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Peter Lorre on the set of M 1930-2008 Framed Print
by David Lee Guss
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Peter Lorre on the set of M 1930-2008 framed print by David Lee Guss. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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The Hungarian born Peter Lorre (1904-1964) gives a career defining performance, as the child murderer, in this German made proto-film noir directed... more
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The Hungarian born Peter Lorre (1904-1964) gives a career defining performance, as the child murderer, in this German made proto-film noir directed by Fritz Lang.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIj3Bk0bhL8&feature=search
Fritz Lang discusses "M."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT_s_6F5hCc&feature=related
Guns and death are a large part of film noir, a term coined by French critics when they had an opportunity to finally watch a flood of American films denied them by their Nazi occupiers in WW2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgcORWT-gXs&NR=1
{NOTE: In the twilight of the silent film era (1927) the thriving German film industry released "Berlin: Symphony of a Great City;" a visual record of a vital metropolis poised between two world wars.
A lovely print of this brilliantly photographed and edited film can be seen in the Internet Archive site.
Movie houses featuring Tom Mix and Charlie Chaplin are briefly glimpse...
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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