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May 28, 2025
The Lost One:
A Life of
Peter Lorre
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Table
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Contents
Excerpt:
Chapter 3
Peter Lorre’s
Credits
(A Sample)
Critics Are
Saying. . .
Interview
With
The Author
What's New!
World/Inferno
Friendship
Society
Peter Lorre:
The Man,
The Actor
Biographical
Sketch
Photo Album
Poster Art
FAQ
DVD — VHS
Radio Programs
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Peter Lorre in a Warner Bros. publicity still for The Mask of Dimitrios (1944). |
May 28, 2025:
- Coming soon – A new look for the Lost One website! New pages, new photos, new information about Peter Lorre’s work on DVD and Blu-ray.
June 10, 2011:
- The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre is now available on the Kindle through Amazon and the Nook through Barnes & Noble bookstores.
Dec. 15, 2010:
- Photo Album — A photographic essay on Peter Lorre as “Professor Sturm” in the 1936 film Nancy Steele is Missing, 20th Century-Fox.
June 26, 2009:
- Photo Album — Rare candids related to Der Verlorene (1951), the only film Peter Lorre directed and co-wrote.
- DVD and VHS — You’ll Find Out (1940) is now available for pre-release order through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other on-line merchants.
May 8, 2009:
- Critics Are Saying. . . — Cinema Retro reviews The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre.
- World/Inferno Friendship Society — Play-dates in Charleston, SC, have been added.
- Photo Album — Peter Lorre and Victor McLaglen on the set of Nancy Steele is Missing (1937).
- DVD and VHS — You’ll Find Out (1940) will be coming to DVD in October, 2009.
Nov. 9, 2008:
- The Lost One has a new design — a new color scheme and banners.
- World/Inferno Friendship Society — A new section about the group and their concert tribute to Peter Lorre, Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre’s 20th Century.
- Photo Album — Cats, Bogie and Bacall, Karen Verne, Beat the Devil, Lorre’s Star on the Walk of Fame.
- Frequently Asked Questions — How many films did Peter Lorre make with Sydney Greenstreet?
- DVD and VHS — Mr. District Attorney (1941) and Hollywood Canteen (1944) come to DVD.
- Radio Programs — A new section about Peter Lorre on radio.
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.