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The Lost One (German: Der Verlorene) is a 1951 West German crime drama film directed by Peter Lorre and starring Lorre, Karl John and Renate Mannhardt. It is an art film in the film noir style, based on a true story.
Aug 1, 1984 · ''THE LOST ONE'' (''Der Verlorene''), the 1951 German film that opens today at the Film Forum, is the only movie that was directed by the late Peter Lorre, one of America's favorite character...
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Happily, The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre is no such hack job. It is one of the finest biographies of an actor ever written, on a par with Patricia Bosworth’s Montgomery Clift and Charles Winecoff’s Split Image: The Life of Anthony Perkins. However, the time it took to research and write the Lorre tome may well be unprecedented.
Photos and information about classic film actor Peter Lorre, and the book The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre by Stephen D. Youngkin (University Press of Kentucky, 2005).
May 11, 2023 · Author Youngkin examines Lorre's pivotal relationship with German dramatist Brecht, his experience as an emigre? from Hitler's Germany, his battle with drug addiction, and his struggle with the choice between celebrity and intellectual respectability.--From publisher description. Includes bibliographical references (p. 567-580) and index.
In his sole directorial effort, Peter Lorre (who also cowrote the film) plays a Nazi-era scientist who is forced to murder his fiancee after he discovers that she is surreptitiously selling data from his secret research to the enemies of the Third Reich.
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Peter Lorre's sole directorial adventure from 1951 is his fascinatingly creepy, tangled noir parable of Nazi war guilt.
