Peter Lorre
1) Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
The romantic lovers' triangle between the impossibly heroic Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, his beautiful wife Ilsa and her ex-lover, cynical American Rick Blaine is still the same old story, but it's never looked better.
Pub. Date
1954.
Description
A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
A British family on holiday becomes involved in a political assassination plot and kidnapping. The first of Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thrillers.
"A man and his wife receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet." -- Internet Movie Database.
Pub. Date
[1941]
Description
Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
A concert pianist is partially paralyzed and retires to a gloom-filled mansion with only his secretary and a nurse to look after him. After his sudden, violent death, his disembodied hand returns to the mansion to traumatize his secretary and commit a series of shocking murders.
10) Beat the Devil
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
An offbeat tale of adventure and suspense involving the passengers on a steamer who attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a parcel of land in East Africa believed to be rich with uranium deposits.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1937, 1965
Description
Book summary: Kenton's career as a journalist depended on his facility with languages, his knowledge of European politics, and his quick judgment. Where his judgment sometimes failed him was in his personal life. When he finds himself on a train bound for Austria with insufficient funds after a bad night of gambling, he jumps at the chance to earn a fee to help a refugee smuggle securities across the border. He soon discovers that the documents he...
13) Beat the devil
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Spoof of caper movies in the vein of The Maltese falcon and Key Largo about of bunch of misfits scrambling after some uranium.
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Description
A classic film adaptation of the Broadway comedy about two gentle, but highly lethal, sisters who poison lonely old men as an act of charity. The plot thickens as their nephew discovers their secret and tries to figure a way out of his increasingly more tangled family dilemma.
17) M
Series
Criterion collection volume 30
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
A psychopathic murderer of young girls terrorizes a German city causing public hysteria and intense police investigations, which in turn disrupts organized crime. The contrasting worlds of the police and the underworld are juxtaposed as they both resolve to hunt, capture, and try the murderer.
Based on an actual case, M is an exploration of the most dreaded type of all deviant personalities. The random killer. A psychopathic murderer of young girls...
Pub. Date
p2008
Description
Road to Bali: In the only "Road" film to appear in colour, Road To Bali sees two song-and-dance men hurriedly leaving Melbourne to work as divers. On the way to Bali, they journey to an idyllic island where they compete with each other for the affection of Princess Lala. Meanwhile, some shady locals become interested in the dive after it produces a chest of priceless jewels. Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour also star in this musical comedy.
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