The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre: The Man, The Actor
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 3
Through five years (1955 to 1960) on CBS, director Alfred
Hitchcock hosted the television anthology series Alfred Hitchcock
Presents. The 39 half-hour episodes included in this 5-disc DVD box-set
of the 1957-1958 season originally aired in black-and-white and boasted such
guest-stars as Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Jack
Klugman, William Shatner, and Joseph Cotton.
In “The Diplomatic Corpse” (Dec. 8, 1957), Lorre
plays “Tomas Salgado”, a Mexican police official who tries to help
George Peppard and Mary Scott locate the missing body of Scott’ elderly
aunt (Isobel Elsam).
All Regions
Date: Oct. 9, 2007
Retail: $39.98
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The Episodes:
- The Glass Eye
- The Mail Order Prophet
- The Perfect Crime
- Heart of Gold
- Silent Witness
- Reward to Finder
- Enough Rope for Two
- Last Request
- The Young One
- The Diplomatic Corpse
- The Deadly
- Miss Paisley's Cat
- Night of the Execution
- The Percentage
- Together
- Sylvia
- The Motive
- Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty
- The Equalizer
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- On the Nose
- Guest for Breakfast
- The Return of the Hero
- The Right Kind of House
- The Foghorn
- Flight to the East
- Bull in a China Shop
- Disappearing Trick
- Lamb to the Slaughter
- Fatal Figures
- Death Sentence
- The Festive Season
- Listen, Listen...!
- Post Mortem
- The Crocodile Case
- Dip in the Pool
- The Safe Place
- The Canary Sedan
- The Impromptu Murder
- Little White Frock
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Available through these online merchants.
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US Amazon
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Red Skelton Unreleased
Peter Lorre was a favorite of actor and comedian Red
Skelton, who attended his funeral with Vincent Price in 1964. Over the
long run of Red’s CBS comedy-variety TV series of the 1950s and 1960s,
Lorre made at least eight appearances.
The Red Skelton estate has released in a 6-DVD box-set
16 episodes originally airing between 1959 and 1962, with guests such as
Vincent Price, Jayne Mansfield, Mickey Rooney, Cesar Romero, and Peter
Lorre. Includes two bonus discs.
Region 1 only
Date: June 8, 2008
Retail: $29.95
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The Episodes:
- Cauliflower Loses His Birds – guest Vincent Price
- Appleby's Bearded Boarder – guests John Carradine,
Marie Windsor
- Clem's General Store – guests Jayne Mansfield, Jamie
Farr, Jesse White
- Deadeye the Outlaw – guest Mickey Rooney
- Best Man Blues – guests Dick Foran, Maria Palmer
- Appleby's Office Party – guests Marilyn Maxwell,
Harvey Korman
- San Fernando Cal – guests Mary Beth Hughes
- Clem and the Beanstalk
– guests Peter Lorre, Mamie Van Doren
- The Many Skeltons in Las Vegas
- Clem's Other Clem – guest Hans Conreid
- Go Van Gogh – guest Pat Carroll
- Clem and the Beauty Pageant – guests Arthur Godfrey,
Keefe Brasselle
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- San Fernando Loses the Dixie Queen – guest Cesar
Romero
- Appleby the Weatherman – guest
Peter Lorre
- Bolivar and the Roaring ‘20s – guests Barbara
Nichols, Gerald Mohr
- Deadeye the Magician – guests Vincent Price,
Marie Windsor
Bonus Disc 1:
- Good Night and God Bless – guest Jill St. John
- Good Night and God Bless – guest Phyllis Diller
- Good Night and God Bless – guest Jerry Lewis
Bonus Disc 2:
- Live at the Nugget in Sparks
- The Pledge of Allegiance
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The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre
(2005) by Stephen Youngkin – now in its third printing and
winner of the Rondo Award for "Best Book of 2005" – is
available in bookstores everywhere, as well as these online
merchants.
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