Tuesday, February 22, 2011
oldhollywood: Peter Lorre in M (1931, dir. Fritz Lang) Entire film can be seen on Internet Archive here. “My trouble is that I try to cover a part entirely. When you do there’s the danger that the patron will leave the theatre feeling that you are so perfectly suited to the character he has just seen that he can’t imagine you in any other part. Mothers with children ran from me in the street. Terrible letters came to me. Letters came from strange people; people who I never believed lived in the world; depraved and disturbed minds, thinking they saw in me the perfect companion, a fellow psychopathic. A success can be too great, I tell you.” -Lorre, on playing the role of compulsive child murderer, Hans Becker, in M Though it was creepy, it was still a good movie!

oldhollywood:

Peter Lorre in M (1931, dir. Fritz Lang) Entire film can be seen on Internet Archive here.

“My trouble is that I try to cover a part entirely. When you do there’s the danger that the patron will leave the theatre feeling that you are so perfectly suited to the character he has just seen that he can’t imagine you in any other part. Mothers with children ran from me in the street. Terrible letters came to me. Letters came from strange people; people who I never believed lived in the world; depraved and disturbed minds, thinking they saw in me the perfect companion, a fellow psychopathic. A success can be too great, I tell you.”

-Lorre, on playing the role of compulsive child murderer, Hans Becker, in M

Though it was creepy, it was still a good movie!

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  7. scotomisation reblogged this from oldhollywood and added:
    Internet Archive here.
  8. vron8891 reblogged this from oldhollywood and added:
    Though it was creepy, it was still
  9. thepinkbyrd reblogged this from oldhollywood and added:
    LOVE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH.
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    Sometimes actors...good, people actually believe they are
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    I have the graphic novel version too. It’s beautiful.
  15. sassywater reblogged this from aligrape and added:
    I remember watching this in high school. Intense.
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    this movie, man. His monologue at...end is fantastic.
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  28. lackadaisicallethargy reblogged this from oldhollywood and added:
    So true! The creepier