After a strange musical into with Kay Kyser that lasts about 5 min, the meat of the movie starts. Kay Kyser and his orchestra are invited to a birthday party where nefarious forces are trying to kill the heiress before she inherits it all. (Comedy, Musical, Mystery)
Tag: Peter Lorre
A Grave Comedy
Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Vincent Price behind the scenes of A Comedy of Terrors.
Bela, Peter and Boris Walk into a Room…
Promotional shot of Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff for RKO’s 1940 film You’ll Find Out (Here Come the Boogie Men)
Comedy of Terrors
Two unscrupulous undertakers (Vincent Price & Peter Lorre) find they are about to be evicted by their landlord (Basil Rathbone) for being a year late on rent. In order to drum up business, the dastardly duo sneak into the house of a wealthy elderly man, but when the bill comes due, his young widow skips town with the inheritance. When they set out to repeat the process, they receive a message from the landlord that the money was due in the morning. So they set off to kill two birds with one pillow. Unfortunately the landlord is harder to kill than expected. Continue reading “Comedy of Terrors”
Rick’s Café Americain, 1942
In my attempt to reconstruct the floor plan of Rick’s Café Americain, from the movie Casablanca, I discovered that there were two separate sets in which the scenes were filmed, also there were certain areas that just did not exist because of the way the set was designed (as seen in the photos below), thus making an exact replica impossible. As far as I could tell the gambling hall was just beyond the bar, as this was the direction the police went and Signor Ugarte (Peter Lorre) came from (22:16), though watching the people in the restaurant proper turned after the gunshot (22:14) would make you think it was the opposite direction. I have done my best to fit all the pieces together in the most logical placement. Probably the best overall view of the café was between the 6:45 and 7:05 markers of the film. Continue reading “Rick’s Café Americain, 1942”
Casablanca, 1942
Alice Cooper’s Greatest Hits, 1977
Just posting this fantastic cover
Alice Cooper’s Greatest Hits gate-fold cover art was designed by Ernie Cefalu and features a sepia-toned Drew Struzan illustration consisting of the Alice Cooper band and various movie stars of the silver screen from the 1920s & 1930s, gathered in front of “Big Al’s” garage.
Seen from left to right: Humphrey Bogart, Robert Taylor, Clark Gable, Edward G. Robinson, William Powell, Jean Harlow, Peter Lorre, St. Valentine’s Day Massacre scene (top), Alice Cooper band members (Glen Buxton, Dennis Dunaway, Alice Cooper, Michael Bruce, Neal Smith), Groucho Marx