Great oldie with Peter Lorre
586877
Good quality for old movie. Enjoyed watching Peter Lorre play a good character.
134712
My wife and I have been Terry Pratchett fans for many years and own many of his books.  We enjoy reading them to each other on long car trips.  We love the mix of humor and fantasy that he brings to every selection.  It's been fun watching his books brought to life on the big screen.  The Color of Money was entertaining but ultimately they didn't have the budget to pull off the book.  Going Postal however, is pretty true to the book and the acting is first rate.  It is an exceptionally fun movie for any fans of Terry Pratchett and I highly recommend it.
2725135
Excellent.  Great memories of a terrific TV series!  But Peter Graves does make a much better IMF leader.
887138
This B & W movie of "The Mummy" with Boris Karloff is a magnificent example of how children can be scared out of their pants and utterly delighted at the same time.  I saw the movie a couple of times as a kid and several more times as an adult.  Now that I am fast approaching retirement age, I find that it is just as entertaining as it was 50 years ago.  The makeup on Mr. Karloff is utterly believable and, if his body position when he walks appears a little silly, so what?  It is the rest of the time that the mummy sends chills down your back.  The flashbacks are great and give us an understanding of his unending search for his lost love, the princess, now embodied in the movie's heroine in this century (or was it last century?).

Regardless of the few minor imperfections in this original version of "The Mummy", I found it to be just as entertaining as it was when I first saw it and even spookier in black and white that it is in the modern color version.  No one will ever beat Boris Karloff in this role.  He lends just the right amounts of pathos and evil, so that you find yourself wishing he could recover his lost love, just don't let her be the heroine of this particular movie because she is already taken.

Buy it, keep it, watch it periodically and, when you get to be my age, I hope you will enjoy it just as much as I have.
751556
This is a great little story by an old master -- the Austrian writer, Stefan Zweig. It was written at the time that Hitler was ascendant in Germany. While it is not a war story, the looming cataclysm hovers in the background. It takes place in the first class section of an ocean liner. If you like viewing old black and white ocean liner movies from the 1930s and 1940s, you will love the ambience created in the story. The chief protagonist is a businessman who some time earlier was arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo for a period of one year. He was never physically tortured, but was psychologically stretched to the limits. In order to survive the ordeal, he taught himself chess from a chess book he lifted from one of his interrogators. He memorized the moves of all 150 grand tournament games contained in the book, which serves him well when he comes up a bona fide grand master on the ocean liner. As with all Zweig stories, character development is first rate.
3144457
Great old sitcom from the late 50's.  One of the episodes even includes Campbell soup commercials (kind of surprising).  Great old show.  Paul Petersen (Jeff in the show) is my age.  We're 70!
3741784
Great old movie with two of my favorite actors. I would have never thought of pairing James Stewart with Ginger, but it's a great match! Hilarious scenes, especially the one with Ginger and Beulah Bondi!
1913119
My wife loves this old black & white "B" movies... she has a collection of all the Sherlock Holmes... Peter Lorre ....Bela Lugosi, even a set of mysteries that stars Lloyd Nolan which I even enjoy... If it's old and it's in black and white they she has it
1276835
The Mr. Moto series is an excellent group of adventure/detective movies. Peter Lorre's characterization as Mr. Moto and a fine supporting cast elevates these movies above the usual "B" detective movies.

The restoration of these films by Twentieth Century Fox is excellent. The picture quality of this set(and its companion set) are far superior to the public domain versions of these films.

Please consider two (2) other related purchases (not to mention to other volume of Mr. Moto films) to become an expert fan of Mr. Moto and Peter Lorre. Howard Berlin has written a concise and well-organized overview of the Mr. Moto series, The Complete Mr. Moto Phile: A Casebook. This softcover book is available for approximately $[...] from Amazon.com.  Stephen Youngkin has written a book on Peter Lorre, The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre. Youngkin's book is one of the most comprehensive and best researched biographes of a Hollywood star - it is a a treasure trove of information about Peter Lorre. This hardcover book is available for approximately [...]from Amazon.com. I gained a greater appreciation for Peter Lorre's acting talents in the Mr. Moto series after I read both of these books. Please review the Amazon.com reviews for these books!

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909983
Another great old movie.  Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews did outstanding jobs playing their parts in this thriller.  Well worth the time to sit and watch - maybe more than once.
3348285
As with all of the Twilight Zones, this stands the test of time well. Rod Serling definitely took after Alfred Hitchcock, but made his show still yet unique. Great work from a great written who died way before his time. Probably has something to do with the smoking everytime you see him.
3249954
Watched this movie as a kid and brings back great memories , Don Knots was a great American and a great actor very funny . This is an excellent movie
3594912
I really did enjoy this movie. I had read the book a long time ago and was delighted to view the movie today. It was great. Maureen O'Hara was beautiful as usual and did a great job of acting in this movie. I thought the settings were interesting and the costuming was good, too. I am really a fan of old movies and especially Maureen O'Hara and Alfred Hitchcock, too. It was a pleasant way to spend a little time today. Great movie.
3667267
Nazi fifth columnists, led by sinister, sadistic Peter Lorre as Pepi, are infiltrating a city, and big-time gambler Humphrey Bogart is there to weed them out. When a popular baker is found murdered, Bogart investigates. He's led to a warehouse and discovers a room filled with Nazi paraphernalia and a book that explains what happened to the baker (he also gets a lot of help from Kaaren Verne, who has been forced to play along with the Nazis). In a fiery climax, while a motorboat packed with explosives is being directed toward a battleship to blow it up, Bogart takes control, sees Lorre get killed, and then steers the boat away from the ship before diving overboard to safety. He gets a hero's welcome, of course, and Verne. Lorre is excellent as the evil Pepi, killing at will and at another point smashing the fingers of a guy after losing his temper. There are a couple too many chase scenes, so that the picture seems to go on too long - probably too long by 10 minutes. Seeing Nazi fifth columnists meet their doom, however, was just what 1942 audiences wanted. Incidentally, Jackie Gleason and Phil Silvers make appearances in small roles. A good one, worth a watch.
596488
great classics...a twofer with an intro by Robert Osborne. Very enjoyable
4248592
I remembered this movie from when I was young and first married.  I'm a big fan of both Jimmy Stewart and Maureen O'Hara.  We have a large family that has vacationed together in the past and still do, so much of it rings a bell.
4316176
This book is great fun if you are a fan of books of the golden age
of spy novels, extending roughly from Eric ambler through the end
the cold war.

This pastiche through quotes, characters and style uses the
"tradecraft" and techniques of these books to guide our hero through
today's Europe on an entertaining chase.

When the plot brings back old techniques from masters of spy
literature you are engulfed in nostalgia for the classic books you
read years ago when they were a best sellers.  The style also
captures the era, and subtle reuses of literary devices make you
remember and chuckle.

As he describes the events, characters, and procedures of the books
the "handler" uses to manipulate our hero it also becomes book
length review of the classics of the genre, as well as a list of 222
such books in the most useful appendix.  It has provided me
with a list of books I want to read or re-read from that era, I
hope they are still around at Amazon and have been "Kindlized".
Readers, be sure and check the wonderful Edwin Lemaster books
on Amazon.

So, why not 5 stars? Only 4 because the lead characters, father,
son, girl-friend and villain are all pretty anodyne and hard to
care much about. Unlike, say Le Carre's Smiley, who I continue to
empathize with 30 some years after he "retired".