Peter Lorre at the British Film Institute

Here's a piece to coincide with a season of Lorre's films at the BFI. There was a time when these sort of films were a staple of late night terrestrial television. Now you'd be hard-pressed to find anything other than some dreadful generic action film or an unfunny romcom made after 1995...

http://fridaynightboys300.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/peter-lorre-at-bfi.html

 

You have to love Peter Lorre. He is an icon. I based much of my own personality on him ... or so I am told.

 

Stranger on the Third Floor is, well, one of the strangest films I've seen.

 

He was.
One of my all time favorites.

 

I've always been a huge Lorre fan. I'll have to watch "The Boogie Man Will Get You" tonight.

 

Has the Beast with five fingers ever been released on dvd ?

 

M is one of my top ten, all time favorite films. The use of sound is incredible, as is Lorre's performance.

 

Waiting for forum member Joel Cairo to post here.

 

Warner Archive release, DVD-r. I have it, it looks pretty good.

 

That's a shame its one of my favorite Lorre films.
I have a wonderful set called Legends of horror that has a Lorre and is a must own
for anyone into the old stuff like me.
The movies in the set are Mark of the Vampire, The Mask of FU Manchu, Doctor X, The return of Doctor X,
Mad Love and The Devil Doll.

 

Here's another piece on Lorre:
http://fridaynightboys300.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/peter-lorre-between-silly-and-sinister.html

Makes me want to see those Mr Moto films.

 

I'm a huge Moto fan, I have the whole collection, love em.

 

Mad Love is fantastic!

 

There's an interesting, underrated Lorre performance in the Hitchcock movie Secret Agent. He has a particularly splendid death scene.

 

Great flick.