Peter Lorre

M (1931)

M (1931)
Rating: ★★★★
Jun 8, 2000Criminal Underworld Hunts Child Murderer
Fritz Lang was an extraordinary director of the silent era and this was his first sound film loosely based on a series of child murders. Peter Lorre gives an amazingly craven performance as the hunted killer.
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Strange Cargo (1940)

Strange Cargo (1940)
Rating: ★★★
Jan 3, 2001Jesus Christ Aids Devil's Island Escapees
One of the strangest films of the 1940s, featuring Clark Gable, Joan Crawford and others as a group of Devil's Island escapees who realise during the course of their journey that one of the company is Jesus Christ
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Invisible Agent (1942)

Invisible Agent (1942)
Rating: ★★★
Jul 27, 2017Invisible Spy
Universal's Invisible Man films are not as well remembered but were often superior to their Frankenstein and Dracula films, particularly in the effects department. In the fourth entry here, made just after Pearl Harbor, The Invisible Man becomes a spy fighting Nazi and Japanese villains
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Rating: ★★★★
Mar 18, 2003Victorian Submarine Inventor/Jules Verne Adaptation
Disney's adaptation of Jules Verne's novel is a lavishly produced period adventure. This became the definitive version of the book and inspired a string of imitators
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The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

The Comedy of Terrors (1963)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 1, 2001Murderous Morticians Comedy
Droll black comedy with Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone as morticians who decide to drum up business by murdering people. This assembles much of the team behind the Roger Corman Edgar Allan Poe films
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