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Welcome to the Wednesday edition of SDA Late Nite Radio . Tonight we feature a cartoon mash-up in which the audio of Peter Lorre's monologue in Fritz Lang's 1931 film M is completely mis-translated and the resulting subtitles added to an old episode of Quick Draw McGraw .

Mabuse. Ma-boo-zah. Say the word with me. Ma-boo-zah. Sinister, isn't it? When Norbert Jacques created the Dr.

More noir: the Columbia Noir Classics on DVD 0 After writing the onerous article on " Boston Noir " and attending the "Boston Noir" book launch/reading at the Boston Book Festival I thought I'd fill in the gaps in my noir knowledge by checking out the Columbia Film Noir Classics I box set of five 50s B-ish films from that genre, to be released by ...

DVD collections continues to wash up on video shelves everywhere. Last year, the super-studio, in partnership with Warner Brothers, introduced these budget DVD compilations that contain some of the most renowned films of all-time. All of the titles have been available individually, some for quite a while.

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Share + Oct 5, 2009 7:39 am US/Central WESTMONT, Ill. 1 of 1 Commentator Erin Andrews of ESPN reports from the sidelines as the University of Miami Hurricanes host the Texas A&M Aggies at the Orange Bowl on September 20, 2007 in Miami, Florida.

Beyond its generic, forgettable title, "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" feels like some throwaway 1980s TV movie, with its implausible premise, dizzying twists, cheesy montages and melodramatic score.

In February, Warner Home Video and Turner Classics started releasing collections of films for movie lovers.

WHEN Edward M. Kennedy hit the presidential campaign trail in Iowa in 2003 on behalf of his fellow Massachusetts senator, John Kerry , nothing delighted Mr.

Roger Ebert once said of "Casablanca," "If ever there was a time when they decide that some movies should be spelled with an upper-case M, 'Casablanca' should be voted first on the list of Movies." The common rationale for this is simple.

Fritz Lang's M is the jewel of Peter Lorre's oeuvre, a hauntingly expressive performance as murderer and pedophile Hans Beckert.

Which local authors will Malaysian readers choose as the best this year? HAVE you checked out the books nominated for the Popular-Star Readers' Choice Awards 2009, yet? You have less than two weeks to read your way through those best-selling 20 books so you can agree or disagree with the judges' choices slated.

Lenny Bruce was a comedian before he was a chapter in the history of American obscenity law.

THE local English language publishing industry has been bubbling over with creativity of late, providing high quality fodder for the second Popular-Star Readers Choice Awards organised by Popular Book Co Sdn Bhd and Star Publications .

Shortly before WWII, renowned British game hunter Captain Alan Thorndike is caught attempting to shoot Adolph Hitler.

Body & Soul Say what you will about Body & Soul being sponsored by the "real beauty" hucksters at Dove - it's unlikely that director Judith Thompson could have assembled her disparate group of performers without the power of her sponsor's mass-market reach.

He was born Lszl Lowenstein in Rosenberg, Hungary. Briefly a bank clerk before studying acting in Vienna and then performing throughout the German-speaking world, the 5ft 3in, saucer-eyed Lorre found enduring fame in Berlin under the auspices of two of Weimar's greatest artists.

Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's 20th Century * Spoleto Festival USA * $32 * 1 hour 40 mins.

Jack Terricloth specializes in absorbing entertainments. The lead vocalist's famed World/Inferno Friendship Society punk group brings its multi-media spectacle "Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's 20th Century" to the Emmett Robinson Theatre for a five-day Spoleto Festival run beginning tonight.

It's ironic that Peter Lorre turned down offers to play Hamlet. He feared career suicide, being typecast as the deranged dark prince.