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Lorre began acting on stage in Vienna aged 17, where he worked with Viennese Art Nouveau artist and puppeteer Richard Teschner. He then moved to Breslau and later to Zürich. In the late 1920s, the actor [8] moved to Berlin, where he worked with Bertolt Brecht, including a role in Brecht's Man Equals Man and as Dr. Nakamura in the musical Happy ...
Mr. Moto's Last Warning is the only Peter Lorre Moto film in the public domain.It is available at the Internet Archive. [4]The film was announced in April 1938. [5] [6] The title was then changed to Mr. Moto in Egypt before it eventually became Mr Moto's Last Warning.
In January 1937 Fox announced that Peter Lorre would play Moto and that Think Fast would co-star Virginia Field. Lorre had just signed with Fox and made two films, Crack-Up and Nancy Steele Is Missing! [10] He said he accepted the role because it gave him a rare chance to play a hero. [11] In February Thomas Beck signed as the male romantic lead.
Mr. Moto is a fictional Japanese secret agent created by the American author John P. Marquand.He appeared in six novels by Marquand published between 1935 and 1957. Marquand initially created the character for the Saturday Evening Post, which was seeking stories with an Asian hero after the death of Charlie Chan's creator Earl Derr
M is a 1931 German mystery thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre in his third screen role as Hans Beckert, a serial killer who targets children. Both Lang's first sound film and an early example of a procedural drama, [2] M centers on the manhunt for Beckert conducted by both the police and organized crime.
The Face Behind the Mask is a 1941 American crime horror film directed by Robert Florey and starring Peter Lorre, Evelyn Keyes and Don Beddoe.The screenplay was adapted by Paul Jarrico, Arthur Levinson, and Allen Vincent from the play Interim, written by Thomas Edward O'Connell (1915–1961).
Crack-Up was a low-budget B movie that was enhanced by the sinister presence of Lorre who "... plays his limited role with a refreshing sense of sardonic humor." [4] Leonard Maltin's review opined, "Not-bad espionage tale, with Lorre highly amusing as a spy trying to secure plans for experimental airplane; Donlevy's the test pilot he tries to ...
Stranger on the Third Floor is a 1940 American film noir directed by Boris Ingster and starring Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, and Charles Waldron, and featuring Elisha Cook Jr. It was written by Frank Partos. Modern research has shown that Nathanael West wrote the final version of the screenplay, but was uncredited. [2] [1]