The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre: The Man, The Actor
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Global Warming Edition)
Fox Home Entertainment announces a new DVD
edition of the 1961 Irwin Allen science-fiction film Voyage
to the Bottom of the Sea (20th Century-Fox), starring
Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lorre, Barbara Eden, Joan Fontaine, Michael
Ansara, and Frankie Avalon.
Region 1 only
Date – June 5, 2007
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The Extras:
- Audio commentary by Tim Colliver, author of Seaview:
The Making of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1992)
- Interview with Barbara Eden, including comments on working
with director Irwin Allen, Peter Lorre, Walter Pidgeon, and other
castmates.
- Production art and stills
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea comic book
- Collectables
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- Production Code documents
- Video and stills of original props: submarine Seaview,
mini-sub miniature, torpedo rack, sea mine
- Original theatrical trailer
- Original Exhibitor’s Campaign Manual
- Poster and lobby card gallery
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Vincent Price: MGM Scream Legends Collection
MGM presents a 5-disc double-sided collection
of seven Vincent Price horror films from the 1960s and 1970s.
Tales of Terror
(AIP, 1962), included in this box-set, was the first of three horror
films Price made with Peter Lorre, who co-stars in the middle tale,
“The Black Cat”, as “Montressor
Herringbone”.
Region 1 only
Date – September 11, 2007
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The Films:
- Tales of
Terror (1962) – With Price, Peter
Lorre, Basil Rathbone.
- Twice-Told Tales (1964)
– With Price, Sebastian Cabot, Beverly Garland.
- The Abominable Dr. Phibes
(1971) – With Price, Joseph Cotton, Terry-Thomas, Virginia
North.
- Dr. Phibes Rises Again! (1972)
– with Price, Robert Quarry, Peter Jeffrey.
- Theater of Blood (1972)
– with Price, Diana Rigg, Coral Browne.
- Madhouse (1974) – With
Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry.
- Witchfinder General (1968)
– Also known as The Conqueror Worm,
with Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies.
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The Extras:
- Audio commentary on Witchfinder General, with
producer Philip Waddilove and actor Ian Ogilvy
- Original documentaries – Witchfinder General:
Michael Reeves’ Horror Classic
- Vincent Price: Renaissance Man
- The Art of Fear
- Working with Vincent Price
- Original theatrical trailer for each film
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The Frankie & Annette MGM Movie Legends Collection
From 1963 to 1965, Frankie Avalon and Annette
Funicello co-starred in a series of five summertime “beach
party” movies for American International Pictures, with plenty
of music, dancing, surfing – and a “guest appearance”
from a classic film star in the AIP stock company.
In 1964, Peter Lorre took a turn in
Muscle Beach Party, which was in
release at the very time newspapers were running the obituary
announcing his passing.
MGM Home Entertainment presents a 4-disc DVD box-set
of eight films starring Frankie and Annette – together and
separately – from AIP.
Region 1 only
Date – July 10, 2007
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The Films:
- Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
– #4 in the series, with Frankie & Annette and the
Beach Party regulars.
- How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
(1965) – #5 and the last in the series, with Frankie &
Annette and the Beach Party regulars.
- Beach Party (1963) –
The first in the series, with Frankie & Annette, the Beach
Party gang, and guest Vincent Price.
- Bikini Beach (1964) –
#3 in the series, with Frankie & Annette, the Beach Party
regulars, and guest Boris Karloff.
- Fireball 500 (1966) –
A musical comedy starring Frankie & Annette and set in
the world of racing.
- Thunder Alley (1967) –
An action-drama starring Annette, paired up with Warren Berlinger.
- Muscle Beach
Party (1964) – With Frankie &
Annette, the Beach Party regulars, and a cameo by Peter Lorre
as “Mr. Strangdour”.
- Ski Party (1965) – A
comedy with Frankie swapping sand and surfboards for snow
and skis – and Annette for Deborah Whalley.
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The Extras:
- Original theatrical trailer for each film
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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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