"Actor: Peter Lorre"

• 3 Classics Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 2 - My Favourite Brunette / The Road To Hollywood / Suddenly | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  My Favourite Brunette: Witness Bob Hope's own unique brand of film comedy as he teams up with the great screen beauty Dorothy Lamour (who later co-starred with him in many of the classic Road To... movies along with Bing Crosby). Co-starring Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney Jr. Hope romps through this yarn playing a bumbling photographer turned private eye and finds himself involved with a spy caper the mob and a dangerous brunette. Road To Hollywood: A fictional account

• Cary Grant | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive

• Fantastic Voyage/Voyage to Bottom of the Sea | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Irwin Allen's visually impressive but scientifically silly Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea updates 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as the world's most advanced experimental submarine manoeuvres under the North Pole while the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire, giving the concept "global warming" an entirely new dimension. As the Earth broils in temperatures approaching 170 degrees F, Walter Pidgeon's maniacally driven Admiral Nelson hijacks the Seaview sub and plays tag with the world's combined naval forces on a race to the South Pacific, where he plans to extinguish the interstellar fire with a well-placed nuclear missile. But first he has to fight a mutinous crew, an alarmingly effective saboteur, not one but two giant squid attacks and a host of design flaws that nearly cripple the mission (note to Nelson: think backup generators). Barbara Eden shimmies to Frankie Avalon's trumpet solos in the most form-fitting naval uniform you've ever seen; fish-loving Peter Lorre plays in the shark tank; gloomy religious fanatic Michael Ansara preaches Armageddon; and Joan Fontaine looks very uncomfortable playing an armchair psychoanalyst. It's all pretty absurd, but Allen pumps it up with larger-than-life spectacle and lovely miniature work. Fantastic Voyage is the original psychedelic inner-space adventure. When a brilliant scientist falls into a coma with an inoperable blood clot in the brain, a surgical team embarks on a top-secret journey to the centre of the mind in a high-tech military submarine shrunk to microbial dimensions. Stephen Boyd stars as a colourless commander sent to keep an eye on things (though his eyes stay mostly on shapely medical assistant Raquel Welch), while Donald Pleasence is suitably twitchy as the claustrophobic medical consultant. The science is shaky at best, but the imaginative spectacle is marvellous: scuba-diving surgeons battle white blood cells, tap the lungs to replenish the oxygen supply and shoot the aorta like daredevil surfers. The film took home a well-deserved Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Director Richard Fleischer, who had previously turned Disney's 1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea into one of the most riveting submarine adventures of all time, creates a picture so taut with cold-war tensions and cloak-and-dagger secrecy that niggling scientific contradictions (such as, how do miniaturised humans breathe full-sized air molecules?) seem moot. --Sean Axmaker

• The Secret Agent | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-7.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  England mourns the loss of war hero and famed novelist Edgar Brodie as this tangled spy mystery begins. The only problem is that Brodie (John Gielgud) is among the last to know. Returning from the war he discovers that he has been declared dead singled out for a new identity and given a special assignment that will include his new wife Elsa (Madeleine Carrol). They are joined by the cool and deadly hit man the General (Peter Lorre) and also pick up the talkative gadfly American Robert Marvin (Robert Young). From the start the mission goes awry as the trio of British agents discover their local informant dead with a button clenched in his hand the only clue to who killed him. As they struggle to complete their mission a complex love tangle develops with Robert and the General competing for Elsa's affections as she gauges Brodie's indifference. Each follows his or her best instincts setting up the dramatic climax.

• The Maltese Falcon Steelbook | Blu Ray | (28/01/2013) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who'll take the fall for his partner's murder. An all-star cast (including Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook Jr.) joins Bogart in this crackling mystery masterwork written for the screen (from Dashiell Hammett's novel) and directed by John Huston. This nominee for 3 Academy Awards - Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Greenstreet) and Screenplay (Huston) - catapulted Bogart to stardom and launched Huston's directorial career. All with a bird and a bang! Special Features: Commentary by Eric Lax Sergeant York Theatrical Trailer - Warner Night at the Movies Newsreel - Warner Night at the Movies The Gay Parisian - Warner Night at the Movies Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt - Warner Night at the Movies Meet John Doughboy - Warner Night at the Movies The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Humphrey The Trailer of Humphrey Bogart - 1997 TCM Documentary Breakdowns of 1941 Make-up Tests 2/8/1943 Lux Radio Broadcast - Audio Vault 9/20/1943 Screen Guild Theater Broadcast - Audio Vault 7/3/1946 Academy Award Theater Broadcast - Audio Vault Satan Met a Lady (1936) - Theatrical Trailers

• Vincent Price and Roger Corman Present: Six Gothic Tales | Blu Ray | (08/12/2014) from £105.28   |  Saving you £-20.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £84.99

  From the Merchant of Menace Vincent Price and the King of the Bs Roger Corman come six Gothic tales inspired by the pen of Edgar Allan Poe. In The Fall of the House of Usher a young man learns of a family curse that threatens his happiness with his bride-to-be. In The Pit and the Pendulum a brother investigates the untimely death of sister played by Barbara Steele. Tales of Terror adapts three Poe classics Morella The Black Cat and The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar each starring a horror icon. The Raven is a comic take on the famous poem concerning three rival magicians. In The Haunted Palace a newcomer in a New England town is suspected of being a warlock. And in The Tomb of Ligeia filmed in Norfolk and at Stonehenge a widower's upcoming marriage plans are thwarted by his dead first wife. The six films boast a remarkable cast list: not just Price and Steele (Black Sunday) but also Boris Karloff (Frankenstein) Peter Lorre (M The Beast with Five Fingers) Lon Chaney Jr (The Wolf Man Spider Baby) Basil Rathbone (The Black Cat) and a very young Jack Nicholson. Adapted for the screen by Richard Matheson (The Twilight Zone I Am Legend) and Robert Towne (Chinatown) these Six Gothic Tales now rank as classic examples of sixties horror cinema. Special Features: Limited Edition boxed-set High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of all six features presented across six Blu-rays Original uncompressed mono PCM Audio for all films Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for all films Numerous new and archive commentaries interviews and featurettes for each film! The Directors: Roger Corman an hour-long documentary on the filmmaker featuring contributions from James Cameron Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard Original Theatrical Trailers Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork for all six films Limited edition 200-page collector's book containing new writing on all films plus reprints and reproductions to be announced soon!

• 3 Classic Mickey Rooney Films Of The Silver Screen - Quicksand / My Outlaw Brother / Mickey The Great | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Fans of the evergreen Mickey Rooney need look no further! This compilation features three relatively obscure films fronted by ""the Mickster""! Quicksand (Dir. Irving Pichel 1950): Dan Brady (Mickey Rooney) is a skirt-chasing auto mechanic who meets brassy blond temptress Vera Novak (Jeanne Cagney - James Cagney's sister) and falls all over himself trying to please her which includes lying cheating and stealing. The problem is Nick Dramoshag (Peter Lorre) the owner of a seedy San Francisco carnival has the hots for her too! Dan's girlfriend Helen Calder (Barbara Bates) watches helplessly as Dan slides deeper and deeper into a quagmire of deception and desire. My Outlaw Brother (Dir. Elliott Nugent 1951): Mickey Rooney stars as a New York city slicker who goes out west to find the big brother he so looks up to. On his journey he hooks up with a lawman intent on bagging a big time criminal. Little do they know that they're after the same man! Mickey The Great (Dir. Jesse Duffy 1937): An anthology of Mickey McGuire (Mickey Rooney) comedies.

• The Mysterious Mr Moto | DVD | (11/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Murder for hire! The world-famous Japanese detective is plunged into a deadly maze of deception in this fi fth episodeof the hugely popular Mr. Moto series.After orchestrating a daring escape from the infamous Devil's Island prison, an undercover Mr. Moto (Lorre) flees wi thhis cellmate - a ruthless murderer - to London. Determined to infiltrate the killer's gang of assassins and discover the identity of it's leader. Mr. Moto must use all of his wits - and disguises - to trap a criminal mastermind and destroy his evil organisation...before he strikes again!

• Mr Moto In Danger Island | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mr. Moto finds himself between a rock and a hard place in the seventh episode of this enduringly popular adventure classic!Danger has a special sparkle when Mr. Moto heads to Puerto Rico to put a stop to the glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market! But his smuggling investigation quickly turns into a murder mystery when both an undercover government agent and a top political figure wind up dead - and Moto begins to suspect that he's going to need a gem of a plan...to put these crooks on ice!

• The Film Noir Collection - Quicksand | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (48.44%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Dan Brady is a struggling garage mechanic who fancies himself a ladies' man. Ignoring 'nice' girl Helen he casts his eye at a waitress Vera Novak. To impress Vera Dan 'borrows' a twenty from the till of his tightfisted boss Mackey intending to replace it the next day. All goes well until Mackey's accountant shows up to check the cash register. Panicked Dan cannot replace the money he owes; he needs a plan. Dan's lifes spirals out of control as he is immersed in the quicksand of a life of crime.

• Casablanca 80th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition with Steelbook | Blu Ray | (07/11/2022) from £100.81   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman light up the screen in one of the most enduring romances in movie history. At his Moroccan nightclub, cynic Rick Blaine (Bogart) turns a blind eye to the misery of WWII until his former lover, Ilsa Lund (Bergman), walks through the door, forcing Rick to choose between a life with the woman he loves or becoming the hero she needs. Product Features 3-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition Includes: Steelbook Rigid Slipcase 32-Page Vintage Pressbook 2-Sided Poster 7 Art Card Reproductions: 3 Lobby Cards, 3 Location/Blueprint Sketches, Letter of Transit Custom Envelope Special Features: Introduction by Lauren Bacall Two Separate Commentaries: Roger Ebert and Film Historian Rudy Behlmer Also on Blu-ray: Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic Warner Night at the Movies Great Performances: Bacall on Bogart You Must Remember This: A Tribute to Casablanca As Time Goes By: The Children Remember Deleted Scenes Outtakes Cartoons Audio-Only Scoring Stage Sessions 19/11/47 Vox Pop Radio Broadcast Theatrical Trailers Added Bonus Disc: You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story The Brothers Warner Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul Documentary And More

• Alfred Hitchcock | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Secret Agent (1936): Alfred Hitchcock filmed Somerset Maugham's WWI spy story 'Ashenden' with his typical mix of ironic humour and suspenseful set pieces. Novelist Edgar Brodie (John Gielgud) has his death faked by British Intelligence. Giving him a new identity as Richard Ashenden they persuade him to undertake an espionage commission in Switzerland. Accompanied by beautiful Elsa Carrington (Madeleine Carroll) posing as his wife and the General (Peter Lorre) an insane professional killer Brodie/Ashenden becomes embroiled in murder intrigue and a pursuit through the Swiss Alps... The Farmer's Wife (1928): Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) is a condescending farmer who finds himself all alone. His wife has died and his daughter has just gotten married. To find a new spouse Sweetland and his housekeeper Minta (Lillian Hall-Davis) make a list of the women who live nearby assuming that any one of them would kill to be his bride. But farmer Sweetland is in for a big surprise--and his ego is in for a major bruising--until the lovelorn Sweetland can acknowledge that he is secretly admired by his housekeeper. Gordon Harker gives an amusing performance as the old farmhand in this faithful adaptation of a play by Eden Phillpotts. Rich And Strange (1931): Mixing silent film techniques with the new element of sound - only one-fifth of the film offers dialogue - Rich And Strange tells the charming story of Fred Hill (Henry Kendall) and his wife Emily (Joan Barry) a small-town British couple who inherit some money from a rich uncle and suddenly decide to take a world cruise. Both however find themselves out of their element and their attempts at extramarital adventures fail miserably. Their newfound sophistication having backfired the couple will have to try to return to good old England but their journey will be full of mishaps and unexpected disaster. Released under the title East Of Shanghai in the United States the film was based on the novel by Dale Collins and was a departure for Hitchcock in both style and tone. Juno And The Paycock (1930): Juno And The Paycock is set in Ireland chronicling the financial and emotional ups and downs of the Boyle clan. When the father learns that he is about to inherit a fortune he and his family go shopping with a vengeance and rack up some serious debts. Furthermore the promise of wealth also makes the Boyles very haughty and they even dump their working-class friends. However the Boyles find themselves in big trouble - financially and otherwise - when it is revealed that there is no inheritance after all. Juno And The Paycock was the first solo screenwriting credit for Alma Reville Hitchcock's wife and lifelong collaborator. The film was based on Sean O'Casey's hit play; it was released in the United States under the title The Shame Of Mary Boyle. The Lady Vanishes (1938): Intrigue and espionage and the effects on the lives and futures of passengers aboard a Trans-Continental Express emerge when a girl traveller (Margaret Lockwood) returning from a holiday strikes up an acquaintance with a middle-aged English governess who during the journey mysteriously disappears from her compartment. The girl seeking an explanation for the disappearance is accused of hallucinating and is nearly convinced that her new friend does not exist. However further enquiries made among the passengers reveal the curious behaviour of a group of foreign government agents who are also travelling as passengers... Classic Hitchcock!

• Double Confession | DVD | (11/02/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ken Annakin directed this 1950 production. He went on to direct many pictures including Battle of the Bulge and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. Derek Farr stars in this story of murder and criminal gangs around British seaside resorts. Filmed mostly in Hastings and Bexhill, Farr visits his ex wife only to find her murdered. In his attempts to find the killer he meets gang boss William Hartnell and his physco side kick played by Peter Lorre. This long lost film has been restored to a very high standard.

• Mr Moto Takes A Vacation | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Screen-giant Peter Lorre mixes business and pleasure in his final appearance as secret-agent Mr. Moto!All work and no play makes Mr. Moto (Lorre) a busy detective! Mr. Moto heads to Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. But the action heats up and the suspense soars when the precious treasure begins its perilous journey to America and Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask a cunning thief who will stop at nothing - not even murder- to get what he wants!

• Think Fast Mr Moto | DVD | (11/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Murder, intrigue and seduction! The first instalment of the classic Mr. Moto detective series.When his import/export business is infiltrated by international diamond smugglers, Mr. Moto (Lorre) must follow a trail of clues littered with beautiful women, glittering gems and deadly assassins. Making his way from the mysterious streets of San Francisco's Chinatown to the dark and dangerous alleys of Shanghai Mr. Moto will stop at nothing to bring the culprits to justice.even i f it means making the ultimate sacrifice!

• M | Blu Ray | (22/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Of all Fritz Lang's creations none have been more innovative or influential than M the film that launched German cinema into the sound era with stunning sophistication and mesmerising artistry. A spate of child killings has stricken a terrified Berlin. Peter Lorre gives a legendary performance as the murderer Hans Beckert who soon finds himself chased by all levels of society. From cinema's first serial killer hunt Lang pulls back to encompass social tapestry police procedural and underworld conspiracies in an astonishingly multi-faceted and level-headed look at a deeply incendiary topic. One of the greatest psychological thrillers of all time M remains as fresh and startling almost 80 years on.

• Mr Moto's Last Warning | DVD | (11/06/2012) from £9.05   |  Saving you £3.94 (30.30%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Peter Lorre's Mr. Moto sets sail for an explosive high-seas adventure in his sixth spine-tingling detective mystery!The world teeters on the brink of war when a nefarious band of foreign saboteurs hatches a devastating plot to blow upthe French fleet and blame it on the British! But when Mr. Moto sets out to trap the conspirators - only to find himselfcaptured instead - the world's greatest detective must use all of his wits to diffuse a ticking time bomb of globaldestruction...before world peace is doomed to a watery grave!

• The Man Who Knew Too Much | DVD | (31/01/2000) from £8.96   |  Saving you £1.03 (11.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Alfred Hitchcock himself called this 1934 British edition of his famous kidnapping story "the work of a talented amateur", while his 1956 Hollywood remake was the consummate act of a professional director. Be that as it may, this earlier movie still has its intense admirers who prefer it over the Jimmy Stewart--Doris Day version, and for some sound reasons. Tighter, wittier, more visually outrageous (back-screen projections of Swiss mountains, a whirly-facsimile of a fainting spell), the film even has a female protagonist (Edna Best in the mom part) unafraid to go after the bad guys herself with a gun. (Did Doris Day do that that? Uh-uh.) While the 1956 film has an intriguing undercurrent of unspoken tensions in nuclear family politics, the 1934 original has a crisp air of British optimism glummed up a bit when a married couple (Best and Leslie Banks) witness the murder of a spy and discover their daughter stolen away by the culprits. The chase leads to London and ultimately to the site of one of Hitch's most extraordinary pieces of suspense (though on this count, it must be said, the later version is superior). Take away distracting comparisons to the remake, and this Man Who Knew Too Much is a milestone in Hitchcock's early career. Peter Lorre makes his British debut as a scarred, scary villain. --Tom Keogh

• Mr Moto Takes A Chance | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £7.89   |  Saving you £5.10 (39.30%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Peter Lorre's world-famous detective, Mr. Moto. strikes again in his fourth spine-tingling adventure!On a mission to unmask the leader of a military uprising in Tong Moi. Mr. Moto finds himself deep in the darkest jungles of Asia posing as an archaeologist. But when his excavation of a local temple unearths a massive cache of weapons and explosives. Mr. Moto is compelled to join forces with a beautiful - but mysterious - adventurer whose interest in Tong Moi may not be as innocent as it seems...

• Mr Moto's Gamble | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Get a ringside seat for murder in the third instalment of this knockout classic detective series! Starring screen-legend Peter Lorre (The Maltese Falcon) and special guest Keye Luke (Charlie Chan's Number One Son).Celebrated as a supersleuth. Mr. Moto (Lorre) comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan (Luke). Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit - or go down for the count...permanently!