Peter Lorre
1) M
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
Deutsch
Description
Suspense based on the exploits of the Dusseldorf child-murderer. Lorre stars as a psychopathic murderer who is hunted by both the police and the criminal underworld.
5) The Raven
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
Scream legends Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff play rival magicians whose paths cross when Dr. Craven (Price) hears Dr. Bedlo (Lorre) tap-tap-tapping on his windowpane. You see, Bedlo has been turned into a raven by Dr. Scarabus (Karloff) and when transformed back into his old self he vows revenge. There may be little that’s recognizable from Edgar Allan Poe’s original poem in these sorcerers’ shenanigans, but the comical rivalry...
6) Casablanca
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1954
Language
English
Description
A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
9) Casablanca
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010, c2009]
Language
English
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Author
Language
English
Description
Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) is a baby photographer who fantasizes being a private eye. A baroness (Dorothy Lamour) actually mistakes him for one and asks for help locating her missing husband. This is followed by sinister doings in a gloomy mansion & sanatorium, with Peter Lorre & Lon Chaney Jr. Hope's character ends up framed for murder with every plot twist & parody of thriller cliches imaginable.
12) Secret Agent
Author
Language
English
Description
After three British Agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
Author
Series
Route 66 volume 6
Language
English
Description
Old-time horror-movie icons Lon Chaney, Jr., Boris Karloff, and Peter Lorre reunite at a Chicago hotel to plan a horror TV show for a new generation.
15) Beat the Devil
Author
Language
English
Description
Writer/Director John Huston's Beat the Devil stars Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther, the front man for a group of swindlers stranded in an Italian port town, scheming to take ownership of uranium-rich land in Africa. Also stranded is a naive British couple, Mr. and Mrs. Chelm (Edward Underdown and Jennifer Jones). Flirtations and a web of lies ensue among the group, testing romantic loyalty and allegiances among them. The last of six collaborations...