Biography: Peter Lorre |

With the possible exception of Edward G. Robinson, no actor has so often been the target of impressionists as the inimitable, Hungarian-born Peter Lorre. Leaving his family home at the age of 17, Lorre sought out work as an actor, toiling as a bank... more
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Tags: Parody/Spoof Horror Comedy Comedy Horror 
Length: 105min
On the verge of bankruptcy, undertaker Vincent Price hits upon a novel method of drumming up business. Together with his cringing assistant Peter Lorre, Price sneaks into the homes of wealthy old men under cover of night and smothers the sleeping...

Cast: Boris Karloff Vincent Price   
Tags: Gothic Film Horror Comedy Costume Horror Horror Comedy 
Length: 86min
Although Roger Corman narrowly managed to avoid self-mockery in his pulpy, flamboyant adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe tales, it appears that the director chose this opportunity to let loose with outright parody; the result is a wonderfully entertaining...

Cast: Basil Rathbone   
Tags: Costume Horror Horror Thriller Gothic Film 
Length: 90min
Roger Corman's Tales of Terror stars Vincent Price in a trio of short stories, liberally adapted by Richard Matheson from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. The film gets off to a rousing start with "Morella," in which Price's bitterness over the long-ago...

Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
Tags: Historical Film Comedy Adventure Action Adventure Comedy 
Length: 101min
With Five Weeks in a Balloon, 20th Century-Fox hoped to cash on the success of the studio's earlier Jules Verne adaptation Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959). The plot is set in motion when 19th-century explorer Fergusson (Sir Cedric Hardwicke)...

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Cast: Bernard Herrmann   
Tags: Science Fiction Sci-Fi Disaster Film Sea Adventure Adventure Drama 
Length: 106min
Walter Pidgeon is the nominal star of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, portraying Admiral Harriman Nelson, the designer of the submarine Seaview, a glass-nosed research submarine. The sub embarks on her shakedown cruise under the polar ice cap as the...

Tags: Adventure Mystery Crime 
Length: 125min
Produced by Mike Todd Jr., Scent of Mystery was a misguided attempt to introduce a new gimmick to motion pictures. The plot involved the apparent murder of a mystery woman (Beverly Bentley, at one time the wife of writer Norman Mailer) and the...

Length: 108min
Victor Mature, in one of his last leading man performances, plays Hank Whirling, the owner of a financially shaky circus who is trying to get back on his feet, despite cutthroat competition from a rival organization. He also has a younger sister...

Cast: Fred Astaire   
Tags: Showbiz Comedy Musical Musical Romance 
Length: 117min
~Silk Stockings, a musical version of the 1939 Greta Garbo film Ninotchka, was adapted for the stage by George S. Kaufman, Leueen McGrath (the then-Mrs. Kaufman) and Abe Burrows, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The Broadway production, starring...

Cast: Jerry Lewis   
Tags: Military Comedy Comedy 
Length: 98min
In his second solo starring film after breaking with Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis plays cartoonist George Baker's classic GI misfit The Sad Sack. Lewis' constitutional inability to do anything right brings him under the scrutiny of gorgeous Army...

The Buster Keaton Story (1957)
Cast: Peter Lorre   
Tags: Comedy Drama Biopic 
Length: 91min
The Buster Keaton Story is the sublimely inaccurate life story of immortal film comedian Buster Keaton, played by Donald O'Connor. The film begins with young Buster appearing in his parents' circus acrobatic act (the real Keatons never appeared in a...

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