HOLLYWOOD, March 23--Peter Lorre, on screen a master of horror but off screen one of the gentlest and funniest of men, was found dead today of an apparent stroke. The body of the 59-year-old ...
Peter Lorre, who had spent the first part of the ... Starting in 1937, he had begun appearing as the titular detective in the ...
Tom Jolliffe offers up ten essential noir films in celebration of Noirvember… We’re into November, also known in some select cinephile circles as Noirvember. In celebration of the film noir genre as ...
With Halloween over, the Christmas movies are beginning to roll in. Check out the new films releasing in theaters this weekend to decide what you want to see. Jennifer Lopez, who dated Sean "Diddy ...
In the 1931 German film "M," Peter Lorre plays a child-killer who embodies many of the traits now thought of as belonging to a child predator, Leistedt and his colleagues observed. "Lorre portrays ...
Can stories about detectives from days gone by help students learn to think more critically? An English lecturer provides ...
12 years after his role as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, Humphrey Bogart starred in Beat the Devil, an underrated parody ...
impressionistic Los Angeles films from the ’70s like “The Long Goodbye” and “Zabriskie Point,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of the discursive detective novel by Thomas Pynchon is ...