Peter Lorre
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 612 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Titles included: Treasure Island; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; The Incredible Journey; The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit; The Barefoot Executive; The Apple Dumpling Gang.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An easy-going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle Aunts Abby and Martha have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar.
Publisher
Delta Entertainment Corporation
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A vacationing family becomes involved in a plot to assassinate a foreign diplomat when a murdered British agent whispers a secret to the father before dying. The enemy spies kidnap his daughter to ensure his silence.
Series
Publisher
AAE films
Pub. Date
1947.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound,color ; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
Ronnie Jackson is a baby photographer who has always dreamed of becoming a private detective. After meeting mystery woman Carlotta Monlay, a comical and violent adventure begins.
7) Black angel
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman tries to clear the name of her husband, accused of murdering his lover.
Author
Language
English
Description
Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) is a baby photographer who fantasizes being a private eye. A baroness (Dorothy Lamour) actually mistakes him for one and asks for help locating her missing husband. This is followed by sinister doings in a gloomy mansion & sanatorium, with Peter Lorre & Lon Chaney Jr. Hope's character ends up framed for murder with every plot twist & parody of thriller cliches imaginable.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (146 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mad love: A famed surgeon adores an actress, but when she turns to him to repair her pianist husband's severed hands, he replaces them with the hands of a murderer.
The devil-doll: A Devil's Island escapee poses as a toy shop worker, using secrets of miniaturizing human beings to do his bidding and exact his revenge on those who sent him to prison.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Special edition ; Widescreen version (2.55:first).
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
Series
Publisher
Treasure Box Collection
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ronnie Jackson is a baby photographer who has always dreamed of becoming a private detective. After meeting mystery woman Carlotta Monlay, a comical and violent adventure begins.
12) Beat the devil
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003, ©1953
Edition
Collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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 believed to be rich with uranium deposits.
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the body of Dimitrios Makropoulos (Zachary Scott) washes ashore in Istanbul, there is cause for celebration all across Europe. The devious sociopath has left as his legacy an array of crimes including blackmail, thievery, murder and high treason. Interested in chronicling the dead man's unscrupulous exploits, mystery writer Cornelius Leyden (Lorre) takes up his trail, aided by a mysterious man named Peters (Greenstreet). But as Leyden zeroes...
15) Tales of terror
Publisher
TGG Direct
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three stories adapted from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. In "Morella," a dying young woman tries to reconcile with her father, who has always blamed her for her mother's death during childbirth. In "The black cat," a man discovers his wife's affair and takes steps to remove his rival, only to have his wife's black cat reveal his evil deed. And In "The case of M. Valdemar," the dying M. Valdemar employs a hypnotist to put him in a trance and winds...
Author
Series
Route 66 volume 6
Language
English
Description
Old-time horror-movie icons Lon Chaney, Jr., Boris Karloff, and Peter Lorre reunite at a Chicago hotel to plan a horror TV show for a new generation.
18) Beat the Devil
Author
Language
English
Description
Writer/Director John Huston's Beat the Devil stars Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther, the front man for a group of swindlers stranded in an Italian port town, scheming to take ownership of uranium-rich land in Africa. Also stranded is a naive British couple, Mr. and Mrs. Chelm (Edward Underdown and Jennifer Jones). Flirtations and a web of lies ensue among the group, testing romantic loyalty and allegiances among them. The last of six collaborations...
19) The big circus
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Flamboyant circus owner "Hank Whiting "is in trouble. His enterprise is in need of a cash injection from the bank who only agree to a loan on the condition their employee "Randy Sherman " goes along to keep an eye on proceedings. When he engages a high powered PR woman, tension develops between the outsiders and the circus hard core. That is not the end of it however--there is sabotage to contend with, rain washes away much of the season, and a fatality...