Posts Tagged: Tuesdays with Lorre

[Note the highly misleading poster art. Hope never wears anything like he is pictured here, and Dorothy Lamour certainly never appears in a bathing suit. And I seriously have no friggin’ idea… Read Article →

Following his cameo appearance in Irwin Allen’s craptastic The Story of Mankind (1957)—one of dozens of that movie’s ‘star’ turns—Peter Lorre became part of Allen’s stock company. We already examined Lorre’s negligible… Read Article →

Boy, on paper this should be fabulous. Just the fact that it co-stars Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre in their respective primes, in a film that features the two together onscreen for… Read Article →

Universal Spoiler Alert: Didn’t think too much of this film, so warning, spoilers throughout. Having already provided me with a DVD-R of the Peter Lorre vehicle Mask of Dimitrios, long-time FoJ Roger… Read Article →

Well, I’ve been spoiled, so I was due for a comeuppance sooner or later. Lately I’ve been feasting on movies made during Peter Lorre’s best period, when he was a contract player… Read Article →

John Huston’s version of The Maltese Falcon is one the most perfectly cast films in movie history. To some extent or other, it permanently defined the image and career of each of… Read Article →

Confidential Agent arrived rather late in the game for a war propaganda films (which is not meant at all negatively, by the way). It hit theaters in November of 1945, roughly six… Read Article →

I’m hyper-sensitive to spoilers. In other words, things that other people—even professional critics—don’t think of as spoilers, I do. An obvious example is when people (or reviewers) mention a film has a… Read Article →

This was easily the most satisfying film I’ve watched so far in my Unseen Lorre Fest. Passage to Marseille was probably a better film (and certainly portions of it were markedly superior)…. Read Article →