Peter Lorre described himself as merely a ‘face maker’. His own negative attitude also characterizes traditional perspectives which position Lorre as a tragic figure within film history: the promising European artist reduced to a Hollywood gimmick, unable to escape the murderous image of his role in Fritz Lang’s M. This book shows that the life of Peter Lorre cannot be reduced to a series of simplistic oppositions. It reveals that, despite the limitations of his macabre star image...

Crime, mystery, and just a touch of the supernatural -- they're all on display in Radio's Outstanding Theatre Of Thrills! Join your host, The Man in Black, for twenty gripping installments of Suspense (including the first ever broadcast of "Sorry, Wrong Number").Legends like Cary Grant, Agnes Moorehead, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Orson Welles, and Gene Kelly star in stories by thriller greats like Agatha Christie, Lucille Fletcher, John Dickson Carr, and Cornell Woolrich. Enjoy these tale...

Towards the end of his unique career, movie star Peter Lorre found himself at the centre of an unusual legal case. Incorporating verbatim extracts from the court transcripts, Michael Butt's play wonders what was going through Lorre's troubled mind as he fought to protect his name and identity. Features a cast including Stephen Greif as Peter Lorre, Peter Marinker as Lester Salkow, Kerry Shale as Robert Shutan and John Chancer as Curtis Gemmil. Also starring Helen Longworth, Kenneth Collard...

In this darkly comic novel set in suburban Detroit during the Ford Pinto/Ted Nugent era, a Catholic high school girl gets lessons in love from a dead Viennese star of film noir and her precociously sexy best friend.

Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame first as a featured player and later as a character actor, trademarking his screen performances with a delicately strung balance between good and evil. His portrayal of the child murderer in Fritz Lang's masterpiece M (1931) catapulted him to international fame. Lang said of Lorre: "He gave one of the best performances in film history and certainly the best in his life." Today, the Hungarian-born actor is also recogni...

The Hollywood Playhouse Box Set is a unique compilation of 14 Oscar winning films specially adapted from the original screenplays & performed for the radio by many of the original film stars in front of a live studio audience. Re-mastered and re-edited from the original radio broadcastCASABLANCA with Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid BergmanTHE MALTESE FALCON with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre & Sydney Greenstreet

From the very beginning of its two-decade run on radio, Suspense was tops in thriller entertainment! Its first year on the air brought together stories from such outstanding masters of the genre as John Dickson Carr, Dashiell Hammett, and Edgar Allan Poe!Tune in to twenty tense classics from Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills - starring Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Susan Hayward, Richard Dix, Lou Merrill, Agnes Moorehead, Frank Readick, Alice Frost, and more.Episodes Include: The Cave of A...

The Humphrey Bogart Collection is a unique compilation of 3 Oscar winning films adapted from the original screenplays & performed for the radio by Humphrey Bogart and many of the original film stars in front of a live studio audience. Re-mastered and re-edited from the original radio broadcastTHE AFRICAN QUEEN with Humphrey Bogart & Greer GarsonSet in 1915, Rose Sayer, the prim missionary joins Charlie Allnut, the gin drinking river trader as they ...

This collection contains twelve of the greatest mystery shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio! You'll hear Richard Widmark starring in Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Orson Welles in The Black Museum, Peter Lorre in Mystery in the Air, William Conrad in The Whistler, Ernest Chappell in Quiet, Please, Everett Clarke in Lights Out, Harry Bartell in Escape, and Fredric March in a tale well calculated to keep you in Susp...

Encounter the death who walks, rats, descents in to madness, ghosts, mad scientists, crimes against nature and much more in this classic collection presenting twenty-two tales of the supernatural from authors such as Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens and Ambrose Bierce. Features performances from Peter Lorre, Hal Holbrooke, Boris Karloff and the work of many leading radio directors, writers and actors of the day. Also included are episodes from Strange, a rarely heard series narra...

"Hello, Creeps!"Desperate times call for desperate measures, and sometimes the only question left is whether or not you think you can get away with it.Hosts Peter Lorre, Bernard Lenrow, and Roc Rogers are your experts on the evils of man's darker nature. They bring you tales of close shaves, sponsored by Mollé Brushless Shaving Cream.Richard Widmark, Frank Lovejoy, Bud Collyer, Martin Gabel, Mandel Kramer, Elspeth Eric, and more star in scripts by some of the greatest of all mystery writer...

MR PUNCH PRESENTS Casablanca, perhaps the best loved and most watched of all Hollywood movies. Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), the cynical owner of Rick’s Café Americain helps his former lover Ilse Lund (Ingrid Bergman) and her underground leader husband escape from the Nazis in this powerful love story, featuring the classic song As Time Goes By. The Maltese Falcon stars Humphrey Bogart as the private detective Sam Spade. In this compelli...