Movies by Peter Lorre
As part of the cast:
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You'll Find Out / Zombies on Broadway (2009)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Kay Kyser …
Directed by: Gordon Douglas, David Butler
In the mystery You'll Find Out, a musician encounters dodgy characters when he performs at an eerie manor house, and in the comedy Zombies on Broadway, two hapless publicists try to…
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Humphrey Bogart: Beat the Devil / Jack Benny Show (2002)
Cast: Jennifer Jones, Peter Lorre, Humphrey Bogart …
Directed by: John Huston
Humphrey Bogart sends up his tough-guy image in a cult classic satire and one of television's most beloved comedies. Five con artists on a Mediterranean cruise try to outwit one another…
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Red Skelton: The Lost Episodes (2001)
Cast: Red Skelton, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre …
Guest stars Peter Lorre and Vincent Price make appearances in these classic sketches from "The Red Skelton Show," in which the comic portrays some of his most beloved characters: Clem…
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Beat the Devil / That Uncertain Feeling (2000)
Cast: Merle Oberon, Humphrey Bogart, Melvyn Douglas …
Directed by: John Huston, Ernst Lubitsch
A dab of film noir colors these two classic comedies. In Beat the Devil, four travelers (including Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones) board a ship with a quartet of gangsters in search of…
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The Patsy (1964)
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Ina Balin, Everett Sloane …
Directed by: Jerry Lewis
After a star dies unexpectedly, the dead man's managers decide to manufacture a new cash cow. Clumsy bellboy Stanley Belt is trained as a singer and, despite his spastic behavior,…
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The Comedy of Terrors (1963)
Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff …
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
A financial crisis forces undertaker Waldo Trumbull (Vincent Price) to start taking extreme measures. Rather than waiting for new clients to show up naturally, Waldo and his assistant (Peter…
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The Raven (1963)
Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff …
Directed by: Roger Corman
Roger Corman directs this hoot of a film featuring Dr. Erasmus Craven (Vincent Price), a washed-up sorcerer who turns a talking raven back into a man and learns that his presumed-dead wife is…
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Tales of Terror (1962)
Cast: Vincent Price, Maggie Pierce, Leona Gage …
Directed by: Roger Corman
It's a triple threat of terror from the master of the genre: Edgar Allan Poe. This collection of three films -- The Black Cat, Morella and The Case of M. Valdemar -- offers everything…
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Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
Cast: Red Buttons, Barbara Eden, Cedric Hardwicke …
Directed by: Irwin Allen
In this adaptation of Jules Verne's first novel, Professor Ferguson (Cedric Hardwicke) leads a plucky band of travelers in a hot-air balloon on a journey across Africa to claim an…
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Tales of Terror / Twice Told Tales (1962)
Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Maggie Pierce …
Directed by: Roger Corman, Sidney Salkow
A love triangle leads a jealous husband to bury a couple alive; a seriously ill man is hypnotized and experiences horrific results; a doctor's youth restoration experiments lead to the…
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden …
Directed by: Irwin Allen
Walter Pidgeon plays the designer and builder of a nuclear submarine called upon to fire its missiles on the Van Allen radiation belt to put out the fire raging there that threatens to…
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Humphrey Bogart: Beat the Devil / Humphrey Bogart on Film (1957)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida …
Directed by: John Huston
Skewering their earlier efforts such as Key Largo and The Maltese Falcon, director John Huston and Humphrey Bogart team up for a wacky spoof following a group of schemers with their eye on an…
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Silk Stockings (1957)
Cast: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige …
Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian
Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse swing and sway to a luscious Cole Porter score in this musical reworking of the 1939 film Ninotchka. Fred's a producer trying to mount a movie set in Paris,…
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Hell Ship Mutiny (1957)
Cast: Jon Hall, John Carradine, Peter Lorre …
Directed by: Lee Sholem
Upon finding a far-flung South Seas island run by thugs, Capt. Jim Knight (Jon Hall) rounds up the baddies and plans to take them to trial. But en route to the mainland, Knight's cache…
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The Sad Sack (1957)
Cast: Jerry Lewis, David Wayne, Phyllis Kirk …
Directed by: George Marshall
Jerry Lewis stars as inept soldier Meredith Bixby in this hilarious comedic romp. In spite of his incompetence, Bixby is sent to Morocco on a top-secret assignment after an Army psychiatrist…
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The Buster Keaton Story (1957)
Cast: Donald O'Connor, Ann Blyth, Rhonda Fleming …
Directed by: Sidney Sheldon
Song-and-dance man Donald O'Connor stars as silent-era comedian Buster Keaton in this imaginative biopic that largely reinvents the details of Keaton's real life and centers the…
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Around the World in 80 Days: Special Edition (1956)
Cast: David Niven, Cantinflas, Finlay Currie …
Directed by: Michael Anderson
This Oscar-nominated hit adaptation of Jules Verne's novel recounts the adventures of Englishman Phileas Fogg (David Niven), who takes on a seemingly impossible wager: traveling around…
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Cast: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas …
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Kirk Douglas stars as Ned Land and James Mason as Captain Nemo in this Walt Disney live-action adaptation of the classic Jules Verne underwater adventure. Sent to investigate a rash of…
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Beat the Devil (1954)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Bernard Lee …
Directed by: John Huston
John Huston directs the legendary Humphrey Bogart in this tongue-in-cheek parody of spy films from the 1940s -- with a script written by the equally legendary Truman Capote. When their…
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Casino Royale (1954)
Cast: Barry Nelson, Peter Lorre, Linda Christian …
Directed by: William H. Brown Jr., Gene Roth
Having gambled away a vast sum of his country's funds, a diabolical Soviet spy (Peter Lorre) tries to recoup his losses through a high-stakes game of baccarat, but secret agent James…
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Quicksand (1950)
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates …
Directed by: Irving Pichel
When skirt-chasing auto mechanic Dan Brady (Mickey Rooney) meets a brassy blonde temptress (Jeanne Cagney), he falls all over himself trying to please her. But Brady quickly gets in over his…
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Rope of Sand (1949)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains …
Directed by: William Dieterle
Big game hunter Mike Davis (Burt Lancaster) heads to the African desert in pursuit of the most elusive quarry of all -- a lode of diamonds whose location only Davis knows but vicious…
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Casbah (1948)
Cast: Yvonne De Carlo, Tony Martin, Peter Lorre …
Directed by: John Berry
Powerful criminal Pepe Le Moko (Tony Martin) evades capture by hiding out among fellow thieves in the labyrithine Casbah section of Algiers. But when he falls in love with French tourist Gaby…
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My Favorite Brunette (1947)
Cast: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre …
Directed by: Elliot Nugent
A case of mistaken identity lands Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) in prison and awaiting execution in this parody of a detective thriller. Baroness Montay (Dorothy Lamour) hires Jackson to search…
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Bob Hope: Road to Comedy (1947)
Cast: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre …
Directed by: Elliott Nugent, Hal Walker
It's a double dose of laughs from one of the greatest comedy teams the movies have ever produced -- Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. In Road to Bali, Bob and Bing pair up as adventurers who…
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Black Angel (1946)
Cast: Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre …
Directed by: Roy William Neill
A lopsided couple, Catherine (June Vincent) and Martin (Dan Duryea), turn into amateur sleuths when they launch an investigation to prove that Catherine's incarcerated husband (John…
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey …
Directed by: Frank Capra
Stellar performances highlight this delightfully witty adaptation of the hit Broadway play about two dotty spinsters (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair) with a peculiar avocation: helping lonely…
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Casablanca (1942)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid …
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
In this Oscar-winning classic, American expat Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) plays host to gamblers, thieves and refugees at his Moroccan nightclub during World War II ... but he never…
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The Invisible Agent / The Invisible Man's Revenge (1942)
Cast: Ilona Massey, Jon Hall, Peter Lorre …
Directed by: Edwin L. Marin, Ford Beebe
Talk about going undercover! In The Invisible Agent, a government spy (Jon Hall) has the perfect disguise when he uses his cloak of invisibility to fight the Nazis. Costars Ilona Massey and…
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All Through the Night (1942)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne …
Directed by: Vincent Sherman
Talk about your weird coincidences: When grinning gambler Gloves Donahue (Humphrey Bogart) pays a call on a bakery to find out what's holding up his cheesecake delivery, he stumbles on a…
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George …
Directed by: John Huston
Humphrey Bogart stars as private eye Sam Spade in this Oscar-nominated noir classic that finds the sultry Miss Wonderly (Mary Astor) seeking out protection from a man named Thursby.…
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Before I Hang / The Boogie Man Will Get You (1940)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes, Peter Lorre …
Directed by: Lew Landers, Nick Grinde
Horror maestro Boris Karloff stars in these two tales of terror. In Before I Hang, when a physician (Karloff) lands on death row for a mercy killing, he continues formulating his youth serum,…
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Strange Cargo (1940)
Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ian Hunter …
Directed by: Frank Borzage
Fugitive pilot Verne (Clark Gable) and his girlfriend, Julie (Joan Crawford), join up with another band of convicts as they escape from a penal colony, but the hardened criminals find…
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939)
Cast: John Carradine, Peter Lorre, Ricardo Cortez …
Directed by: Norman Foster
Sphinxian sleuth Kentaro Moto (Peter Lorre) finds himself in the midst of international intrigue when he investigates a plot to sabotage French vessels traveling through the Suez Canal.…
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)
Cast: Peter Lorre, Joseph Schildkraut, Lionel Atwill …
Directed by: Norman Foster
Mild-mannered sleuth Kentaro Moto (Peter Lorre) postpones his vacation to protect the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba, recently recovered by archaeologist Howard Stevens (John "Dusty"…
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Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938)
Cast: Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson, Robert Kent …
Directed by: Norman Foster
The fourth installment of the Mr. Moto series finds the well-mannered Japanese sleuth (Peter Lorre) in a remote area of Indochina, where he's able to rescue a pretty young pilot…
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Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938)
Cast: Peter Lorre, Henry Wilcoxon, Erik Rhodes …
Directed by: Norman Foster
Japanese detective Mr. Moto (Peter Lorre) dons an inmate's disguise to help Scotland Yard hunt down a gang of dangerous assassins in the fifth installment of this mystery series…
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Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1938)
Cast: Peter Lorre, Warren Hymer, Amanda Duff …
Directed by: Herbert I. Leeds
After diamond smugglers in Puerto Rico bump off an investigator, the U.S. government calls in deadpan sleuth Kentaro Moto (Peter Lorre) to break up the criminal ring. As always, his powers of…
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Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938)
Cast: Peter Lorre, Keye Luke, Dick Baldwin …
Directed by: James Tinling
Aided by two of his criminology students (Keye Luke and Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom), inscrutable gumshoe Kentaro Moto (Peter Lorre) investigates the murder of a prizefighter poisoned…
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Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937)
Cast: Peter Lorre, Sidney Blackmer, Sig Ruman …
Directed by: Norman Foster
Detective Moto (Peter Lorre) comes into possession of an ancient scroll worth a fortune in this second film based on J.P. Marquand's novels. The Japanese investigator evades ruthless…
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Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937)
Cast: Peter Lorre, Lee Phelps, Virginia Field …
Directed by: Norman Foster
First of eight in a series, this mystery based on J.P. Marquand's novels follows Japanese detective Moto (Peter Lorre) as he outwits international smugglers. Aboard a ship to Shanghai,…
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Secret Agent (1936)
Cast: John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll …
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
In this thriller from director Alfred Hitchcock, British soldier and novelist Edgar Brodie (John Gielgud) returns home during World War I to find that a government agency has faked a report…
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre …
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
The Lawrences are vacationing in Switzerland when a secret-agent friend is mortally wounded. Before dying, he utters some cryptic words revealing a planned assassination in London, and things…
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M (1931)
Cast: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut …
Directed by: Fritz Lang
German-American director Fritz Lang presents his first "talkie" -- and cinema's first serial killer -- in this 1931 classic whose central villain was later used in Nazi propaganda films…
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Spies / M (1929)
Cast: Rudolph Kleine-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Lien Deyers …
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Heroes and madmen abound in this Fritz Lang double feature! In Spies (1929), a world-savvy woman of intrigue and her James Bond-like love interest match wits with a wheelchair-bound evil…