The Lost One

by Stephen D. Youngkin

  Schuss im Morgengrauen (A Shot at Dawn) (UFA, 1932). Director: Alfred Zeisler; executive producer: Erich Pommer; producer: Alfred Zeisler; screenplay: Rudolf Katscher, Otto and Egon Eis; based on the play Die Frau und Der Smaragd (The Woman and the Emerald) by Harry Jenkins; cinematography: Konstantin Tschet and Werner Bohne; 73 min. Cast: Heinz Salfner, Ery Bos, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Theodor Loos, Fritz Odemar, Peter Lorre (Klotz), Gerhard Tandar, Kurt Vespermann, Ernst Behmer.

  F.P.1 antwortet nicht (F.P.1 Doesn’t Answer) (UFA, 1932). Director: Karl Hartl; executive producer: Eric Pommer; producer: Eberhard Klagemann; screenplay: Walter Reisch; based on the novel by Kurt Siodmak; cinematography: Günther Rittau, Konstantin Tschet, and Otto Baecker; music: Allan Gray; lyrics: Walter Reisch; 114 min. Cast: Hans Albers, Sybille Schmitz, Paul Hartmann, Peter Lorre (Johnny), Hermann Speelmans, Paul Westermeier, Arthur Peiser, Gustav Püttjer, Georg August Koch, Hans Schneider, Werner Schott, Erik Ode, Philipp Manning, Georg John, Rudolf Platte, Friedrich Gnas.

  Der weisse Dämon (The White Demon) (UFA, 1932). Director: Kurt Gerron; executive producer: Erich Pommer; producer: Bruno Duday; screenplay: Lothar Mayring and Friedrich Zeckendorf; cinematography: Carl Hoffmann; 106 min. Cast: Hans Albers, Lucie Höflich, Gerda Maurus, Trude von Molo, Alfred Abel, Hans Joachim Schaufuss, Raoul Aslan, Peter Lorre (hunchback), Hubert von Meyerinck.

  Stupéfiants (Narcotics) (UFA, 1932). Directors: Kurt Gerron and Roger Le Bon; executive producer: Erich Pommer; producer: Bruno Duday; screenplay: Lothar Mayring and Fritz Zeckendorf; French dialogue: Georges Neveux; cinematography: Carl Hoffmann. Cast: Jean Worms, Jean Mercanton, Jean Murat, Danièle Parola, Jeanne Marie-Laurent, Monique Roland, Raoul Aslan, Peter Lorre (hunchback), Roger Karl, Gaston Mauger, Lucien Callamand, Henry Bonvalet. Note: This is the French version of Der weisse Dämon.

  Was Frauen träumen (What Women Dream) (Super Film GmbH, 1933). Director: Géza von Bolvary; producer: Julius Haimann; screenplay: Franz Schulz and Billie Wilder; cinematography: Willy Goldberger; music: Robert Stolz; lyrics: Robert Gilbert; 81 min. Cast: Nora Gregor, Gustav Fröhlich, Kurt Horwitz, Otto Wallburg, Peter Lorre (Otto Füssli).

  Unsichtbare Gegner (Invisible Opponent) (Pan-Film, 1933). Director: Rudolf Katscher; producer: Sam Spiegel; screenplay: Lothar Mayring, Heinrich Oberländer, and Richard Steinbicker; based on an idea by Ludwig von Wohl; cinematography: Eugen Schüfftan and Georg Bruckbauer; 87 min. Cast: Gerda Maurus, Paul Hartmann, Oskar Homolka, Peter Lorre (Henry Pless), Paul Kemp, Raoul Aslan, Leonard Steckel, H. Kyser, Eva Schmidt-Kaiser.

  Les requins du Pétrole (The Oil Sharks) (Pan-Film, 1933). Director: Henri Ducoin; producer: Sam Spiegel; screenplay: Lothar Mayring, Heinrich Oberländer, Richard Steinbicker; French dialogue: Fred Ellis; based on an idea by Ludwig von Wohl; cinematography: Eugen Schüfftan and Georg Bruckbauer; 87 min. Cast: Arlette Marchal, Vivian Grey, Gabriel Gabrio, Jean Galland, Raymond Cordy, Robert Ozanne, Raoul Aslan, Peter Lorre (Pless). Note: This is the French version of Unsichtbare Gegner.

  Du haut en bas (From Top to Bottom) (Tobis-Klangfilm, 1933). Director: G.W. Pabst; producer: Georges Root; screenplay: Anna Gneyner; based on a play by Ladislaus Bus Fekete; cinematography: Eugen Schuefftan; song “Chaque semaine a sept jours” (“Each Week Has Seven Days”) by Herbert Rappoport; 80 min. Cast: Jean Gabin, Jeannine Crispin, Michel Simon, Mauricet, Wladimir Sokoloff, Leon Morton, Milly Mathis, Margo Lion, Catherine Hessling, Peter Lorre (beggar), Pauline Carton.

  The Man Who Knew Too Much (Gaumont-British, 1934). Director: Alfred Hitchcock; producer: Michael Balcon; associate producer: Ivor Montagu; screenplay: Edwin Greenwood and A.R. Rawlinson; written by Charles Bennett and D.B. Wyndham Lewis; additional dialogue: Emlyn Williams; cinematography: Curt Courant; 75 min. Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre (Abbott), Frank Vosper, Hugh Wakefield, Nova Pilbeam, Pierre Fresnay, Cicely Oates, D.A. Clarke-Smith, George Curzon.

  Mad Love (MGM, 1935). Director: Karl Freund; producer: John W. Considine Jr.; screenplay: P.J. Wolfson and John L. Balderston; based on the novel Les Mains d’Orlac (The Hands of Orlac) by Maurice Renard; translated and adapted by Florence Crewe-Jones; adapted by Guy Endore; cinematography: Chester Lyons and Gregg Toland; 67 min. Cast: Peter Lorre (Dr. Gogol), Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy, Sarah Haden, Edward Brophy, Henry Kolker, Keye Luke, May Beatty.

  Crime and Punishment (Columbia, 1935). Director: Josef von Sternberg; producer: B.P. Schulberg; screenplay: S.K. Lauren and Joseph Anthony; based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; cinematography: Lucien Ballard; 88 min. Cast: Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre (Roderick Raskolnikov), Marian Marsh, Tala Birell, Elisabeth Risdon, Robert Allen, Douglass Dumbrille, Gene Lockhart, Charles Waldron, Thurston Hall, Johnny Arthur, Mrs. Patrick Campbell.

  Secret Agent (Gaumont-British, 1936). Director: Alfred Hitchcock; producer: Ivor Montagu; screenplay: Charles Bennett; additional dialogue: Jesse Laskey Jr.; based on the play by Campbell Dixon and on the novel Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham; cinematography: Bernard Knowles; 75 min. Cast: John Gielgud, Peter Lorre (the General), Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young, Percy Marmont, Florence Kahn, Charles Carson, Lilli Palmer.

  Crack-Up (20th Century–Fox, 1937). Director: Malcolm St. Clair; producer: Samuel G. Engel; screenplay: Charles Kenyon and Sam Mintz; original story: John Goodrich; cinematography: Barney McGill; song “Top Gallants” by Sidney Clare and Harry Akst; 70 min. Cast: Peter Lorre (Colonel Gimpy / Baron Rudolf Maximilian Taggart), Brian Donlevy, Helen Wood, Ralph Morgan, Thomas Beck, Kay Linaker, Lester Matthews, Earl Foxe, J. Carroll Naish, Gloria Roy, Oscar Apfel, Paul Stanton, Howard C. Hickman.

  Nancy Steele Is Missing (20th Century–Fox, 1937). Director: George Marshall; producer: Darryl F. Zanuck; screenplay: Hal Long and Gene Fowler; based on a story by Charles Frances Coe; cinematography: Barney McGill; 86 min. Cast: Victor McLaglen, Walter Connolly, Peter Lorre (Professor Sturm), June Lang, Robert Kent, Shirley Deane, John Carradine, Jane Darwell, Frank Conroy, Granville Bates, George Taylor, Kane Richmond, Margaret Fielding, De Witt Jennings, George Chandler, George Humbert, Robert Murphy, Ed Deering, Frederic Burton, Stanley Andrews, Guy Usher.

  Think Fast, Mr. Moto (20th Century–Fox, 1937). Director: Norman Foster; producer: Sol M. Wurtzel; screenplay: Howard Ellis Smith and Norman Foster; based on the story “That Girl and Mr. Moto” by John P. Marquand; cinematography: Harry Jackson; song “The Shy Violet” by Sidney Clare and Harry Akst; 66 min. Cast: Peter Lorre (Kentaro Moto), Virginia Field, Thomas Beck, Sig Rumann, Murray Kinnell, John Rogers, Lotus Long, George Cooper, J. Carroll Naish, Frederik Vogeding.

  Lancer Spy (20th Century–Fox, 1937). Director: Gregory Ratoff; producer: Darryl F. Zanuck; screenplay: Philip Dunne; based on the novel by Marthe McKenna; cinematography: Barney McGill; 78 min. Cast: Dolores Del Rio, George Sanders, Peter Lorre (Major Sigfried Gruning), Joseph Schildkraut, Virginia Field, Sig Rumann, Maurice Moscovich, Lionel Atwill, Luther Adler, Fritz Feld, Holmes Herbert, Lester Matthews, Carlos J. de Valdez, Gregory Gaye, Joan Carol, Claude King, Kenneth Hunter, Frank Reicher, Leonard Mudie, Lynn Bari.

  Thank You, Mr. Moto (20th Century–Fox, 1937). Director: Norman Foster; producer: Sol M. Wurtzel; screenplay: Willis Cooper and Norman Foster; based on a story by John P. Marquand; cinematography: Virgil Miller; 68 min. Cast: Peter Lorre (Kentaro Moto), Thomas Beck, Pauline Frederick, Jayne Regan, Sidney Blackmer, Sig Rumann, John Carradine, William von Brincken, Nedda Harrigan, Philip Ahn, John Bleifer.

  Mr. Moto’s Gamble (20th Century–Fox, 1938). Director: James Tinling; producer: Sol M. Wurtzel; screenplay: Charles Belden and Jerry Cady; based on the character “Mr. Moto” created by John P. Marquand; cinematography: Lucien Andriot; 71 min. Cast: Peter Lorre (Kentaro Moto), Keye Luke, Dick Baldwin, Lynn Bari, Douglas Fowley, Jayne Regan, Harold Huber, Maxie Rosenbloom, John Hamilton, George E. Stone, Bernard Nedell, Charles Williams, Ward Bond, Cliff Clark, Edward Marr, Lon Chaney Jr., Russ Clark, Pierre Watkins, Charles D. Brown, Paul Fox.

  Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (20th Century–Fox, 1938). Director: Norma
n Foster; producer: Sol M. Wurtzel; screenplay: Lou Breslow and John Patrick; based on the original story “Look Out, Mr. Moto” by Willis Cooper and Norman Foster; based on the character “Mr. Moto” created by John P. Marquand; cinematography: Virgil Miller; 57 min. Cast: Peter Lorre (Kentaro Moto), Rochelle Hudson, Robert Kent, J. Edward Bromberg, Chick Chandler, George Regas, Fredrik Vogeding.

  I’ll Give a Million (20th Century–Fox, 1938). Director: Walter Lang; producer: Darryl F. Zanuck; associate producer: Kenneth Macgowan; screenplay: Boris Ingster and Milton Sperling; based on a story by Cesare Zavattini and Giaci Mondaini; cinematography: Lucien Andriot; 90 min. Cast: Warner Baxter, Marjorie Weaver, Peter Lorre (Louie), Jean Hersholt, John Carradine, J. Edward Bromberg, Lynn Bari, Fritz Feld, Sig Rumann, Christian Rub, Paul Harvey, Charles Halton, Frank Reicher, Frank Dawson, Harry Hayden, Stanley Andrews, Lillian Porter, Luis Alberni, Rafaela Ottiano, Georges Renavent, Rolfe Sedan, Eddy Conrad, Egon Breecher, Frank Puglia, Michael Visavoff, Alex Novinsky, Armand Kaliz.

  Mysterious Mr. Moto (20th Century–Fox, 1938). Director: Norman Foster; producer: Sol M. Wurtzel; screenplay: Philip MacDonald and Norman Foster; based on the character “Mr. Moto” created by John P. Marquand; cinematography: Virgil Miller; 65 min. Cast: Peter Lorre (Kentaro Moto), Mary Maguire, Henry Wilcoxon, Eric Rhodes, Harold Huber, Leon Ames, Forrester Harvey, Fredrik Vogeding, Lester Matthews, John Rogers, Karen Sorrell, Mitchell Lewis.

  Mr. Moto’s Last Warning (20th Century–Fox, 1939). Director: Norman Foster; producer: Sol M. Wurtzel; screenplay: Philip MacDonald and Norman Foster; based on the character “Mr. Moto” created by John P. Marquand; cinematography: Virgil Miller; 71 min. Cast: Peter Lorre (Kentaro Moto), Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Field, John Carradine, George Sanders, Joan Carol, Robert Coote, Margaret Irving, Leyland Hodgson, John Davidson.

  Danger Island (20th Century–Fox, 1939). Director: Herbert I. Leeds; producer: Sol M. Wurtzel; screenplay: Peter Milne; based on story ideas by John Reinhardt and George Bricker; based on the novel Murder in Trinidad by John W. Vandercook; cinematography: Lucien Andriot; 70 min. Cast: Peter Lorre (Kentaro Moto), Jean Hersholt, Amanda Duff, Warren Hymer, Richard Lane, Leon Ames, Douglass Dumbrille, Charles D. Brown, Paul Harvey, Robert Lowery, Eddie Marr, Harry Woods.

  Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (20th Century–Fox, 1939). Director: Norman Foster; producer: Sol M. Wurtzel; screenplay: Philip MacDonald and Norman Foster; based on the character “Mr. Moto” created by John P. Marquand; cinematography: Charles Clarke; 61 min. Cast: Peter Lorre (Kentaro Moto), Joseph Schildkraut, Lionel Atwill, Virginia Field, John King, Iva Stewart, George P. Huntley Jr., Victor Varconi, John Bleifer, Honorable Wu, Morgan Wallace, Anthony Warde, Harry Strang, John Davidson.

  Strange Cargo (MGM, 1940). Director: Frank Borzage; producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz; screenplay: Lawrence Hazard; based on the novel Not Too Narrow … Not Too Deep by Richard Sale; cinematography: Robert Planck; 111 min. Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre (M’sieur Cochon), Paul Lukas, Albert Dekker, J. Edward Bromberg, Eduardo Ciannelli, John Arledge, Frederick Worlock, Bernard Nedell, Victor Varconi.

  I Was an Adventuress (20th Century–Fox, 1940). Director: Gregory Ratoff; producer: Darryl F. Zanuck; associate producer: Nunnally Johnson; screenplay: Karl Tunberg, Don Ettlinger, and John O’Hara; based on an original production by Gregor Rabinovitsch and the French film J’étais une aventurière (I Was an Adventuress), written by Jacques Companeez, Herbert Juttke, Hans Jacoby, and Michel Duran; cinematography: Leon Shamroy and Edward Cronjager; dances staged by George Balanchine; musical direction: David Buttolph; 80 min. Cast: Vera Zorina, Richard Greene, Erich von Stroheim, Peter Lorre (Polo), Sig Rumann, Fritz Feld.

  Island of Doomed Men (Columbia, 1940). Director: Charles Barton; producer: Wallace MacDonald; screenplay: Robert D. Andrews; original story: Robert D. Andrews; cinematography: Benjamin Kline; 68 min. Cast: Peter Lorre (Stephen Danel), Rochelle Hudson, Robert Wilcox, Don Beddoe, George E. Stone, Kenneth MacDonald, Charles Middleton, Stanley Brown, Earl Gunn.

  Stranger on the Third Floor (RKO, 1940). Director: Boris Ingster; producer: Lee Marcus; screenplay: Frank Partos; story by Frank Partos; cinematography: Nicholas Musuraca; 67 min. Cast: Peter Lorre (Stranger), John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron, Elisha Cook Jr., Charles Halton, Ethel Griffies, Cliff Clark, Oscar O’Shea, Alec Craig, Otto Hoffman.

  You’ll Find Out (RKO, 1940). Director: David Butler; producer: David Butler; screenplay: James V. Kern; story by James V. Kern and David Butler; special material by Monte Brice, Andrew Bennison, R.T.M. Scott; cinematography: Frank Redman; music: James McHugh; lyrics: John Mercer; musical director: Roy Webb; special sound and musical effects: Sonovox; 95 min. Cast: Kay Kyser; Peter Lorre (Prof. Carl Fenninger); Boris Karloff; Bela Lugosi; Helen Parrish; Dennis O’Keefe; Alma Kruger; Joseph Eggenton; Kay Kyser’s band, featuring Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Ish Kabibble, Sully Mason, and “The Kollege of Musical Knowledge.”

  The Face behind the Mask (Columbia, 1941). Director: Robert Florey; producer: Wallace MacDonald; screenplay: Allen Vincent and Paul Jarrico; story: Arthur Levinson; based on a radio play by Thomas Edward O’Connell; cinematography: Franz Planer; 69 min. Cast: Peter Lorre (Janos Szabo), Evelyn Keyes, Don Beddoe, George E. Stone, John Tyrrell, Stanley Brown, Al Seymour, James Seay, Warren Ashe, Charles Wilson, George McKay.

  Mr. District Attorney (Republic, 1941). Director: William Morgan; producer: Leonard Fields; screenplay: Karl Brown and Malcolm Stuart Boylan; based on the radio program created by Phillips H. Lord; cinematography: Reggie Lanning; 69 min. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Florence Rice, Peter Lorre (Mr. Hyde), Stanley Ridges, Minor Watson, Charles Arnt, Joan Blair, Charles Halton, Alan Edwards, George Watts, Sarah Edwards, Helen Brown, Ben Welden.

  They Met in Bombay (MGM, 1941). Director: Clarence Brown; producer: Hunt Stromberg; screenplay: Edwin Justus Mayer, Anita Loos, and Leon Gordon; based on a story by John Kafka; cinematography: William Daniels; 92 min. Cast: Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre (Captain Chang), Jessie Ralph, Reginald Owen, Matthew Boulton, Edward Ciannelli, Luis Alberni, Rosina Galli, Jay Novello.

  The Maltese Falcon (Warner Bros., 1941). Director: John Huston; producers: Hal B. Wallace (executive) and Henry Blanke (associate); screenplay: John Huston; based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett; cinematography: Arthur Edeson; 100 min. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre (Joel Cairo), Barton MacLane, Lee Patrick, Sydney Greenstreet, Ward Bond, Jerome Cowan, Elisha Cook Jr., James Burke, Murray Alper, John Hamilton.

  All Through the Night (Warner Bros., 1942). Director: Vincent Sherman; producers: Hal B. Wallis (executive), Jerry Wald (associate); screenplay: Edwin Gilbert and Leonard Spigelgass; based on a story by Leonard Q. Ross and Leonard Spigelgass; cinematography: Sid Hickox; song “All Through the Night,” lyrics: Johnny Mercer; music: Arthur Schwartz; 107 min. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne, Jane Darwell, Frank McHugh, Peter Lorre (Pepi), Judith Anderson, William Demarest, Jackie C. Gleason, Phil Silvers, Wally Ford, Barton MacLane, Edward Brophy, Martin Kosleck, Jean Ames, Ludwig Stössel, Irene Seidner, James Burke, Ben Weldon, Hans Schumm, Charles Cane, Frank Sully, Sam McDaniel.

  Invisible Agent (Universal, 1942). Director: Edwin L. Marin; producer: Frank Lloyd; associate producer: George Waggner; screenplay: Curtis Siodmak; suggested by The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells; cinematography: Leo White; special photographic effects: John P. Fulton; 79 min. Cast: Ilona Massey, Jon Hall, Peter Lorre (Baron Ikito), Sir Cedric Hardwicke, J. Edward Bromberg, Albert Basserman, John Litel, Holmes Herbert, Keye Luke.

  The Boogie Man Will Get You (Columbia, 1942). Director: Lew Landers; producer: Colbert Clark; screenplay: Edwin Blum; based on a story by Hal Fimberg and Robert B. Hunt; adaptation: Paul Gangelin; cinematography: Henry Freulich; 66 min. Cast: Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre (Dr. Lorentz), Maxie Rosenbloom, Larry Parkes, (Miss) Jeff Donnell.

  Casablanca (Warner Bros., 1943). Director: Michael Curtiz; producer: Hal B. Wallis; screenplay:
Philip G. and Julius J. Epstein and Howard Koch; based on the play Everybody Comes to Rick’s by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison; cinematography: Arthur Edeson; songs: M.K. Jerome and Jack Scholl; 112 min. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre (Ugarte), S.Z. Sakall, Madeleine LeBeau, Dooley Wilson, Joy Page, John Qualen, Leonid Kinskey, Curt Bois.

  Background to Danger (Warner Bros., 1943). Director: Raoul Walsh; producer: Jerry Wald; screenplay: W.R. Burnett; based on the novel by Eric Ambler; cinematography: Tony Gaudio; 80 min. Cast: George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre (Nikolai Zaleshoff), Osa Massen, Turhan Bey, Williard Robertson, Kurt Katch.

  The Constant Nymph (Warner Bros., 1943). Director: Edmund Goulding; producer: Henry Blanke; screenplay: Kathryn Scola; based on the novel by Margaret Kennedy and the play by Margaret Kennedy and Basil Dean; cinematography: Tony Gaudio; 112 min. Cast: Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn, Brenda Marshall, Dame May Whitty, Peter Lorre (Fritz Bercovy), Joyce Reynolds, Jean Muir, Montague Love, Edward Ciannelli, Jeanine Crispin.

  The Cross of Lorraine (MGM, 1943). Director: Tay Garnett; producer: Edwin Knopf; screenplay: Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr.; based on a story by Lilo Damert and Robert Aisner and on the novel A Thousand Shall Fall by Hans Habe; cinematography: Sidney Wagner; 89 min. Cast: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Whorf, Joseph Calleia, Peter Lorre (Sergeant Berger), Hume Cronyn, Billy Roy, Tonio Selwart, Jack Lambert, Wallace Ford, Donald Curtis, Jack Edwards Jr., Richard Ryen, Frederick Giermann.