Night (1942).
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 ~ Happy viewing!
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