PETER LORRE & VIRGINIA FIELD IN 'MR. MOTO'S LAST WARNING'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7xpJw7-HNfqc_jpowHDjTTgHJ4tloyyPtdiRa0MofNeX2s50c3iqj8H3fVkSROC5SUAEcqWS9snlow3G8im3D_QI5JS7HjU8kG9OSRCe6L0sfrQDVzoUBHnXXYdHWSMR1HqQ8IY1P7mSo2YPpnR094_hIe6uGCW2nQZDkNeRZV8Ue0WPtDAG3tlmkq-M8/s1660/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-18%20at%2011.11.16%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="934" data-original-width="1660" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7xpJw7-HNfqc_jpowHDjTTgHJ4tloyyPtdiRa0MofNeX2s50c3iqj8H3fVkSROC5SUAEcqWS9snlow3G8im3D_QI5JS7HjU8kG9OSRCe6L0sfrQDVzoUBHnXXYdHWSMR1HqQ8IY1P7mSo2YPpnR094_hIe6uGCW2nQZDkNeRZV8Ue0WPtDAG3tlmkq-M8/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-18%20at%2011.11.16%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Virginia Field in MR. MOTO'S LAST WARNING Year: 1938 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The best MR. MOTO film because LAST WARNING has the most intriguing villains and the coolest, darkest, murkiest locations: as the original MALTESE FALCON actor Sam Spade actor Ricardo Cortez covers as a ventriloquist, doing his dummy routine in a crowded Egyptian theater that includes dogs jumping through hoops, and a juggling clown...<br><br>Who turns out to be Peter Lorre's titular character in one of several disguises (while doing the kind of deliberately cliche Chinese servant imitation to trick the haughty whites): once backstage, he quickly figures out the other antagonist agents, including future British legend George Sanders with a twisty little mustache, and the most effective semi-moll in any MOTO vehicle...</p><p><span></span></p>

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PETER LORRE & VIRGINIA FIELD IN 'MR. MOTO'S LAST WARNING'

Virginia Field in MR. MOTO'S LAST WARNING Year: 1938 Rating: **** The best MR. MOTO film because LAST WARNING has the most intriguing vi...

PETER SELLERS TAKES 'A SHOT IN THE DARK' WITH ELKE SOMMER

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpU4m0d1C-2dTSYR7ihfRIKU8oinM_cASIJGdraZkAIixqVShOkmEG2pyZahY924JnrCo0ezyg2Zio18r_XuoHnDC2YCarLM5YsEJrkycY4h9rcLOQFXMb52jV3b4-icy274P_KiOlxgizwRKJh6yoED5l5FAQMSrpXv25h-q1K8EX7v8aYSArAuW5NXre/s2060/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-19%20at%206.34.09%20AM%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1174" data-original-width="2060" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpU4m0d1C-2dTSYR7ihfRIKU8oinM_cASIJGdraZkAIixqVShOkmEG2pyZahY924JnrCo0ezyg2Zio18r_XuoHnDC2YCarLM5YsEJrkycY4h9rcLOQFXMb52jV3b4-icy274P_KiOlxgizwRKJh6yoED5l5FAQMSrpXv25h-q1K8EX7v8aYSArAuW5NXre/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-19%20at%206.34.09%20AM%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: A SHOT IN THE DARK Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While Inspector Clouseau was dropped into the romantic-comedy-heist <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/06/OGPP.html">THE PINK PANTHER</a> with Peter Sellers stealing the movie from lead actor David Niven, the sequel...where he's finally the central character... has him crashing what's an otherwise serious stage-adapted murder-mystery/whodunnit... <br><br>Yet there's a romantic-comedy element here too, with Sellers helping adorable millionaire's maid, Elke Sommer, seeming guilty beyond belief in the classic noir fashion: not only winding up with a smoking gun and a dead body, but with another dead body and a bloody knife... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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PETER SELLERS TAKES 'A SHOT IN THE DARK' WITH ELKE SOMMER

Title: A SHOT IN THE DARK Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 While Inspector Clouseau was dropped into the romantic-comedy-heist THE PINK PANTHER wi...

DANA ANDREWS & MÄRTA TORÉN COVER 'ASSIGNMENT: PARIS'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrR1G9Ql10OAVEM60JoGxXjQG5CVyww0DYNPI_qH776Lbe4mM7Mi08H4qekmwNjCsVyOCWyrLWRRqRrygya9nyGZtlZ1HrZEyw54gpcB_cLAbgK9o48V3Q_3pYt28dMnn-m84NscZGI9Obv-FjHO7y3ADJq4T3TefVeyLXzW4cbnMUEQv9DbNaptPD2Q/s400/Screen%20Shot%202021-05-16%20at%204.34.07%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="400" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrR1G9Ql10OAVEM60JoGxXjQG5CVyww0DYNPI_qH776Lbe4mM7Mi08H4qekmwNjCsVyOCWyrLWRRqRrygya9nyGZtlZ1HrZEyw54gpcB_cLAbgK9o48V3Q_3pYt28dMnn-m84NscZGI9Obv-FjHO7y3ADJq4T3TefVeyLXzW4cbnMUEQv9DbNaptPD2Q/s320/Screen%20Shot%202021-05-16%20at%204.34.07%20PM.jpeg" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Assignment: Paris Year: 1952 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>George Sanders, the classy, underrated and underused British actor who all but stole Alfred Hitchcock's FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT despite being third billed, is number three again and has plenty of time to stand out in the third act...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p>When mainline Dana Andrews, again playing a reporter like in another correspondent, BERLIN CORRESPONDENT, gets captured illegally, held hostage and whose enemies, in this case communist Yugo, winds up altering his voice, another BERLIN trait only more realistic as it's a far better picture... </p><p></p><p>And while some scenes aren't extremely thrilling for a Cold War thriller, there's good use of suspense, whenever needed... </p><p>Plus romance as Andrews puts on his kind of breezy, second-hand charm from the 1950's when, during this Lost Decade of drinking, he'd phone in some performances, even in decent films, as, for what's really a programmer, ASSIGNMENT: PARIS is... also starring love-interest ingenue Märta Torén, who co-starred with Dana in SWORD IN THE DESERT, and the cult noir starlet Audrey Totter, brooding around the Paris newspaper office jealous about Torén, two-fold. </p><p><span></span></p>

audrey totter, cold war, dana andrews, fifties, film noir or melodrama, george sanders, märta torén, thriller

DANA ANDREWS & MÄRTA TORÉN COVER 'ASSIGNMENT: PARIS'

Assignment: Paris Year: 1952 Rates: ***1/2 George Sanders, the classy, underrated and underused British actor who all but stole Alfred Hitch...

ALFRED HITCHFORK'S 'FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT' WITH JOEL MCCREA

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHa2YQQSnThq2fSWSAnEYi6zlLXppCNav0pNDg9KqrCs5T9r72sEF2fID6jCGQDixeazb11qkp6HQzQqbRtb2A5fx9hB-pRfBj_Wg4kFCt3J1hxb-S3npmW5wos4ebauKtMvAqoQ9smtSV/s1600/HALFSHEET127-2.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="500" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHa2YQQSnThq2fSWSAnEYi6zlLXppCNav0pNDg9KqrCs5T9r72sEF2fID6jCGQDixeazb11qkp6HQzQqbRtb2A5fx9hB-pRfBj_Wg4kFCt3J1hxb-S3npmW5wos4ebauKtMvAqoQ9smtSV/s400/HALFSHEET127-2.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Formerly doubled w/ <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/02/berlinC.html">Berlin Correspondent</a> Foreign YEAR: 1940</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Instead of gentle giant Gary Cooper, who was director Alfred Hitchock's original choice, and an actor most directors were in love with, it's lanky Joel McCrea who intrepidly traipses around Europe, specifically Holland and London, in search of an important man who's memorized what would possibly end the looming Second World War...<br> <br> Had Cooper played New York reporter John Jones (using a heroic pseudonym), he'd probably be a lot more serious and deadpan within this extremely important, perilous assignment/situation compared to McCrea, who, dapper and always joking around no matter how dangerous the risks, cruises passively shotgun in a vehicle driven completely by the adventure at hand, which means lots more than the character: he's as a proverbial kite is to the breeze, and extremely breezy at that.<br>

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ALFRED HITCHFORK'S 'FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT' WITH JOEL MCCREA

Formerly doubled w/ Berlin Correspondent Foreign YEAR: 1940 Instead of gentle giant Gary Cooper, who was director Alfred Hitchock'...

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'FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT' HAS RELOCATED

Martin Kosleck as Tramp CLICK HERE TO THE NEW HOME OF 'FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT'